Comments on: dsmcu – setup instructions

By: two sociopaths in discotek

two sociopaths in discotek — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 22:39:08 +0000

Great app.
I started testing and after fiew days when i ran dsmcu “midi?” apears for 5 minutes. It means ds wont connect.
I started checking every possible properitys. All was ok. HMMM. Router?
Mariocart over WFC works fine.
When i change channel from 6 to 8 on router’s wifi settings all comes back.
App runs great. Connection works. I’ve got plans to use dsmcu on my live PAs. We’ll see.
So check everything including router.
Probably too big traffic on wifi freq.
TXH for app and waiting for news and updates.

By: remaincalm.org

remaincalm.org — Sun, 30 Aug 2009 03:52:45 +0000

not sure off the top of my head – i’ll scope out the source again this week and let you know what that means (it’s been a while since i’ve opened that up, sorry!)

By: Giuseppe

Giuseppe — Sat, 29 Aug 2009 15:34:03 +0000

Hi there.

I am trying to use your app on a Nintendo ds Lite with Reaper.

1. The WiFi settings on the Nintendo are OK; in fact, it can correctly connect to the Internet (I tested this with several applications and games)
2. Also, DSMidiWifi is working correctly: I used it with several applications

Now, I had DSMCU working just once, using Mackie Control Universal as you suggest.

Then, I tried to change the control surface to Behringer BFC2000 (since I have one): now, it does not connect anymore to the network (not even if I select again the Mackie Control Universal). The app keeps showing “MIDI ?” and the led on the Nintendo blinks slowly (no network connection).

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for your help.

Regards,

Giuseppe.

By: Dude

Dude — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 15:03:20 +0000

Together with Colors, this is the best application for the DS !

In Ableton Live, just choose the Mackie control and everything will work. This is the same for Logic Pro

Thanks for this great application

By: dre

dre — Tue, 13 Jan 2009 18:34:54 +0000

Thanks for this great app,

Im using it with ableton live on a mac and everything is running smooth.

This app makes me want to learn programming.
I could do with some more buttons and faders tho, a new page with lots of buttons or some way of switching between different setts of midi outs. What do you plan on doing next with it?

thanks a lot

By: remaincalm.org

remaincalm.org — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 23:08:35 +0000

no news yet – i did some work on it a week ago or so but just so damn busy at the moment.

the project is definitely not dead, though.

By: David

David — Mon, 12 Jan 2009 14:29:57 +0000

Hey,

Just wondering if there’s any news on an update?

By the way thanks for making all of us slightly happier when making
tunes!

-David

By: remaincalm.org

remaincalm.org — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 21:42:36 +0000

it definitely works, at least as a midi controller (there are youtube videos of people using it with ableton, hunt around). i think you need to do a heap of midi assigns though.

possibly check out how people get the bcf2000 hardware controller working with ableton live, it’s probably a very similar setup.
http://www.mio.co.za/forums/index.php?s=38625335b5bf02592da45cdd8b0e107b&showtopic=11118&st=30&p=88117&#entry88117

By: David

David — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:35:44 +0000

Just a quick query… do you know if its possible to get dsmcu working on a pc running ableton live?

i’ve got dswifimidi working fine, midi yoke installed and i’ve even got dsmcu working with reaper.

any ideas?

p.s. love the concept

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:10:16 +0000

Actually, I figured it out:
the “cakewalk generic surface” has a “learn” function which determines where a signal is being sent from, and from that point, I can assign a function to be controlled by that midi signal.
there are only two problems, the first of which being that sonar won’t let me choose a “no midi input” for its midi tracks (which is no fault of your own, obviously) and recording midi might be problematic when moving the sliders requires sending midi data over a channel that might be in use. a way to remedy this might be to use a given note on a given channel for each slider and use the note velocity to control volume. in the future, you might consider adding the ability to control which channel/note a slider is broadcasting over, though I could probably go down the banks (my songs don’t involve many midi channels right now) and have some of the higher channels control the lower channels’ volumes.
The second problem is that i have no idea how to send out the vu data to my ds so i can use your nice bar graphs with sonar. sonar probably has some method of sending that data out, and it’s only a matter of time until I discover it.
other than that, everything works great!

thanks for the great homebrew!
ryan
p.p.s: It appears that my letters are being capitalized, but they don’t appear capitalized in the textbox for comment submission below. Bug?

By: remaincalm.org

remaincalm.org — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 06:04:48 +0000

(yeah, it’s my website – i thought it would be a good idea to turn off caps using css. sorry about that…)

re: i’ll email you a partial controller list. if anyone else needs this, comment here and i’ll post it to you.

By: ryan

ryan — Wed, 13 Aug 2008 05:29:43 +0000

hey there remaincalm.org
Just downloaded this and successfully used it with reaper. i am trying now to use it with another daw known as sonar (7 to be exact). unfortunately, sonar doesn’t have a mackie controller universal surface. it does have a “generic surface” which i think is responding to the controller. would it be possible to give me a list of the midi channels dsmcu uses?

thanks, ryan

p.s.: I don’t know if it is your website or something, but I cannot capitalize my letters. stuff like exclamation points and parenthesis work.

By: remaincalm.org

remaincalm.org — Thu, 19 Jun 2008 05:02:10 +0000

not sure if i understand your problem there – all control data is sent/received as midi. the device doesn’t do any actual audio mixing, that’s the job of the DAW (e.g. reaper).

send me an email, i’ll see if i can sort you out.

By: Willie

Willie — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:39:15 +0000

i have done all the tings in the manual but i get midi?
i have a cyclo ds evolution

can you help me?