Using Midi note on/off to activate hot keys

[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

[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)'?

[jmgordon]

Does this thread help?

Malcolm

[jcarlson1701]

Hi Mike.

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

[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.