MIDI-OX User Forum - Print Page MIDI-OX User Forum (MIDI-OX >> Mapping Questions >> Controlling an automated analog mixer via MIDI (Message started by: Mach on Mar 12 th, 2007, 8:20pm) Title: Controlling an automated analog mixer via MIDI Post by Mach on Mar 12 th, 2007, 8:20pm Hi there, I was wondering if you could assist me in setting up and controlling an automated analog desk via MIDI from Pro Tools. I use PT LE 7.1 with MPT and Command 8 control surface on a Windows XP PC. I recently acquired a Soundtracs Topaz Project 8 24-8-2 console with VCA automation for channel volume and mute. 
Normally this desk is programmed via a Windows utility provided by Soundtracs, which is pretty outdated (only works in Windows 3.11 and a bit shakey in W95, and is not easily syncable to currents systems etc.) The automation controller unit is entirely controlled via MIDI and I have its MIDI Specifications in the official documentation that came with the unit.
I would like to ditch this user-unfriendly programming interface and control the desk straight from within Pro Tools using its MIDI tracks. I was told that I can do this with MIDI-OX, which I have downloaded and installed, but I'm not quite sure how to map it to make this work. What I would like to do is, I would like to be able to create 24 MIDI tracks within Pro Tools and assign each of them to one input channel of the Topaz connected to a MIDI output on Digi002R, and make Topaz Automation Interface control the VCAs according to the CC instructions coming from Pro Tools' respective MIDI channels' volume and mute information in real time. If I can achieve this, I will be able to physically control the Topaz VCAs via Command 8's touch sensitive faders as well, because my current Command 8 control surface can also talk to Pro Tools' MIDI tracks in a similar manner (however the MIDI instructions used to carry out this may be handled totally different than Topaz's specifications, which is where I need help). So I was wondering if anybody could help me set MIDI-OX as a little translator that will convert Pro Tools' mute and volume instructions into a form that Topaz 8 Automation CPU card can understand.
Ultimate Fish: Poster: Posts: 14: Joined: Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:00 am. I'd have paid to get a new UB802, I bought a little Soundtracs Topaz 12-4 mixer second. That said, I don't really use the pres much on the Soundtracs (not the greatest, though I. I've downloaded manuals for similar products from other.
Or let me know if it is possible to configure MIDI-OX and Pro Tools to do this without having to use a separate MIDI plugin at all. It's a one way open loop communication (from Pro Tools to Topaz only). No feedback coming back from Topaz into Pro Tools. Topaz' MIDI Specification is as follows: The CPU card is entirely controlled by MIDI.