I have a question about Mackie support in Translator. I see references that state Translator supports Mackie Hui/MCU but I can not find a reference in the manual for how this is used. I am in the process of converting my Tascam DM24 from a mixer to a control surface. The Dm24 side is complete and I can trace Fader, Pan and transport control messages back and forth to the DM24 using midi monitor and Midi Slider. The motorized pots move as expected, pan works, etc. I now need to integrate to my Sonar Platinum. According to its docs, the only Control Surface protocol that is supported that is bidirectional is Mackie. However, Mackie HUI and MCU only supports 8 sliders. To get full integration, I am going to have to setup 6 instances of Mackie control surfaces similar to what the Mackie multiunit MCU, as the DM24 has two layers of 16 input faders and a layer of 16 Master faders. On the DM24 side I have split these out into different CC for each block of 8 faders and pans. As a result, I need to use Translator to take the one input stream and through the rules test the CC# and the channel # to redirect to one of the six virtual ports where each virtual port is connected to an instance of Mckie Hui in Sonar. Conversely, I need to process messages from each of the HUI instances back through translator into the corresponding cc# and channel#. Is there a built in Mackie translator template that just is not apparent in the Docs?

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

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.

[image] jmcdouga: Steve can correct me if I am wrong. @jmcdouga , you are right on! Thanks for helping out! Steve Caldwell Bome Customer Care Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz

[image] jmcdouga: 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. 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 Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz

Apparently a user wrote a script for MCU extenders. Information is shown below: [image] GitHub - bramdebouvere/fltouch: FL Studio MIDI controller scripts for the... FL Studio MIDI controller scripts for the Behringer X-Touch + extenders (MCU) - GitHub - bramdebouvere/fltouch: FL Studio MIDI controller scripts for the Behringer X-Touch + extenders (MCU)

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)?

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