Three-Way Switch in MD?

Question

In the Change Log for 1.6.5, it says:

• New: a relative control can send two or three different MIDI messages.

 

How does this work?

Answer 1

First of all: This is not a three-way switch. To do that: just use Button Groups.

 

This is different from using button groups in that each value continues to send out while the user continues up or down. This is a variation on the Relative Control (sends 127, 64 and 0, usually).

 

Set it up like this:

 

Note: Knob-etc = Knobs or sliders or crossfaders or XY pad dimensions

1. Set a supercontrol Knob-etc. (or slider/crossfader)
2. Make supercontrol of type (or subtype) relative 
3. Supercontrol options: supercontrol is sequential
4. Give it three subcontrols (Knobs-etc.) 

Set the supercontrol to have "sequential" subcontrols (options for super)

should switch between them.

 

Comments

Interesting.

What would be a practical use for this?

I can imagine having one big super control knob to traverse through various banks of presets.

What are other uses?

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EZB if you don't use relative controls that produce two values over and over again, you definitely won't need this.

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@admin OH, now I see what it does. I forgot to set the relative type. But I do love it when you don't set the relative type. Then you can traverse through multiple presets. Sequential super control knob->various super control kobs that have 2 sub controls that do a bank change and a preset change.

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Yes: we need to get these examples all together in playbook at some point.

Answer 2

First of all: This is not a three-way switch. To do that: just use Button Groups.

 

This is different from using button groups in that each value continues to send out while the user continues up or down. This is a variation on the Relative Control (sends 127, 64 and 0, usually).

 

Set it up like this:

 

Note: Knob-etc = Knobs or sliders or crossfaders or XY pad dimensions

1. Set a supercontrol Knob-etc. (or slider/crossfader)
2. Make supercontrol of type (or subtype) relative 
3. Supercontrol options: supercontrol is sequential
4. Give it three subcontrols (Knobs-etc.) 

Set the supercontrol to have "sequential" subcontrols (options for super)

should switch between them.