Text input not working at all

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Dear Bome,
Am I correct that the Keystroke → Text option for input can recognize a particular string of input and then generate a specific midi message? The documentation is not clear.

On my setup m1 macbook pro, Sequoia 15.6.1, text input does not work, even when I enter only a single character in the text field, but it does work when I switch to Keystroke → Physical Keys.

I read the 2018 topic, Keystroke Input: Text works on PC but not on Mac, but I don’t see any resolution there.

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

EDIT: Alternatively, could Bome recognize a string of two keycodes (i.e. physical keys)?
Alternatively, could the first key (f13-f24) set a velocity variable and the second key QWERTY choose the midi note?

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Hi and welcome to the Bome community!

I believe for your first question, you found a bug. It works on Windows, but not on my Mac M4.

I would have to test out to answer your sequent question. Not all keys can be modifier keys, however and things may work a bit different between Windows PC and Mac.

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In answer to your second questions since F1-F12 will create repeat when held down, then no but you should be able to use shift.

Note however the the incoming keystroke will NOT be suppressed.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Thanks for the quick reply, Steve! I’m looking forward to text-string input when it’s ready for mac.

For my purposes, I realized I could set mtpro to recognize the ‘physical keys’ input for rarely-used F-keys, and then set a global variable to a velocity level in the rules. e.g., when f13 is received, ve = 1 is triggered, or when f14 is received, ve = 12 is set. Then, pressing a qwerty key sends raw midi 90 nn ve, with a different nn for each key.

I still have a bit more work outside of MTPro to get it working, but Bome is not letting me down :slight_smile:

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I have reported the bug and will let you know the status when I get an update.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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Here is an example of using Shift as a modifier.

test-text.bmtp (1.3 KB)

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

Also available for paid consulting services: bome@sniz.biz
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We are looking into the text bug but in the interim, you should be able to use “physical key” and just have multiple of them for a text string.

Steve Caldwell
Bome Customer Care

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