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Displays all received MIDI messages. Useful for debugging MIDI connection and configuration.
 
Displays all received MIDI messages. Useful for debugging MIDI connection and configuration.
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====Using MIDI controllers instead of Encoders====
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Using midi driven encoders instead of encoders bult-in to the Zynthian is a little bit confusing, and that’s conceptual rather than technical. A MIDI controller is normally a pot or an encoder pretending to be a potentiometer. Its value varies from 0 to 127. The problem with that is the Zynthian encoders work as proper encoders using up and down signals. To produce something that could control a list properly when you move to a specific screen after you’ve come from another page is rather complicated because most pots will simply send the maximum value but not repeatedly send if further turns are made.
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The next issue is handling the pushbutton functions of the encoder and bold presses and long presses.
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You can send CUIA commands to drive the GUI and that would allow you to drive the whole device from push buttons but it might be a lot of switches.
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And you really can do an awful lot with a mouse! Really easy if you get a wireless(not Bluetooth) one it’s really intuitive once you learn the trick to do the back button.
    
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