RME HDSPe MADI [60/72] Simple midi control

User's Guide HDSPe MADI © RME

28.5 Simple MIDI Control

The stereo output faders (lowest row) which are set up as Monitor Main outputs in the Monitor

panel can also be controlled by the standard Control Change Volume via MIDI channel 1.

With this, the main volume of the HDSPe MADI is controllable from nearly any MIDI equipped

hardware device.

Even if you don't want to control all faders and pans, some buttons are highly desired to be

available in 'hardware'. These are mainly the Talkback and the Dim button, and the new moni-

toring options (listen to Phones submixes). Fortunately a Mackie Control compatible controller is

not required to control these buttons, as they are steered by simple Note On/Off commands on

MIDI channel 1.

The notes are (hex / decimal / keys):

Monitor Main: 3E / 62 / D 4

Dim: 5D / 93 / A 6

Mono: 2A / 42 / #F 2

Talkback: 5E / 94 / #A 6

Monitor Phones 1: 3F / 63 / #D 4

Monitor Phones 2: 40 / 64 / E 4

Monitor Phones 3: 41 / 65 / F 4

Preset 1: 36 / 54 / #F 3

Preset 2: 37 / 55 / G 3

Preset 3: 38 / 56 / #G 3

Preset 4: 39 / 57 / A 3

Preset 5: 3A / 58 / #A 3

Preset 6: 3B / 59 / B 3

Preset 7: 3C / 60 / C 4

Preset 8: 3D / 61 / #C 4

Note

: Switching off Mackie Protocol support in Preferences / Mackie Control Options will also

disable the above simple MIDI note commands, as they are part of the Mackie protocol.

Furthermore all faders of all three rows can be controlled via simple Control Change com-

mands. The format for the Control Change commands is:

The format for the Control Change commands is:

Bx yy zz

x = MIDI channel

yy = control number

zz = value

The first row in TotalMix is addressed by MIDI channels 1 up to 4, the middle row by channels 5

up to 8 and the bottom row by channels 9 up to 12.

16 Controller numbers are used: 102 up to 117 (= hex 66 up to 75). With these 16 Controllers (=

faders) and 4 MIDI channels each per row, up to 64 faders can be controlled per row (as re-

quired by the HDSPe MADI).