Sending Multi-part PitchWheel Messages

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I have a device that receives MIDI Pitch Bend commands and uses them to control a number of D-to-A Converters as follows:
LSB = DAC number, MSB = level
Therefore I need to send the LSB and MSB bytes independently of each other but Ctrlr’s standard PitchWheel output just sends one byte of either 7 bits (LSB) or 14 bits (LSB and MSB).
The obvious solution is to use the Multi output but the problem is that when I do that, there is no output from Ctrlr to the DACs. My analyser shows that MIDI data is being sent, but it does not contain any PitchWheel information.
Is this a bug in Ctrlr or am I missing something? Please can someone help – I am used to CAD systems but I am not a programmer and Lua makes my brain hurt!

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You may need to do this with LUA.

I had a similar problem with some complex messages needed for control of a Kurzweil PC3 and ended up having to do it with LUA.

The Puppeteer
http://godlike.com.au

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Thanks for your reply – that’s what I was afraid of!

I suspect it would only take a few lines of LUA code but I have no idea how to even start. I shall have to find me a programmer!

Also I still don’t understand why MIDI Multi messages won’t work for PitchWheel. Can you tell me who actually writes Ctrlr – is it Atom?

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What kind of Multi Output are you doing (what do you mean by, multi output anyway) ?

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Also the PitchWheel message sent from Ctrlr is one message, according to what MIDI defines. It sends 14bits as it should in one message, i don’t understand the problem.

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He needs to specify the lsb and msb independently

Basically he needs a knob that sends keeps lsb constant and maps the msb value to the knob.

The Puppeteer
http://godlike.com.au

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But that can be easily done with formulas, just add a constant value to the real value to set the bit you want.

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