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Hi all,
I've got tired of having to drag wires and reconnect all the light connections every time I make a blunder and mess my custom setup up, so I thought, as a Belcanto learning exercise, I'd try to work out the Belcanto to do the wiring. I've been doing the following (as an example for MIDI 1):

keygroup 1 midi output 1 light input to midi rig 1 output light connect

This runs without error and I can see a wire being created from the rig output to the relevant light input on the keygroup. However, it doesn't actually light the tonics. At first glance I thought the result was identical to dragging a wire manually within Workbench, but on closer inspection, it's actually adding a triangle to the light output on the rig, as if it thinks it's adding a new object underneath. Is this a bug or am I not getting the Belcanto correct?

Once I've got a solution to this my plan is to write it up in the Wiki, as I think it could come in handy for a lot of users.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Mark.

Wiki page added:

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On further checking, the lights don't properly light up tonic only on chromatic, pentatonic and other non-12 note scales.

Is this a bug?

Randy

The way you made the connections in this script gets you all the lights back from all the instruments and keygroups and displays them all on keygroup 1. There are different scales on each keygroup and also different layouts for each keygroup. These are separated on channels going into the rigs, so you need to pick the appropriate channel for each keygroup coming back out of the rig. The channels for this are numbered with the same numbers as the keygroups in the factory setups. So as long as you're using the same scale on each keygroup, you'll see the same light. However, as soon as you change a scale of one keygroup, you'll start seeing a mixture of lights unless you use the correct channel.

I noticed that the current factory setups can be improved by actually also filtering out a channel inside the rig. The scalers are situated after the recorders, which adds different channels for the live data stream and the recorded takes that are played back. This is needed to keep them separated. The current light connection inside the rig doesn't filter this channel out, meaning that you get another level of channels coming out of the rigs, ie. channel 1.1, 1.2, 1.3 ... for keygroups 1, 2 and 3.

I wrote some upgrade scripts to adapt the factory setups so that only the first recorder channel is used. I also included a series of wiring scripts that make the right lighting connections with the appropriate channels for each factory setup.

You can find them here:

https://github.com/Eigenlabs/EigenD/tree/2.0/sys_init/scripts/Factory%20Setup%20Fixes

https://github.com/Eigenlabs/EigenD/tree/2.0/sys_init/scripts/Lights

Take care,

Geert

On further checking, the lights don't properly light up tonic only on chromatic, pentatonic and other non-12 note scales

@carvingCode

If you click on a wire with the EDIT tool you get "connections details"
showing the channel and input filter. (maybe you already seen this..sorry)

It sure adds more flexibility and but also difficulties of managing everything...