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Hi, I saw you using Reaper in another video. I wonder if you are familiar with articulations when i comes to orchestral instruments? Say Violins 1 KS (KS=Keyswitch) and you can change the articulations when you hit a specific key in the midi editor in Reaper. Violins1 Sustain is C2 36 for instance. I'm using Stream Deck witch Companion and running Manjaro KDE Plasma and I would love to see this option/plugins in Companion. I saw a video that one guy had done this via Stream Deck "original" app and i plugin called "Stream Deck MIDI Plugin" by Trevliga Spel. Not for us linux users. Long question, sorry. Can this be done you think with Companion and this generic-midi-module - change a key on midi editors piano roll? Would be awesome. Thanks for great videos.

Awesome! I'm trying to learn how to control my Atem with ableton.

I tried this and it didn't work for my use case. Basically I need a button that would turn off the metronome in Ableton regardless of last midi message sent. The way Ableton is set up is that it's a toggle. Same note, same velocity but it either turns metronome on or off. However, I have a global STOP button that I want to tie an action to trigger a metronome stop. The problem right now is that pressing the stop button multiple times, engages global stop, but toggles metronome on and off. I can't have that. I'm trying to figure out if a variable can be tied to a background color of a specific button. Let's say, if it's green, the metronome stop is engaged, if it's yellow, it's not engaged. Any way to do this?

This is pretty nifty. One trick you can do in terminal/command is press the up/down arrow, you can cycle between past commands so you don't have to keep typing the same thing over and over.

How would you take a MIDI Input from a fader (I'm using a Korg nanoKontrol) and use those 0-127 values to set a volume level or rotary encoder position? I suppose I could make 128 different triggers per fader, but there has to be a faster way. Specifically, I want to use the MIDI fader to control an audio fader on my BlackMagic ATEM switcher. Any thoughts?

thank you very much. with your tutorial finally im able to work my akai apc mini

I love your videos. I hope you know there are people out there who really appreciate your work. They might not say it, but I know there are others out there. Thank you Andrew

Thanks for the great video. What happens afterwards when you finally recall this show? Specifically Output-wise. What if your show has mtx1-4 as PaL PaR Nearfil Delay (for instance). And let’s say the place where you are guesting has something else entirely. Is the normal thing for the local FOH to Recall safe all his outputs? So then do you have to start soft patching all your outs to match theirs? What about inputs? Do you then bring in their stage RIO and renumber the dante Patch? Do you have a video about “what happens next”? Thanks!

Hi, i want to trigger different buttons in companion by using a midi keyboard. I see that midi signal coming in, but how can i assign keys as trigger for a button, that triggers other hardware? And how can i use pads on a keyboard like the AKAI APC Key25? Thanks.

This appears to no longer work on QL Firmware 5.7 and up. Tested it on two different consoles and it wont work. Doing the same thing in Dante Controller works however. When Patched in Controller the Input is Named This-XXX, when Patched with Console its called QL1#1-XXX (Console ID is #1) Same for you Guys?

Thanks so much for this! I've been looking for an option to send generic Note On MIDI commands via Xkeys and Bitfocus. Could you briefly describe how to configure a local "Note On" MIDI command? In the presets in Bitfocus, I'm only seeing "MIDI In" and "MIDI Out". Thanks again for the work on this!

Would it be possible to use this with a usb midi controller to control the faders of a yamaha ql console?

Is it possible to do this with Inputs too?

Great work. Can't wait to use it on an upcoming job!

discourse.checkcheckonetwo.com/t/companion-generic-midi-module/3890

Thanks for taking the time to make this video

Does this still work? I've been looking around your website and can't find the module. My buddy and I have been struggling to get to level one to download if that is the issue.

Excellent work, Andrew.

BTW, confirmed the Heartech WSG Bridge also allows patching Dante outputs to Dante inputs.

Wow. That's amazing, especially with the feedback. Super useful and smart idea.

Hi Correct me if I'm wrong, but this only work when connected to an actual console? I'd like to prepare a companion session but I don't have a console on hand and I can't connect the RCP module to the editor. Thanks for all your work.

Thank you for your kind words! Come visit my forum, where I’ll be happy to help you with whatever you’re looking to do. The reason I suggest the forum is I want to promote education through people asking questions and discussing things so everyone learns and benefits.

Amazing. Thank you for this. I have been trying to understand more to incorporate deeper functions into stream deck and this has really pointed me in the right direction. I did have a few questions though regarding deeply buried controls. 1. Automix. Are you familiar with the Dan Dugan Model K? I would love to have a stream deck+ controlling the automix, but have no idea how to map those commands to companion. 2. Recently ran into an issue on a streaming gig where I needed to turn the outport delay on and off depending on when a wireless shoulder camera was live. The video guys didn't have a way to do it so they asked if Audio would engage it. The issue was, that some of the record and stream feeds were on Dante, and others were Omni Outputs, making it almost impossible to engage them all at the exact same time. My solution was 2 ipads on the QL outports section.

Erm, not really sure what the point of this video is, pretty simple stuff

I love Custom Variables but I don't understand why they didn't make them persist after Companion is closed. Then you can't us them to assign like a variable to button text for instance..because once you fire up companion it gets removed and replaced by the start one..

Thanks for the review! One question. I've built a series of buttons in Companion to automate my church's weekly TH-cam stream. Most of them are a simple command to my ATEM Mini Pro to AUTO fade between two cameras, followed by a command to one of my PTZOptics cameras to move the Preview camera to a particular shot. So far, so good. The problem is that I feared it would be easy for someone to lose track of where they were in my 18-step dance. As a result, I wanted to change the background color of the last button to be pressed (i.e., red) and reset the background color of the previous button back to black (the default). This last step is where my headaches began. I can turn off the background color of the previous button if I guess at it (i.e., if I press button #6, I can fairly confidently guess the previous selection was button #5). But it doesn't work if you press them "out of order" (i.e, #1, #3, #2). So I'd like to use a custom variable to capture which button I pressed last. Again, I found in v2.2.1 that this step was relatively straight-forward. My problem, however, is that I can't figure out how to use this custom variable to adjust the background color of a button, since the Change Button Background Color command doesn't appear to accept custom variables. Is there another approach I should take, or wait until this feature is added to Companion? Thanks in advance.

Can I do this on an Yamaha LS9? Thanks

Thanks for the great work! I want to use the Yamaha Midi Module in Companion for Yamaha CL5 Remote Control. In Companion only the Yamaha SCP Module is available. Can you help me to get the Midi Version to work?

This is awesome! Nice work! Would you be able to do the same thing for the XR/MR consoles?

Really exciting! Can’t wait to try it out...are you able to trigger a certain bank of user defined keys? So I could have the physical ones on the console doing the A bank and I could have additional banks on the stream deck?

Totally cool.

I need to make an instructional video for this company..not even in the box does it explain anything! pity!

it seems like no one knows how to use this device

it seems like no one knows how to use this device

I've noticed that my md 380-g will totally stop scanning after sitting for a little while.

A big X in front for speaker icon... what in the world could that possibly mean?