Hi All,
I’m a newbie who was pointed in this direction by a support resource as i’m a Yamaha 01v96i owner interested in getting my Yamaha device to work with FL Studio
‘Hi, I have created a project file in a piece of software called Bome MIDI Translator Pro that can take a Mackie HUI device output Mackie MCU. I’ve tested it with a few DAWs that support Mackie MCU but not Mackie HUI.’
Where and how do i get involved with esting the template?
Thanks
Hi @tommtomuk and welcome to the Bome community!
The template I put in the posting should get you started. You will have to define your own incoming commands but the output will then be HUI.
With that said, I think FL Studio understands Mackie MCU but not Mackie HUI. You might want to double check this before you start working on the project file. I would always start with just testing fader 0.
Now FL Studio supports HUI, you could also look at this thread about the O2r as it has an example of 02r to HUI. I don’t know how similar the O1r and the O2r are.
There are other samples on this forum for various controllers to Mackie MCU and Mackie HUI. Most of them are simple examples with a single or maybe one or two faders. If FL Studio supports MCU, I suggest you search on that.
Mackie HUI is an older standard and is not compatible with Mackie MCU. Most people use HUI with ProTools that does not support MCU. But MCU is better supported by most other DAWS.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Hi there!
I have successfully used my 02R with Ableton, Logic and Pro Tools.
I had fader control, channel banking, single fader scrolling, and even had a button programmed that would kill the fader feedback so i could overdub automation, as the unit has no touch sense track in its faders.
All in all it was a good script. I ended up just buying a wee 8 fader surface.
If anyone would like me to post the scripts, lemme know and I’ll set it up.
Always happy to help!
Thanks, Andrew. Although no one may not be interested right now, if you have time it would be good to post. Often times users come in later and search for previously defined solutions on this forum.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Hi Andrew,
Yes Please post im interested to see what i need to do to get my 01v96i to talk to FL.
Thanks
TT
Hi Steve, New Year Greetings!
HELP!!!
So On your advice ,i got started with trying hard to get my 01v96i to work with FL Studio but with little success
I did the right thng, tried and paid for a Bome MTPro license (and because a user also has my yamaha mixer) i download the settings file 01v96-HUI-to-Ableton-live-Mackie-2023-04-09.bmtp, and worked with that, however i tried everything explained in the post (Yamaha 01V96 VCM as Controller for Ableton - #16 by Marco.Engel) and got some joy, however after some time and work,using MCU in FL, i can only get the first 8 channels singing in perfect harmony with FL and the transport controls are fine as well but what am i not doing correctly?
How do i get the other 8 channels to sing the same song as the daw?
Can you help me please?
Your assistance is greatly appreciated!
Thanks.
TT
Mackie MCU only supports 8 sliders per unit. You will have to create another instance of Mackie MCU in FL and then in translator map sliders 9-16 from your Yamaha to sliders 1 - 8 in the second instance of Mackie MCU on the FL side. If you look at docs for the MCU add on, it has its own midi connections so the master and the addon connect to two instances on the Daw and each one sends its own sliders 1 - 8. Since your Yamaha has 16 sliders as a base, you will have to split them into two sets of 1 - 8 feeding two instances of MCU on FL.
Steve can correct me if I am wrong.
I am starting to work on a similar problem mapping 16 motorized sliders on a DM-24 into Sonar. It will require multiple instances of MCU in Sonar as well.
@jmcdouga , you are right on! Thanks for helping out!
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Jim, Thanks for this
can I play dumb and ask for more help and a brief explanation of how to do this in translator please?
Hi,
I’m not 100% sure that FL Studio supports multiple Mackie devices. Most DAWs that have MCU compatibility do. You usually just set them both up and the second port found uses Tracks 9-16. I just did some testing with FL-Studio 21 and found this not to be the case so you should probably check with Imageline to find out if multiple MCU devices are supported. For me, both controller ports were using tracks 1-8.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Apparently a user wrote a script for MCU extenders. Information is shown below:
Hi Steve,
Thanks for your time with this, appreciate the link for the midi scripts too, interesting stuff!
You are correct saying FL Studio doesn’t support multiple Mackie devices I got the same result, as I’ve tried and tested this with no success for 16 faders but 8 channel faders works no problem.
Now, I’m asking this because I’m sceptical about this so What are your thoughts on a Yamaha mixer working with the “FL Studio MIDI controller scripts for the Behringer X-Touch + extenders on (MCU)?
You could try it. I think the extenders use a different device ID though.
You would still need the MT Pro script for HUI to MCU.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Hi Steve.
I tried the xtouch script files and the progress report is that they worked using MT Pro, however the faders are on opposite sides of the board I.e Channels 1- 8 are controlled by faders 9-16 and vice versa.
I’ve tried various combination with the port numbers and xtouch main & extender files and either 1 side (left 1-8) works fine or like you found earlier, both ports control 1-8.
With a little tweaking of the files, to make the 9-16 work as they should this would be mission accomplished but I know nothing about writing code etc.
What help/advice and wisdom can you shed light on please? HELP!
T!
Not sure if I can here as we are probably at the mercy of the FL-Studio Script. With that said, show me how you have it set up (screen shot) and maybe something will jump out at me.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Thanks for the quick reply.
Sadly it works on launch but loading a project kills any response and I checked the setting etc, nothing changed, the mixer just didn’t respond to the xtouch script
Think I may reach out to the gent who wrote the code and see if he can help but its a very long shot or are you any good with code? If so would you tinker with it for a fee?
For Python Scripting it is probably better to work with the guy that wrote the script. Too bad you don’t get any support from Imageline. Most other DAWs have this feature included.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
did you ever get the hui to work on fl?
I’m pretty sure that HUI is not supported on FL Studio but I believe Mackie MCU is but only for 8 tracks.
I have some examples of project files that can do some conversion of HUI, to MCU if you are interested. I did this with Ableton Live which also supports MCU but not HUI.
Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care
Hi
No!
I couldn’t get the MCU to HUI ableton files to work sadly! however I did get better 2.Way communication with this; GitHub - bramdebouvere/fltouch: FL Studio MIDI controller scripts for the Behringer X-Touch + extenders (MCU)
FL does respond to this touch file, however it still
Needs a little tweaking for it to work perfectly
meter level,transport etc need attention and if that is responsive, everything will be wonderful.
It’s commonly courteous to Always start a message with a Greeting!
Good luck