[LAU] RME Multiface MIDI control

[Giso Grimm]

On 03/27/2012 02:42 PM, Michał Koziarski wrote:
> I'm trying to source a used Multiface 1 to use with HDSPe ExpressCard.
> The manual for the Multiface says that some functions can be contolled
> using any MIDI controller by sending appropriate note on/off messages.
> I'd like to be able to select mixer presets on the Multiface with some
> small box with buttons.
> 
> Does anyone know if this MIDI control works/can be set up on Linux?
> Anyone knows whether this control works entirely in hardware or needs
> software involvement to receive MIDI and control the dsp mixer?

Hi Michał,

the MIDI control of the HDSP mixer is only a software control (at least
in those cards I know: Multiface I, II, hdsp9632, hdsp9652); it is not
available through the "hdspmixer" software on Linux.

Workarounds can be to use tools like mididings and amixer to set up the
matrix gains on given program changes.


Giso


(btw, I will release a collection of tools for a Linux audio concert
performance within the next days, which contains mididings
configurations for almost exactly what you need, and also a MIDI CC
controllable matrix mixer for the hdsp cards).