Command Center instants - pressing twice?

[Szaladin]

Hey everyone,

 

I set up my Helix LT to control my light show.

 

I have 8 scenarios available on my light controlling device - a perfect match to control it with the Helix's 8 snapshot.

 

Everything works like a charme, I send a Bank/Prog-Message via "Instant" in the CommandCenter. The value of each of those Messages correlates to the light scenario. 

 

However, if I switch from one preset to another, I have to press the button twice. And subsequent pressing of the same snapshot-button leads to an on/off behaviour of the light. 

 

So, obviously there is an "switching the message on and off" thing going on:

 

Initial State:          Light preset 1

Press FS2:            Switch to Snapshot, changes light also

Press FS2 again: Light off

Press FS2 again: Light on

etc.

 

or:

Light  off

Press FS2:            Switch to snapshot, changes light to light preset 1

Press FS3:            Switch to snapshot, light off

Press FS3;            light scenario changes

 

 

The on/off behaviour can be useful, alright. But of course I want to switch light immediately upon kicking the button. Double-Tapping is somewhat imprecise and leads to a fraction-of-a-second of darkness. Not really desired. :p

 

"Duplicate PC send" is off, as otherwise the light does nothing at all.

"MIDI tempo" send/receive are both off

All MIDI settings that have the option to choose between USB and MIDI are set to MIDI-exclusive.

"PC send" and "PC receive" are off, as otherwise the light does only change when I change the helix preset (and not snapshots).

 

 

Anyone having any ideas on how to fix this? :)

 

[phil_m]

I'm not sure I understand everything in your post correctly, but one thing to remember is that the Instant Messages are sent when the preset loads as well as when you trigger a new snapshot.

[Szaladin]

I am aware of that. However, the problem is, that I needed to press the snapshot shortcut twice to change the light (once to turn lights OFF, once to send the new PC message).

 

Anyways, now I am not able to reproduce the situation. I saved the settings before shutting down on both devices (the light board and the Helix) and did not touch them until now.

 

However, nothing seems to come out of the MIDI out now. I switched the USB-MIDI on to test everything with MIDIOX. The messages are still sent over USB (if MIDI over USB is switched on). So maybe my MIDI cable is broken. I will report back in ASAP and as soon as I have found out why the messages do not reach the light board anymore.

 

EDIT:

 

The MIDI cable is working with my keyboard, so everything fine there.

 

New strange thing: The auto-PC messages are sent and registered via USB if enabled. However, setting a MIDI Note On, CC or anything else is NOT registered over MIDIOX if set on a footswitch. Is this normal? The issue might be positioned there.

[Szaladin]

I found out what the initial problem was. Or at least one of them.

 

It is not possible to assign a MIDI Command to a footswitch if it is assigned a Snapshot (thanks to the "Unofficial MIDI Guide for Helix").

 

However, I now face a weird problem:

 

Once I set a MIDI command to a footswitch, the value resets for every snapshot. That is to be expected, I know.

 

So I assign the MIDI value to the desired ones for all footswitches, for all snapshots.

 

I press the SAVE button after every setting, to be sure.

 

However, when I reboot the Helix, the MIDI commands stay, the values are reset to C1 all the time ;/