Re: midish as show controller

> Hello,
> I am trying to use midish to automate some lights in a show based on MTC of
> music playing from a hard disk recorder.
> I normally use a behringer BCF-2000 control surface to control Q light
> Controller (running also on Linux) to manually control the lighting.
> For a show we are doing I would like to automate this somewhat.
>
> I am using midish.tar.gz <http://www.caoua.org/midish/midish.tar.gz>development as recommended on the web site compiled on Ubuntu 10.01.
>
> If I connect QLC via midi to the BCF directly sliders knobs and buttons
> work as expected.
>  If I map them thru midish as below. all values keep trying to return to 0.
> If I move a slider up, it will make its way back down to 0. I suspect that
> is because they are being treated as notes and last only one beat with the
> feed back loop on position causing them to jerk there way down.
> How do I make the controls stick?
>
> dmarch@Aspire1:~/Show$ rmidish
> send EOF character (control-D) to quit
> [0000:00]> inew qlc {0 0} # the qlc program (dnew 0 "midi thru"  rw is in
> midishrc)
> [0000:00]> onew qlc {0 0}
> [0000:00]> inew board {1 0} # the behringer board (dnew 1 "usb-midi" rw in
> midishrc)
> [0000:00]> onew board {1 0}
> [0000:00]> fnew filter1
> [0000:00]> fmap {any {1 0}} {any {0 0}}
> [0000:00]> fmap {any {0 0}} {any {1 0}}
> [0000:00]> tnew lights2
> [0000:00]>
> [0000:00]> r
> [0000:00]> 0: sensing enabled
> 3  31:01   s
> [0000:00]> save "lights2"
>
> If you have any recommendations on how I might do this, or software that
> might be more suitable for this task, I would appreciate any comments.
>
> Dale
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