Struggling with NRPNs on the Grid Editor

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Hi all, I’m new to the forum and to Intech controllers and I’m struggling to programme a PBF4 (series 3) to send NRPN messages to a Hammond XK-5 on Channel 1.

I want to set the top left encoder to change the MFX type.
I’m assuming the Grid editor wants all numbers in decimal, as the defaults shown are 1-127.

Looking at the XK-5’s MIDI pages the message for selecting the MFX Type is:
xB0 x63 x05 x62 x30 x06 xval

  • xB0 is MIDI Channel 1
  • x63 x05 is MSB 99, value 05
  • x62 x30 is LSB 98, value 48
  • x06 xval is value to send, in this case between 0 and 7.

How do I reflect this in the editor?

Grid Editor NRPN Settings
Grid Editor NRPN Settings328×699 28 KB

I’ve set the value range in the purple PC section, but that doesn’t seem to affect the red NRPN part. Putting 0-7 in the NRPN Value field returns a syntax error from the editor.

If I put 06 in the Value field the controller only sends the value of 6, not the range of 0-7.

Also, in the NRPN section, do the //127 and %127 in the MSB and LSB fields mean anything specific?

I appreciate some of this will be really obvious, and may well just be me not knowing what I’m doing yet, but any help that can be offered would be very gratefully received.

Many thanks in advance!
Andy

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Mmmm interesting I could not even get the editor working with NRPNs and had to spin my own fork. Are you using it in windows?

I’ll check if they released a new stable version.

About your question, no idea :frowning: don’t have module with potentiometers (only encoders).

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This is how I would do this with NRPN, altho I’m not sure if you’ll need the 14bit mode for this :D.

NRPN

So what you’ll need to change for the config to work is two things:

  1. Create a variable called val or just directly connect the value of the potentiometer to the value sent by the NRPN action (I did the first one this time around).
  2. Change the range of values sent out by the potentiometer by reducing the range of it to the desired one using the Mode block.
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Thanks, both.
I think I’ve sussed it out using SysEx, and I’ve tried that on a couple as NRPNs too. Next step is to test it on the hardware, then work out the value restriction mode block bit.