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hello, im helping my friend set up his A&H GL4000 and GL4 consoles with mute automation. I was searching for software to send midi cues to the mixers, when I stumbled upon your site, which is interesting because he uses the standard version of your software in his rig.

I would like to know if the midi functions in the proffesional version support sending the following data:

for mute on: 91 CC 3FH where CC is the channel on the console
for mute on: 91 CC 7FH where CC is the channel on the console

I believe that those commands are synonomus for a standard command, I just dont know which.

can your pro software do this, and will it be easy, or will I have to type 91 CC 3FH into all of the cues? If not, do you have any other recomendations?

thank you.

Yes, the professional version of SCS can send your mute off (91 CC 3FH) and mute on (91 CC 7FH) messages. In MIDI terminology these are 'Note On' messages, so you would create a MIDI Send cue specifying:

MIDI Message Type: Note ON
Channel: Your console MIDI channel + 1
Note #: Your console channel + 1
Velocity: 3FH for mute off, or 7FH for mute on

The business of adding 1 to the channel numbers is due to the GL4000 starting channel numbers at 1 instead of 0. I have had requests for an option to change the base from 0 to 1, so that's on the list of things to do.

From the last paragraph in your posting, do you want to include a mute off command as an integral part of every cue (or most cues)? There's no generic 'mute off' feature in SCS, so your best option would be to set up one cue as required, including the mute off MIDI Send, and then copy and paste that cue to create other cues.

Just another suggestion. I used SCS with a musical at Easter where we had a GL4000, and we ran SCS from the mixer. What we did was to store snapshots in the mixer of all the channel mute settings, etc, and set corresponding SCS cue numbers to match the snapshot numbers. EG SCS cue MC1 was the cue we wanted to play when snapshot #1 was selected.

We then setup SCS to 'Control cues by MIDI input messages', 'Program /Controller Change', 'Control method ETC AB', and selected the appropriate MIDI channel. On selecting a snapshot number on the GL4000, if there was a corresponding SCS cue then that cue fired without any separate action required on the SCS PC.