Sending MIDI notes from ProTools & Back

Hi everyone!

I’m new to this forum and Bome products in general and just discovered this the other day.
Now Im hoping I’ve might come to the right place.
Im considering buy two MIDI Translator Pro licenses, but Im honestly quite the rookie when it comes to anything more then very basic MIDI and I would like to know if Translator Pro really is my solution here.

So first; let me explain what I’ve been doing previously and why it no longer works - hence the need for a new solution.
To clarify - Im on a MacBook M3 and using ProTools studio.

Original solution:
I’ve been sending a MIDI CC# 116 from ProTools to the mac IAC Driver and then back to ProTools again. The command is for ProTools to stop playing - I basicly want ProTools to trigger itself to stop playback at certain places in my session.

Newly discovered problem:
Now this was all working because I ran ProTools ‘M-Audio Keyboard’ as my midi controller and it recognized the IAC.
But the ‘M-Audio Keyboard’ is removed from the current version of ProTools I’m running.

Hopefull solution:
As far as I see my only solution here is to have a virtual program that can appear to be a HUI controller while sending and receiving this MIDI command. Here I found Bome!
Now, is there any way of making the MIDI Translator Pro appear to be a HUI controller and receive and send this MIDI command to ProTools?

Like I said, I’m a novice when it comes to MIDI at this level so I would very grateful for all the help I could get!

Best regards,
Emanuel

Hi and welcome to the Bome community!

Yes, please find the attached.

The first preset (preset 0) has translator 0.3 which will set a HUI ping reply when Pro-Tools sends a Ping. This tells Pro-Tools that there is an attached HUI device.

Preset 1 has 2 translators.
The first translator sends a HUI Stop signal when Note on MIDI CH 1 note 12 is sent from your controller.
The second translator sends a HUI Play signal when Note-On MIDI CH 1 not 13 is sent from your controller.

You can modify the incoming triggers based on what your controller sends for these functions.

I’m using the following aliases.

You can learn more about aliases from this tutorial.

For input output device selection, I define the devices at the preset level.

For the HUI ping and reply, I define the devices at the translator level.

For more information about device selection, see this tutorial.

You can download a trial copy of Bome MIDI Translator Pro here to test it out. The trial version is fully functional but times out every 20 minutes.

At this point, I have not created any other translators.

You need to define your controller as a HUI device in Pro-Tools.

HUI-Start-Stop.bmtp (2.2 KB)

Good luck!

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care


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

Hi Steve, and thank you for the welcome!

And thank you for helping me out, this seems to work perfectly!
You really made my day!

Im just waiting for my new interfaces to arrive and then I’ll update both my ProTools rigs with licences for the Bome MIDI Translator!

Best regards,
Emanuel

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