Beginner at Hise Plugins and Mackie MCU Protocol

[JimmyJ]

Hi.

I am new to Hise and am primarily interested in creating a plugin that would just be a simple recording-light.

As in a virtual LED that would turn red when you are in-record (punched-in), and blank when you are not.

I wanted to ask if anyone could point me to anywhere where people have discussed Mackie MCU or HUI implementation for Hise?

The chart of the Mackie MCU midi-parameters, which are now what Presonus, Icon Digital, Behringer, SSL, etc. all use for their transport/fader controller hardware, is found many places online.

It’s basically just a series of midi note-numbers and controllers on midi-channel (16?).

An intrepid person “reverse-engineered” it many years ago;

https://htlab.net/computer/protocol/mackie-control/MackieControlProtocol_EN.pdf

I had thought of trying to make a plugin that could be inserted somehow on a track and then receive the proper midi-commands.

I’ve looked all over for one and it seems nobody has done one.

[Lindon]

@JimmyJ well this seems to be the relevant bit:

Rec 1 C-1 Dec: 0, hex: 0
Rec 2 C#-1 Dec: 1, hex: 1
Rec 3 D-1 Dec: 2, hex: 2
Rec 4 D#-1 Dec: 3, hex: 3
Rec 5 E-1 Dec: 4, hex: 4
Rec 6 F-1 Dec: 5, hex: 5
Rec 7 F#-1 Dec: 6, hex: 6
Rec 8 G-1 Dec: 7, hex: 7

so there are 8 record commands, all on channel 1, with velocity 127 = on 0 = 0ff

So this (if this is correct) would be trivial in HISE...

[JimmyJ]

@Lindon Thank you! I am going to start reading the tutorials and see if I can make sense of Hise!