[Ardour-Users] How to set up mcu control surface in OSX?

[Thomas Vecchione]

Well glad to hear it is working.  I guess I need to figure out what I do by
second nature these days to get the MCU working in the .rc file and either
submit a patch or at least document it in the new manual.

       Seablade

On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 3:36 PM, Glarbl_Blarbl <glarblblarbl at gmail.com>wrote:

> Thanks for the quick response!
> I reverted the .rc file to its original state, but I got this error:
> Sep  8 12:14:00 cabin [0x0-0xb80b8].org.ardour.Ardour2[1922]: set_active to
> false because exception caught: The Mackie MCU driver will not use a port
> with device=ardour
>
> I
> remember this error from linux, and the solution was to specify the midi port in the .rc file.
>  So I went back to my custom .rc and it connects again.
>
>
> As for reading the first time user's page, yes I did. There is nothing on that page about the MIDI patchbay.  Regardless I downloaded it and did as you suggested.  Now it works!
>
> Maybe I was remembering syncing my midi sequencer for the MTC stuff...
>
> Grant
>
>
> On Sep 8, 2009, at 8:14 AM, Thomas Vecchione wrote:
>
> Going off memory the Mac doesn't need anything edited in the .rc file
> IIRC.  The build and install I believe sets it up correctly, but I will have
> to double check that sometime.  I don't remember editing anything the last
> couple of times I did this anyways.  Yes I am aware you need to edit it on
> Linux but the reason is that on Linux you ened to tell it to use the raw
> port, not the alsa-seq port which causes issues.
>
> On Tue, Sep 8, 2009 at 1:48 AM, Glarbl_Blarbl <glarblblarbl at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>>
>> The weird part is that even though it seems to recognize the control
>> surface and map faders to mix channels, none of the faders move when I move
>> them in the mix window (with or without feedback checked -- this works under
>> linux) and I don't see any log activity when I move faders around on the
>> mcu.  I tried Logic mode, MCU mode, and HUI mode all to no avail.
>
>
> It sounds like you didn't read the part about using the MIDI Patchbay app
> on the first time OS X user page.  You need to download the MIDI Patchbay
> app, it can still be found on various points of the internet, and route from
> the mcu port to the MIDI port and Back, then enable feedback.
>
>
>> I have tried a bunch of different sync settings, but get errors when I try
>> to "Send MTC" and sync mcu to MTC -- which is what I needed to do to make it
>> work under linux.
>>
>>
> Completely unrelated and should never be needed to get MCU working.
>
>       Seablade
>
>
>
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