Turning off device groups in 5.0.3

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Turning off device groups in 5.0.3

Post by StSt » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:31 pm

So I pulled the Radio Gaga device group on to an audio track last night, and I really like the effect, but I'd like to be able to turn it on and off quickly while I play at a gig. There seems to be no way to turn the entire group off an on in one step, since there are several sub-devices involved, and each needs to be turned off individually for the entire group to be out of the chain.

Is there some workaround here? I'm not very good with MIDI, so I haven't yet tried programming one button on a MIDI device to turn off all the sub-devices simultaneously, and I'd like to be able to find another method if possible.

Any help would be greatly appreciated, thanks very much.

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Post by hoffman2k » Fri Dec 30, 2005 3:42 pm

alt-click the on / off button of a group.

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Aha! And now...

Post by StSt » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:32 pm

Man, that's great. Thanks a lot. Is there some way to map an alt-click to either a key on the computer keyboard or to a button on a MIDI device? I'm trying to avoid having to skip around through screens and levels while playing a gig, I prefer (if possible) to just assign a key or button and use that.

Thanks again for the help,

StSt

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Post by abletoff » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:41 pm

bome's miditranslator

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Post by StSt » Fri Dec 30, 2005 4:54 pm

Is that similiar/the same/different from Midi-Ox?

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Post by djsynchro » Fri Dec 30, 2005 8:00 pm

You could probably do it with Autohotkey it's free
www.autohotkey.com
:D

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Post by StSt » Sat Dec 31, 2005 7:42 pm

Thanks for the help, everyone. Much appreciated. It looks like I'm going to have to bite the bullet and learn some sort of new programming language (MIDI, Autohotkey, whatever) to deal with this issue. I was hoping to save my fat butt some mental effort, but no luck. It will be a learning experience, I'm sure.

Thanks for the help,

St.

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Post by grfld » Sun Jan 01, 2006 10:24 pm

djsynchro wrote:You could probably do it with Autohotkey it's free
www.autohotkey.com
:D
Synchro, i think you must be infected by a virus. And i know it's name: Autohotkey! :lol:

x/grfld

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