09-14-2022, 12:59 PM
(This post was last modified: 09-14-2022, 04:01 PM by oldgearguy.)
(09-13-2022, 10:12 PM)Raphie Wrote: Don’t think that’s fair, however I need to grab the manual as well for labelling, what I did though was creating a laminated cheatsheet with mrcc port, device, midi ch, usb ch.
i also connected the ports in a way i could easily remember where possible, with the same midi. Channel as port, this already sorts out about half of the ports. I never look at the display. Appreciate everyone works different, but this works for me.
Moog One on port 1
Se-02 on 2
TD3 on 3
Prophet on 5
OB6 on 6
There's some features of the MRCC I never use, there's a lot I use all the time. Labels are one of those grey areas - when I need to do it, it's a struggle each time.
All in all, 99% of the time the MRCC is a wonderful tool for consolidating and organizing all types of MIDI devices and my studio setup is better for them being here.
As far as labels goes, I made a strip in Excel (PDF version attached) that I cut out and tape across the bottom of the MRCCs. They cover up the numbers, but with the names, I don't need the numbers.
I have 2 rows for outputs since I have the MRCCs connected and can route from one to the other. It'c convenient that you can label each USB input port because I have an Xpandr 4x1 connected and can label each input and have the Xpandr located away from the MRCC.
I also have a more detailed spreadsheet showing the device, where it's connected to which MRCC (in, out, both), what MIDI channel(s) it uses, and where on my mixer/patchbay it's connected.
One Label trick that might help some -- assign all your labels to the various Ins and Outs. Then, go back to Input 1. Cycle through each in and out again -- if the 'Assign' button lights up, that means your previous assignment didn't take for some reason and you need to redo that one. After cycling through everything, promptly save it to some preset location.