A Beatbuddy Premium Library song selector?

Question

MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Singular Sound

I'd like to build a set of controls that select the bank and songs of the BeatBuddy Premium song library.  The only design I've found provides separate controls for each bank; at the time it was made, the default songs came in 22 banks, so there are 22 controls in a page named "factory songs".  But the BeatBuddy has a huge premium library. So the challenge is an efficient layout that can select and display all those song-sets and songs.

I'd like to have a supercontrol that selects the bank (MSB & LSB) using named ticks (e.g. the song sets, like "Ballad-mini", "Blues", "Brazilian", etc.).  Next to that supercontrol should be a single control to select a song from that song set, sending PC.

Where I'm stuck is that I don't know how to design the song selector.  I'd like to simply have it dynamically load the named ticks for that song set; that way I'd have just one control for which the contents are dynamically set based on the selected bank.  But I don't see this capability in MD.

Any idea how I would go about this?

Answer 1

MDP2 cannot (currently) dynamically load and display programs, etc., from a board and populate a picker.

But you can pre-populate named ticks with fixed content to build the desired selectors.  If you look at the RD2000 Manager or Jupiter X/Xm Managers, you will see samples of pickers that select via category, model, then specific tone, which sounds like what you are attempting.  The Masters Class layout discusses how to build the spreadsheet you need as a first step.  Then it is a matter of sorting the spreadsheet in the desired manner, then creating the links for the next level picker that points in.  Then repeat for the next higher level picker.

I am not sure we have any posts discussing building the higher level pickers - this requires a MDP2 control calculation, but I can help with it once you have the basic spreadsheet set up.

Comments

Thanks @jkhiser. I'll follow this route and comment back here as I progress.

Answer 2

MDP2 cannot (currently) dynamically load and display programs, etc., from a board and populate a picker.

But you can pre-populate named ticks with fixed content to build the desired selectors.  If you look at the RD2000 Manager or Jupiter X/Xm Managers, you will see samples of pickers that select via category, model, then specific tone, which sounds like what you are attempting.  The Masters Class layout discusses how to build the spreadsheet you need as a first step.  Then it is a matter of sorting the spreadsheet in the desired manner, then creating the links for the next level picker that points in.  Then repeat for the next higher level picker.

I am not sure we have any posts discussing building the higher level pickers - this requires a MDP2 control calculation, but I can help with it once you have the basic spreadsheet set up.