Sending GO from Yamaha CL5 to QLab

[Dave]

I've got a show that has few sound effects and I'd like to send a MIDI GO to QLab to fire the cues. We have a user defined key that does that nicely on the CL5 but I want it to be imbedded in the CL5 Scene recall thus only one button needs to be focused on and I can tend to balance. We got the first Scene to fire but that's it all the others do nothing. We've read the CL5 reference guide MIDI chapter several times now and cannot figure how to make any of the subsequent scenes fire the GO, seems like all Yamaha want is to sell you the GPI (which we have but no cable to get to my FX machine. HELP!

[Rich Walsh]

I'm not familiar with that desk, but a quick skim of the manual reads as if the MIDI functionality is pretty much unchanged from the 01V96, if not the Promix 01… So – since you haven't explained what you have done – I'm going to assume you've set a user-defined key to increment the scene memories and have the default 1:1 mapping of program change to scene memory, with the console set to transmit program change? You've captured the program change sent by recalling the first scene, but subsequent scenes (that send different program change values) don't trigger QLab?

If so, then change Byte 1 of the relevant Musical MIDI Control preference from an integer to "any" – then, er, any program change value will trigger GO.

If that's not it then you may have to put your show control the other way round: have a user-defined key trigger QLab (discussed many times on this list: just pick a function you're not using, like an empty channel mute) and have QLab send program changes to the console when you need to also change scene.

Rich

[mk...@yourbcc.org]

I would love to know how you got this to work.  And are you using MIDI ports on the back of the CL5 or MIDI over ip. Please and thank you.

[Gunther J. Kibelkstis]

It is safer and more stable to use the midi connectors on the console. Use a MIDI to USB adapter.

[Lisa Woodward]

I don't know what the OP did, but this is how I do it.

1. Connect midi out on the CL5 to a USB audio interface that has a midi in. 

2. In the UDB page on the CL5, set a button to send a midi note. 

3. On QLab, go to the midi settings page. Check the "use musical" box. Set "GO" to capture. 

4. Hit the UDB on the CL5 and QLAB will capture the note. 

5. Profit.