I’m trying to control the audio faders on a Blackmagic ATEM switcher (like the ATEM Mini Pro) using my Allen & Heath SQ-6 mixer via MIDI on a host PC. The ATEM supports Mackie Control Protocol for fader control, and the SQ-6 sends MIDI (CC/NRPN) over USB or TCP/IP. I’ve tried A&H’s MIDI Control software to translate to Mackie Control, but it’s not working with ATEM Software Control. I’m thinking Bome MIDI Translator Pro could help by mapping SQ-6 MIDI messages to the exact Mackie Control commands the ATEM needs. Has anyone set this up? Any tips on mapping SQ-6 fader messages (from the SQ MIDI Protocol doc) to ATEM’s Mackie Control requirements? Sample presets or configuration advice would be amazing!
Well I don’t have an SQ mixer or ATEM but the following might work.
Using this document (page 22) , it appears that the LR fader NRPN is 0x40 oo for the first 9 LR faders where oo=0-8. Translator 2.0 should convert NRPN to MCU. You should refer to the document if you want to use different fader assignments.
I also set up translator 1.0 to translate MCU to NRPN but left preset 1 disabled as I only used this for testing with my MCU controller.
I don’t know if your ATEM enforces touch/release. I added that to the outgoing message but if it is not required, you should be able to comment out those parts of the raw outgoing message.
Your programming with those rules etc would have taken me ages to figure out which I simply would’ve not been able to justify for this weekend’s job.
Unfortunately I will only get to try your translation this Saturday, and then the job is Sunday.
Last time I used the gear (which is supplied and currently is not where I live) , I couldn’t get fader control working (wrongly thinking the A&H midi control app would translate & integrate correctly) so the plan B was to use the separate Behringer BCF2000 setup next to the SQ6.
In some ways this may be easier in the end this time, especially as renaming isn’t supported in theSQ6 for midi faders ( i.e. midi fader 2 could be camera 5 for example.. which of course I can just label with tape).
But it would sure be nice to get the faders talking from the SQ.
Also I feel as though your Preset 1 should be active, just in case the fader is adjusted on another computer with the Atem App on the network??
No was unable to get it working reason being
that there was no midi port for the atem as it talks over the network ip.
sorry I didn’t foresee the issue of no virtual midi port via ip for the atem to talk to and from Bomes midi translator. Not sure how to make this network midi port.
Atem somehow sees the usb midi from the Behringer BCF2000.
The plan B the BCF2000 took ages of time to get working and involved using a previously known working configuration using a windows 10 system running Atem 9.3 rather than the latest 9.7 software running on my windows 11 system.
I’ll put in a support ticket to black magic but it’s frustrating when I use the system infrequently.
Yes, I understand if the ATEM does not have a network MIDI port. I think the ATEM may be using it’s own network protocol. If you can see USB MIDI from the BCF2000, then the ATEM USB must be a host port so you would needs something that is a USB device port to talk to it. Of course, it would also need translation from your SQ6. I don’t remember if the SQ6 has MIDI ports but if it does, you could connect the MIDI out connector on the SQ6 to a MIDI to USB device adapter and then use that on the ATEM.
Or, if you could instead convert Midi to mouse movements on the ATEM app to control the ATM itself. It would require that the output understands and has consistent mouse locations on your ATEM application screen.
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