Name:	Medialon MIDI IN/OUT
Version:	6.7.2
Available for:	Manager V7 and Manager V6 (Lite & Pro), Showmaster(ST, Pro, LE & iPro)
Limitation In:
Device Brand:	Medialon
Positrack Compatible:	Yes
Resources type:	MIDI

Overview

This Mxm offers the control of the Midi interface of your computer. It can be specific Midi circuit board or Midi compatible Audio circuit board. It can be used to control any MIDI compatible devices, such as audio mixing table, lights controllers, audio sequencers, fireworks controllers, etc.

Each device can be assigned to control one MIDI in port and one MIDI out port.

Two devices can share the same ports.

MxM Installation

No specific installation required.

Device Setup

Device Setup Dialog Box

The setup of the device is done through this dialog box:

• MIDI out ports: This list contains the MIDI out ports present on the system.
• MIDI in ports: This list contains the MIDI in ports present on the system.
• Info: By clicking on the info button, informations on the selected port are displayed in a separate window.
• Setup: Clicking on the setup button displays a dialog box which let the user select MIDI messages to monitor.

MIDI Message Filter Setup

This dialog box allows the user to select which MIDI messages must be monitored via system variables.

To monitor a MIDI Message: select the MIDI Channel, select the Message Type Tab (Note On, Control Change or Others), click with the righ button on the message and choose “Monitor On”. A system variable is automatically created with a default name. Variable names can be changed via the “Rename Variable” menu.

To unselect a MIDI Message: select a MIDI message, click with the right button and choose “Unselect”.

Some other menu items allows to monitors the whole Message Type page or the whole currently selected MIDI channel. Note that a yellow LED is displayed at the left of a MIDI channel if at least one of the incomming messages of this channel is monitored.

Notes about Positrack

The following commands are positracked:

• Note On
• Note Off
• Control Change
• Program Change
• MIDI file related commands

Only the last Note On/Note Off command before the positrack point is positracked.

Device Commands

MIDI Note On

To start playing a note on a specific channel with the specified velocity.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel to play.
• Note (0–127) [Integer] Number of the note to play.
• Velocity (0–127) [Integer] Value of the velocity of the note to play.

MIDI Note Off

To stop playing a note.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Note (0–127) [Integer] Number of the note to stop.

MIDI Control Change

To send a new value to a control.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Controller (0–127) [Integer] Number of the controller to change.
• Value (0–127) [Integer] New value to send.

MIDI Program Change

To change the program of a channel.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Program (0–127) [Integer] Number of the program to send to this channel.

MIDI Start

To start the sequencer of the MIDI device.

MIDI Stop

To stop the sequencer of the MIDI device.

MIDI All notes OFF

To stop playing all the notes on all the channels (Usually called Panic command).

MIDI Poly Key Pressure

To send a key aftertouch.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Key (0–127) [Integer] Number of the Key.
• Value (0–127) [Integer] New value to send.

MIDI Channel Pressure

To send a channel aftertouch.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Value (0–127) [Integer] New value to send.

MIDI Pitch Bend

To send a channel pitch bend.

• Channel (0–15) [Integer] Number of the channel.
• Value (0–16383) [Integer] New value to send.

Usage: The value 8192 is centered, or “no pitch bend”.The value 0 means “bend as low as possible,” and, similarly, 16383 is to “bend as high as possible.”The exact range of the pitch bend is specific to the synthesizer.

Start MTC

To start sending a timecode signal on the MIDI output.

• Start time [Time] Time at which the timecode must start.
• Timecode type [Enum] 24, 25 or 30 frames.

Usage: the value of the timecode sent is reflected into the MTCtimecodeOut variable.

Stop MTC

To stop sending a timecode.

Load MIDI File

To load a MIDI file.

• Filename [String] Name of the MIDI file to load.

Play MIDI File

To play a MIDI file.

Pause MIDI File

To pause a MIDI file.

Stop MIDI File

To stop a MIDI file.

Locate MIDI File

To locate a MIDI file to the specified timecode.

• Timecode [Time] Position to locate to.

MIDI SysEx

To send a MIDI SysEx message on the MIDI output.

• SysEx Command [String] SysEx Command to send.

Usage: The SysEx Command string must not contain the SysEx Start (F0) and SysEx Stop (F7) bytes which will be automatically added by the MxM. Hexadecimal characters of the SysEx message must be preceded by the ‘!’ character. For example, to send the MIDI Machine Control “Stop” command for device 1 (F0 7F 00 06 01 F7), type the following string: !7F!00!06!01.

Device Variables

The count and names of variables for MIDI message monitoring depend upon the setup (see Device Setup).

MTCtimecodeIn

[Time] Value of the MTC timecode detected on the input, if any.

MTCtimecodeOut

[Time] Value of the MTC timecode sent when the command “Send timecode” has been called.

Filename

[String] Name of the currently loaded MIDI file

Status

[Enum] MIDI File status

• “Idle”: No MIDI file is loaded
• “Playing”: The MIDI file is playing
• “Paused”: The MIDI file is paused (The next Play command will start playing from the current position)
• “Stopped”: The device is stopped (The next Play command will start playing from the beginning of the file).

Position

[Time] Current position of the MIDI file

Duration

[Time] Duration of the currently loaded MIDI file

Revisions

V 1.0.1

• Added: Support for Showmaster.

V 1.1.0

• Added: Support of MIDI files.
• Added: Pitch Bend command.

V 1.1.1

• Bug Fixed: crash if the MxM is used on a machine where DirectX is not installed.
• Bug Fixed: a MIDI resource cannot be shared by several devices (although the setup dialog also allows it). This bug fix requires Manager 5.0.2 or higher
• Added: Support of MIDI files in Showmaster.

V 1.1.2

• Added: Support for Showmaster Pro.

V 1.1.3

• Bug Fixed: Recording doesn’t use the Timeline time when supplied.

V 1.1.4

• Modified: Added traces for timecode generation.

V 6.0.0

• Modified: Support of Manager V6/Showmaster V2.

V 6.0.1

• Fixed: Setup dialog doesn’t open on the correct screen on a multi-screen configuration.

V 6.0.2

• Fixed: Device variables are not reset after a project load (Requires Manager 6.0.3+).

V 6.1.0

• Added: Support for Showmaster LE platform.

V 6.1.1

• Fixed: ‘MIDI SysEx’ command do not work, a Pitch Bend 0, 0 is sent instead whatever is the sys ex message.
• Fixed: Velocity parameter is missing for ‘NoteOff’ command.
• Fixed: ‘NoteOff’ monitoring is not properly implemented (velocity is missing). Note: this change may require to redefine variables for former NoteOff monitors as name of those former variables does not reflect note numbers. In such a case, unselect the monitor for those notes, close the setup, reopen the setup and select them again.
• Fixed: ‘MIDI SysEx’, ‘Load MIDI File’ and ‘Locate MIDI File’ commands do not work if a variable is used as parameter.

V 6.1.2

• Fixed: The ‘Incoming MIDI Message Filter Setup’ dialog box can be displayed outside of the screen at device creation.
• Fixed: The Setup dialog box is not always fully visible at the device creation time.

V 6.1.3

• Fixed: Setup dialog box doesn’t display properly if the text magnifying settings (DPI) is greater than 100% into Windows system.

V 6.1.4

• Fixed: MXM Commands may sometimes hang Manager/Showmaster while the command being executed.

V 6.1.5

• Fixed: MTC decoding was not handled properly when MIDI data are missing; erroneous MTCIn can be displayed.
• Fixed: MTC Generator is stopped when MIDI commands such as Note On or Program Change are sent.

V 6.2.0

• Added: Compatibility for Overture CS.

V 6.2.1

• Fixed: Midi files don’t load and play when Showmaster is in stand-alone running mode.

V 6.7.0

• Improved: Support for High DPI displays (require Manager 6.7.0+ or Showmaster Editor 2.7.0+)
• Changed: Compatibility for Manager 6.7.0 and Showmaster Editor 2.7.0