I’d like to use the MC8 screen to display the value of a tuner from my DAW. It doesn’t have to be pretty, all I need is to display a value. The simplest way would be to just show the value of an incoming CC message on the Morningstar, but this doesn’t seem to be possible. Does anybody have a potential workaround?
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What is the range and type of values provided by the tuner? Is it one CC for what pitch it is and another for how many microtones it’s off by? Or something else?
Yes, one CC for pitch and one for how far I’m off. In the most stripped down version I wouldn’t even need pitch displayed since I’d be confident enough that I’m playing the correct pitch. So even display of just one CC value would do. (The tuner output would come from an Ableton Max4Live device so I could theoretically map the value to anything I choose, probably just 0-127 with 64 meaning “in tune”)
Since Max4Live is a scripted environment, you could potentially make use of the SysEx implementation to directly write messages to the screen: SysEx Documentation for External Applications : Morningstar Engineering
A hackier way of responding to CCs is to use the MC8 Pro’s MIDI implementation, specifically exploiting these CCs:
(Source: MC8 PRO User Manual | Morningstar Engineering )
So, for example, let’s say how far off you are is on scale of 0-127, with the center being in-tune. If you remapped it to 0 - 10, then 5 (Double Tap) could trigger an “In Tune” label, 6 (Double Tap Release) triggers “+1”, 7 triggers “+2” (or whatever the actual scaling is).
If you wanted more resolution, you could split this between two presets, with one handling negative and the other handling positive.
Awesome, thanks for the response! I’ll give both methods a shot and let you know how it goes.