GordonCunningham Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 I'd like to see the capability within Cakewalk/Sonar to have the record and/or record arm buttons toggle a relay for external lighting or other uses. This could be expanded upon not unlike a button-to-midi mapping or key assignment system using external hardware (usb relays?). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted June 23, 2023 Share Posted June 23, 2023 Instead of Rube Goldberg contraptions, why not just have a lighted sign with a switch? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OutrageProductions Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 (edited) Get an Arduino kit and a breadboard, do a little reading on the MIDI programming for the CPU and you can not only have it operate a recording light, but it can make a fresh Keurig cupper and popcorn, plus get into an argument with your Alexa too. Edited June 24, 2023 by OutrageProductions 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
msmcleod Posted June 24, 2023 Share Posted June 24, 2023 Cakewalk tells Control Surfaces when tracks are armed, or the transport is recording. So, all you need to do is write a simple Control Surface DLL that listens out for that, and sends out the appropriate MIDI message to another device which relay. An Arduino should do it - and you can even set these up to look like a class compliant MIDI interface, but you can use the in-built serial ports, or a MIDI "hat" as well. If you don't want to write your own Control Surface DLL, @azslow3's AZController will do the job - I used it when testing some Arduino based hardware controllers I was building. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 (edited) Wouldn’t it be easy to buy a small midi controlled lighting hoard to which one could connect a record light. Then a simple midi command would toggle the light. Then assign it to the r key additionally? Ive heard of Arduino but I don’t know what it does Edited June 25, 2023 by Keni Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
azslow3 Posted June 25, 2023 Share Posted June 25, 2023 AZController can also send OSC on record/play/mute/etc. toggles. Can be used to auto-change something in OSC capable mixers (Behringer, RME) or do something else wireless way (f.e. NodeMCU+LED matrix). In that direction but without DIY hardware, the approach can be REST commands from custom Control Surface to REST capable smart devices (bulb, power-plug, relay) (f.e. https://www.shelly.cloud/). AZController does not support that at the moment, but if someone really need it, I can add... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark Morgon-Shaw Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Alexa. Turn the red light on Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Byron Dickens Posted June 26, 2023 Share Posted June 26, 2023 Flip the switch on the wall. Simple. Elegant. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 The light is in my eyes! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lord Tim Posted June 27, 2023 Share Posted June 27, 2023 I just play super quick and let the glow from the heat generated by my fretting hand light up the room. ... or just do like Mark said. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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