MIDI-MT - Launching the application

First start

After starting the application, you need to launch the MIDI translator itself. Find the MIDI-MT application icon in the tray, open the menu and select “ Start”. A dialog will open in which you can change the basic settings and start the translator.

MIDI port naming convention

• You can select the MIDI input port from the list; this can be done by selecting the “interaction with MIDI devices” module control.

• Automatically created MIDI output ports on which MIDI-Mackie notations are generated have a name made up of the serial number of the input port and the prefix MIDI-MT-Mackie-Out-(number).

• The MIDI proxy port name is formed in a similar way; the prefix for it will be MIDI-MT-Proxy-Out-(number).

  For example:

Input MIDI port:  W-FADER                // MIDI Controller
Output MIDI port: MIDI-MT-Mackie-Out-1   // Premiere Pro (MIDI Mackie) port
Proxy MIDI port:  MIDI-MT-Proxy-Out-1    // to connect any application
                                         // for parallel control from the controller

The exact names of the ports can be obtained using the menu item “Monitoring” > “View log file” > “Plugins” > “Plugin statistics”, when MIDI-MT is running.

Behavior

• The “auto start” item is checked, the dialog will not wait for the “Start” button to be pressed, but will launch the translator the moment it opens.
• If the “start on boot” item is checked, the MIDI-MT application will be loaded when the application automatically starts when the operating system boots. If the “auto start” item is active, the translator will start automatically.
• The “record log” item is responsible for recording occurring events to a file for possible further analysis of failure/disconnection/connection of MIDI equipment.
• You can read more about the application’s controls and behavior on the Settings and Configuration Files pages.

Operations

If the “auto start” item is not activated, to start the translator, you must press the “Start” button in the main menu. The changes made can be saved in the configuration file using the “Save settings” button. In the future, these settings will be applied automatically. To exit the “Start” dialog, as well as other dialogs, click the “Close” button. The “About” and “Updates” buttons are intuitive and self-explanatory.

When starting, it is possible to use command line switches. The syntax of the switches is described in detail in the section - Command Line Options.