Behringer X touch compact with DasLight5

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Hello, i’m new in the utilisation of bome for midi mapping and i need some help with the xtouch compact and dl5.

I already see a post about the xtouch full size but there’s too much option about it, and the motorized fader don’t work (i think its about the value but i dont find any website taling about this) so i put the file that i found and i just need someone to explain me how to do it or just convert the file because it’s kinda hard.

btw i only need the motorized fader to get 2 pages of fader, and the lights switchback, because there’s a lot of bugs with daslight about the buttons rgb switchback.

have a great day,

Maxime.

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X-Touch dl5 test-switch faders pages–sjc.bmtp (38.7 KB)

here is the file

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Hi and welcome to the Bome community!

Well I’m going to send you a new project that is simpified to just the faders.

I have my aliases set up as follows:

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You can learn more about aliases from this tutorial.

I am select ports (devices) at the preset level except translator 1.2 which job it is to update the faders on the X-touch.

For more information about device selection, see this tutorial.

Preset 0 handles housekeeping project start.

Preset 0 translator 2 (0.2) initializes global variables used in this project.

Preset 1 handles all traffic coming from the X-touch and going to Daslight.

1.0 sends fader values to Daslight translating from Mackie MCU (pitch bend) to CC (70-78). I have stop processing set so other translators (that are not pitch bend) will not be activated later.

1.1 updates the faders with the preset is activated by triggering a timer.
1.2 is the timer that sends all fader message back to the X-Touch
1.3 and 1.4 suppresses the touch and release from the X-touch respectively.

Preset 2 handles all activity from Daslight back to X-touch.
2.0 converts CC70-78 to pitch bend and sends it back to the X-touch. If Daslight does not send feedback, it will not work.

I have a MIDI thru path set to allow for local feedback if Daslight doesn’t send feedback. It can be removed if Daslight is working correctly.

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I also have a MIDI thru path set from My-Xtouch to Daslight for anything that does not go through a translator.

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I only have 1 pages set at this time. You will need to add translators to switch pages (change presets) . I will leave it to you to figure out how to switch pages. I did this because the focus of your question was fader feedback and not page switching.

Good luck!

X-Touch-MCU-Daslight-Faders.bmtp (4.0 KB)

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Hey thanks for your help,

I figured how to do the 2nd page, but now i need some tips about the led indicator, because when i click on buttons, they dont keep the rgb on, like on daslight if i affect an action on a button, the action is active on daslight but on the controller the button light is active for 0.1second and go to dark so idk how to do it, if you an show me how to do it for 1 and i’m gonna do it myself for the other,

And i’m also trying to figure how to switch this part when i’m changing my layers :

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that could be really usefull if you can help me !

have a great day, maxime

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test mcu.bmtp (6.5 KB) here’s my file if you want to ad on it some tips, thank you in advance !

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Hi,

I made quite a few changes.

First all all notes from page 1 of Daslight use MIDI CH 1 while all notes on from page 2 of Daslight use MIDI CH 1.

I had to add logic to switch presets off and on base on the page that you are on. I used the right lower knob to do this (knob 16). If you turn it to the right it will move to page 2 and if you turn it to the left it will move to page 1.

Translator 0.4 initiates this.
Then translators 1.3 and 2.3 will then activate presets 2 and 4 respectively.

I created translators to convert notes coming back from Daslight and I use the global variables ge and gf to capture their on/off value in a bitmap. This caputures the bitmap for all bot the right buttons. This is done int translators 3.1 and 4.1. The values are capture and the LEDs are updated.

When switching banks, I added 2 translators upon activation to refresh the button bitmap. (1.2 and 2.2). They both call the timer translator I created in 0.5 to iterate and refresh all of the buttons I mentioned earlier.

The caveat is that Daslight needs to send note-on and note-off values that map to notes 0-31 on the desired page (MIDI CH 1 for page 1 and MIDI CH 2 for page 2).

The most complicated rules are those of translators 3.1 and 4.1 which perform the bitmapping exercise. Then translator 0.5 which extracts the value of the buttons for updating the LEDs.

I hope this works for you. This is generally deeper than we get for free support and is done through my private consulting practice.

At this level you might want to consider looking into that.

I’m not sure how you were handling the VPOTS as there is nothing in there to support that and similarily the buttons on the side.

MCU-Daslight-sjc-2025-11-09.bmtp (9.6 KB)

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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hey i’ve tried your file and nothing’s working, the knob is working but that’s not usefull because it randomly switch between page 3 and 4 and sometime it desactivate it. i wonder if its possible to put the layer a on note 54 and the layer b on 55 but idk to do this, and when i switch between page 1 and 2, and i comeback on the page 1, all faders are at 0 they dont keep the position, so if ou can help me that would be great. tysm in advance !

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Hi,

The rules of translator 0.4 handles the page changes.

Change this:

// only notes 48 and 49
if pp<48 then exit rules, skip Outgoing Action
if pp>49 then exit rules, skip Outgoing Action
if pp==49 then gd=1
if pp==48 then gd=0
Log "Log gd=%gd%"

qq=gd+1

to this

// only notes 84 and 85
if pp<84 then exit rules, skip Outgoing Action
if pp>85 then exit rules, skip Outgoing Action
if pp==85 then gd=1
if pp==84 then gd=0
Log "Log gd=%gd%"

qq=gd+1

Note that I’m using notes 84 and 85 which tranlate to hex 54 and 55 which are the layer buttons on your controller that I assume that you are using.

I also added translator 0.6 which updates the LED on the two buttons. It is called by a rule in 0.4.

I also set the led at startup in the rules of translator 0.3

Again, this is way beyond free support so if you need more help, it is probably best to drop me an email. This would likely require a conference call as I don’t have DasLight to test with and am not sure whether DasLight provides adequate MIDI feedback.

I tested the by communicating to and from MIDI Tools and my X-touch compact.

Either that or study the tutorials or examples I gave you.

MCU-Daslight-sjc-2025-11-10.bmtp (10.6 KB)

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz