Resolume midi out behaviour - most wanted

[FredW]

I'm willing to map Resolume with my midi controler, however, I'm struggling a bit into finding the midi out behaviours for the software.

What I'd like to get ( unsure new or existing ) is :
- when I change active clip, Resolume should send out all values for the mapped controls in the (new) clip
- when I change active layer, similar but at layer level
- when I change composition, it should send all mapped clips where a clip is loaded.
in order to get proper initialization of the controler upon "bank" changes.

Is there any location where all Midi Out Resolume functionalities would be listed

[Joris]

Resolume's midi out behaviour is basically 'what comes in, goes out'.

So when you have controls mapped to the active clip or layer, these will be sent out when you change the focus.

Sending out loaded clips in a decks is not supported. This is primarily because every controller has a different protocol for led colors, and we can't make separate implementations for every controller out there.

[FredW]

Yes, you're right, there was probably something wrong in my Midi translator mapping since the feedback on clip/layer switch was not working. It's now fixed for me. Thanks for the info.

Regarding the loaded clips, I see your point with midi standardization for that behaviour, tricky indeed. Looking around this point, I noticed that Resolume is not sending any signal ( reply with the mapped midi message ) when clip ends playing.

example : when I set a clip midi trigger to (xx) (yy) (7F), resolume does not send the (xx) (yy) (00) when the clip stops playing ( could be a one shot play, or due to clip switch ). It should also behave the same with clips preview. Eventually, this would allow building a loaded deck midi "ping" that could be used to serve my purpose ( with a midi translator help eg ). Resolume should therefore not reply anything when the selected deck is empty ( no start play, therefore no stop play ). I don't believe this would be outside the midi standards, but that's up to you .

I'll keep playing around with it to see if I can get something from it, at worst I think I can live without this "cherry on the cake"

[FredW]

In case someone would be interested, here is my Resolume Arena / APC40 midi map. It requires Bome Midi Translator to operate.

Features :

Clips management

- 8 clips per layer controlled by the clip launch pads,
- Preview for the clips triggrered by shift+clip launch pads,
- Column selection using the clip stop buttons on the APC,
- Layer selection using the APC scene launch button,
- Active Layer clips selections with the track buttons ( preview with shift ),
- Layer opacity with the volume buttons,

- A/B crossfader with the APC crossfader

General controls

- Composition selection ( tab ) is made using Record/Arm series of pushbuttons
- Solo/Cue using this set of pushbuttons on APC
- Mute using the Activation series of pushbuttons
- Stop all clips pushbutton does stop all clips
- shift+Activation places the relevant layer in A bank ( for Xfader )
- shift+Solo places the relevant layer in B bank ( for Xfader )

On the active layer :

- Track control is made of 8 rotative knobs, 4 banks of knobs are managed using the section function buttons ( Pan, Send A, Send B, Send C ). You can assign these to whatever you need, even if I intended these to operate on the active layer ( X,Y,Scale, effects controls ... ) . Knobs value is always synced with the Resolume values ( midi feedback in Bome registries )

On the active clip :

- Detail view selects loop mode
- Rec Quantization selects the loop reverse mode
- Mid overdub selects one shot mode
- Metronome selects one shot and pause mode
- Device control is made of 8 rotative knobs, 4 banks of knobs are managed using the section function buttons ( Clip/Track, Device On/Off, left and right arrows ). You can assign these to whatever you need, even if I intended these to operate on the active clip ( X,Y,Scale, effects controls ... ). Knobs value is always synced with the Resolume values ( midi feedback in Bome registries )

Connect APC40 midi out to Bome Midi translator, and Bome Midi out with Resolume. Don't connect directly APC40 and Resolume via midi, the Bome program does it all.

I'm just missing the capability ( see above ) to automatically "led" the pads on composition activation for each where a clip is loaded.

Let me know in case you found an issue or want to understand more about the mapping I've made.

Cheers,