Hi,

I work a lot with SysEx, mainly because I develop editors for various MIDI devices.

I have my MRCC connected to my Mac through the PC USB port and 3 devices connected through the A, B and C USB ports. The devices are:
- Nektar Pacer 
- Waldorf Blofeld
- ASM Hydrasynth

No matter what I try, I can't get sysex messages being sent/received between my Mac and these devices. All other MIDI messages (CC, PC, Notes) go through fine. I checked my setup several times. I also checked that I do not have any filters or other configuration that could be the cause of this problem. I even tried with different cables!


If I connect these devices directly to my Mac, then no problem at all.


I also have a few devices that I don't have a problem with and can exchange messages with without any problem: Arturia Microfreak, Meris pedals.

What is the status of the sysex support in MRCC? Are there any limitations (message length, timing, ...) ?


I really would like to use the MRCC to connect all my hardware. But if sysex support is limited, I think I'll need to find another solution.

Thanks for any help!

I know there is a MOD available that allows transpose. This is a good solution if you just want to set it permanently and forget it. Changing when playing live is not easy/possible.

And this is precisely the idea to improve the function. It would be great if we could use some dedicated midi keyboard to change the transpose in live. Changing the height of the transpose would occur automatically after pressing one key from the keyboard.
I do not know how easier it would be to implement it - whether as a MOD for each OUT (with the dedication of settings per CHANNEL) or maybe as GLOBAL (but then we lose the possibility of precise setting per IN / OUT (we do not want to transpose, for example, drum track).

This type of transpose works very well, e.g. in Beatstep Pro, where the external keyboard can be changed quickly transpose. Unfortunately, Keystep Pro can no do this and transpose on Beatstep Pro and Keystep Pro is practically not possible on two devices at the same time. MRCC would be a brilliant solution in this case.

Can we have external MIDI control of clock 'START/STOP/CONT' ? 

When using a MIDI control surface which has transport controls, it would be great to be able to use them to enable/disable these functions on the MRCC.

In the MRCC video: "Conductive Labs MRCC Live Stream for Synthesthesia 2021", the guys talk about Screensaver Mode (1:12:30).

They say that the USB ports will be disabled if this mode is enabled, but they also say that the MRCC can be configured so that the USB ports remain active in Screensaver Mode. However, they don't say how to set up this configuration.

Can you enlighten us please?

Is it possible to delete a User patch, remove all its labels, I/O routing, etc. and have it resume a red label, instead of green?

Hi - can I re-state a request from another user?

I'd like to be able to remove the Factory Labels from the Labels list (whilst assigning labels).

Thanks.

Hi - the MRCC is fantastic!

Can you please extend the Assign Labels function to include the Remote7 I/O ?

Thanks, Mick

Here's a collection of tunes that I just released on Soundcloud. Tunes 3, 6 and 7 make extensive use of the NDLR.

https://soundcloud.com/user-233652849/se...n-a-vacuum

Cheers,

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OK. Today's issue.

I have 2 MRCCs. They are connected via the ethernet cable. Everything was working between the 2 last night.

Today, the indicator for the remote connection (the Y in the upper right) was lit up on MRCC#1, but grayed out on the #2. OK.....

not sure what was going on. Went in and toggled the remote settings (was set up to use the remote with new ports, but not sure how this should work with 2 MRCCs). After toggling this, the indicator is now bright.

But I still cannot make the remote connection. This is between din ports, and thus far this has seemed to work easily, but not today. I select the midi din in #1, and click the Y....but pressing the din out #9 does not do anything at all. I can press a lower numbered port (up through #5) but above that nothing at all happens. I'm at a loss. I'm confident by just doing this over and over and over, at some point it will work, but I'm getting more and more confident that sometimes the shit just does not work, and I just don't know what causes it first not to work, and then to work.

it's so frustrating because I'm at the point where I can set up connections and use other options (was sending midi clock between units yesterday, etc) without thinking. And then I reach these impasses where something easy just does not work.

I also saved to user preset 1, and reloaded, but not all of the din connections were there.

ok. it turns out that #1 had crashed. Beautiful. Rebooted it, and now I can make the connection. But this leads to another question. In addition to losing connections when I power cycle the MRCC, i notice that on #2, if I save to user #1, it comes back up and I see "loading" user 1. On the first unit, when I save as user #1, it comes back up and says that it's loading the factory preset. Why would this be?

Hi Conductive labs,

I was Kickstarter backer number 39, and I received it and I have been enjoying the MRCC for the last 2 months.
And really, I'm a happy camper. The feature request below is not because I see the MRCC as unusable, but because it could be a lot better with (I think) some small effort.

So, I have this urgent feature request to be made on the "Channel Modifier", but first some background:

Before I was using a iConnectivityMIDI4+ which worked fine, except it didn't do filtering of MIDI events per connection, but per either IN-port or OUT-port, meaning it was more of a all-or-nothing situation, and that bugged me. So that is a major plus of the MRCC. Of coarse the many more DIN ports is also nice. But I wanted to tell you about, as I see it, a serious omission: The MRCC is very much a port router, and less of a per-channel router. For all things non-channel related (Clock & SysEx) that is fine, but most of the many little devices use at most a few (often just one) channel, but with the MRCC as it is, one must continue bombarding them with all the un-needed MIDI channels. The reason is because of the sparse channel filtering. There is this "Channel Modifier", and in essence that one would do the job, but it is limited to 4 channels only, can be 'exclusive', but this would not allow for (say) 5 or more channels to be remapped. Modifying here is always assigning it another channel, but is never 'filtering', and (as said) limited to only 4 channels. Further more, only 6 (!) of those modifiers can be used in the entire MRCC. They can be re-used, but I have not come a cross that use case at all. (For the record, my MRCC's connections are maxed out, and consider this setup as making full use of what the MRCC has to offer)

The following would lift this MRCC limitation in my view:

- Either have a Channel Modifier per connection (best option), or raise the amount of them (20 or so would do it for me)
- Have the Channel Modifier remap all 16 possible MIDI channels (current 4 is very arbitrary and too small a number). The 'exclusive' option is not needed anymore.
- Allow this remap targets to be "Off" or "None", so that you can affectively filter out specific channel data.

So, the above suggestion would make the MRCC a channel router instead of just a port router. A huge improvement in my view. (Hope you agree).

Some other stuff, I think would increase the MRCC's use (but has been talked about elsewhere here on this forum):
- SysEx filtering per connection
- USB host ports 4 in/4 out (instead of current 4 in/1 out)
- Backup entire setup to PC (over SysEx for example)

But I'd really like to end here with a statement of praise: the MRCC is a great device! I use it daily, its the MIDI center of my studio, and it holds up to most of my expectations. (And there is no alternative I know of)

Hope you will consider my recommendations.

Cheers,
Joris