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Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

Posted: Fri Sep 25, 2015 4:22 pm
by jcarlson1701
I have a show that has several hot key (toggle) sound bytes. I'd like to be able to activate these using the note on/off pads on my Akai MPD32 as opposed to using the computer keyboard. I tried doing this by creating a hot key toggle cue, assigning the hot key and then entered a value in the midi/dmx cue field (ex: hot key "A" midi value "1", hot key "B", midi value "2", etc...) this unfortunately didn't work. I hit The corresponding pads on the MPD32 and nothing happens. This works perfectly with my normal audio cues but not hot keys.

Is this possible in the current (11.4.03) version of SCS and I'm missing something? If not, I'd love to have this feature as it would make life so much easier to just hit the pads instead of hunting for keys.

Thanks - Josh

Re: Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 1:46 am
by Mike Daniell
If you don't need to activate these cues from the keyboard via keyboard hotkeys, have you tried changing the Activation Method to 'External (Toggle)'?

Re: Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 4:49 am
by jmgordon
Does this thread help?

Malcolm

Re: Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 11:44 am
by jcarlson1701
Hi Mike.

I did try External (Toggle) and that didn't work either...

Re: Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

Posted: Sat Sep 26, 2015 12:06 pm
by Mike Daniell
Seems strange that it would work with normal cues but not cues with activation methods of hotkey or external. I'll email you details of a tracing version to run.