MIDI-Controller MC-8 CLI Updater

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About this project

The official tool for configurating the nakedboards MC-8 is cool, but somehow limited: you need to be online to set up your faders (or at least download the webpage and serve it locally) and there is no notion of some kind of CCs bank.

To solve this problem, first of all for my own usage, I coded a very simple Node.js client, whose code you'll find in the present repository.

Installation

You would of course need some Node.js. Mine was v14.15.4 when I wrote these lines, and I haven't tested the application with older versions.

First clone the repository, then use for favorite package manager to install the dependencies:

$ npm install

or

$ yarn install

Then populate the banks.json file with as many banks as you wish.

They must follow this format:

[
    [1, 11],
    [1, 1],
    [2, 11],
    [2, 1],
    [3, 11],
    [3, 1],
    [4, 11],
    [4, 1]
]

...where the first number of the first row is the MIDI channel and the MIDI CC number for the first fader, and so on...

Usage

The CLI offers the following command:

    -h				Prints this help
    -l	--list			List all banks
    -n	--next			Upload next bank
    -p	--prev			Upload previous bank
    --bank=[number]		Load a specific bank

So for instance :

$ node MC8-MIDI-settings --next

... would iterate through the banks in forward.

The settings are immediately uploaded to your nakedboard after a successful command otherwise some error message is displayed in the console.

And that's it!

Feel free to contact me if you have any question regarding this tool!

Licence

Copyright © 2021 grebett

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