Controlling outboard equipment with MIDI (slightly off topic)

[Weaselspoon]

Hello,

This is a bit off topic, but it's something I keep coming up against and I can't think of a more likely group to give me a good answer, even it's just a no.

tldr: Is there a good piece of software for controlling outboard devices over MIDI?

I've just borrowed a Behringer Flow 8 to see if it might be the small mixer that lives in my kit bag. The idea is it has faders for channels, but then an app to control pretty much everything else. I'm generally against this because one day that app won't be there. However, Behringer have made pretty much everything controllable over MIDI.

I've built Qlab cues for muting and unmuting channels and changing EQ levels, but what I'd really like to do is build a virtual desk with faders and knobs and buttons, each of which is sending specific MIDI commands. Ideally I'd like to be able to customise it myself (probably all I actually need is ten knobs for EQ on 2 channels because that's all I'd need to get at in a hurry).

I feel like there's probably some obvious software for this, but I can't find it. I've read through the cookbook pages on using the lighting dashboard, which I could definitely use, but isn't really the answer. I could put the specific things I want on faders, but then the mute button lives somewhere else (as an example). Mixing Station doesn't have the kind of customisation that I want. Am I about to learn Max/MSP? That seems like overkill.

Obviously, what I'd really like is Qlab to have something like carts that are the equivalent of EOS's Magic Sheets, where I can put an icon on a page and have it do any of the wonderful things Qlab can do. At some point I'll write that up properly as a feature request.

Thank you for any thoughts.

Robert

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Robert Wells

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[Jeremy Lee]

Max is great for this. But you should be able to do it with TouchOSC

 

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[Weaselspoon]

Thank you!

Of course it's TouchOSC. That's exactly the thing I was looking for, but I'd always overlooked it because, from the name, I presumed it was just for touchscreen devices. What a fool I have been.

This group never fails to help.

Cheers,

Robert

[Weaselspoon]

Just to conclude this, if anybody is working with a Behringer Flow 8, here's a TouchOSC file with everything MIDI controllable mapped. It presumes it's connected as MIDI patch 10.

Thanks,

Robert