LAYOUT: MDP2 Masters Course - Tips and Techniquesby jkhiser

Question

Bronze

I have used MidiDesigner Pro 2 to manage all controls on the RD-2000.  This has required using many MDP2 techniques.  While these techniques can be pulled out from the layouts, I have extracted them here, along with explanations and tips.

You do not need an RD-2000 for this layout.  The intent is to demonstrate the techniques somewhat board agnostic.  In some tabs, I have simulators for the board response.  In the more complicated, I just show how to use the technique.

If this proves useful, I will continue to add techniques and examples.

Some on-deck concepts for future updates:

• Display approaches
• Methods for two controls to impact one message
• Preset pre-loader
• Stacked presets
• Alternate solution for sequential subcontrols (avoiding sending the passed min/max values)
• Pedalboards for remapping relationships

I welcome feedback and suggestions.

Downloads: 2349
Masters Course Rev 1.01 - Adds topics on Hiding the Scaling Problem and Settings Scanner
Downloads: 542

Demo 1.23 - Adds demo of color changing text and VU meter.
Downloads: 293

Demo 1.22 - seven additional examples not yet in Masters Course - Getting further behind. Here are an additional two samples I still need to work into the Masters Course. (seven total) When I get an interesting question, I add to the layout, so keep the challenges coming.
Downloads: 349

Masters Course Spreadsheets 1.01.zip - Adds 16384 zeros and seven byte math
Downloads: 385

Masters Course Rev 1.00 - Initial release of the demo layout
Downloads: 429

Masters Course Spreadsheets.zip - Spreadsheet referenced in both Numbers and .xlsx formats
Downloads: 354

Images

Topics

Scaling sub controls

Bank and Program Changes

Comments

Wow and wow.... this is absolutely amazing. Thank you for being as expert as you are, doing the work to communicate what you've learned, and sharing it to the World. We're so proud of what master users like you do with MD.

Happy holidays!
Dan

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This is great!

As a newbie I highly appreciate such valuable instructions and tipps from a real expert.

Thank you very much in putting so much energy in spreading your knowledge.

Have a nice 2020!

Thomas

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This is in incredible layout; I’ve been learning so much from it! There’s a strong case to be made for shipping this with MDP2 as one of the default layouts.

Thank you jkhiser for taking the time to put this together—I can’t imagine how long it took to figure it all out.

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While that’s easy enough to do, it’s not particularly discoverable. Might be useful though, we will discuss, thanks!

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Thank you for taking the time to submit this work. It is excellent. I find myself reading your posts more than the manual as they explain things in more depth than the manual. The stuff you've done on the scaling of Supercontrols and subscontrols really helped my to get my head around using them effectively.