Hi guys!
Long time ago I realized that all magic the vs-700 does is simply sending MIDI messages ... which you could clone with a BCF (like Elias did) ... or listen in ... or what I had in mind: use it to extend vs-700 functionality (yet I never found enough time to seriously pursue this and eventually forgot about it until I read this thread)
There are many vs-700 button combinations that are not part of the standard vs-700 functionality i.e. you press them, nothing happens; yet, in the background MIDI messages are send, but not understood by Sonar. I would like to use these combinations e.g. for changing screensets by using COMMAND + ACCESS PANEL buttons.
So when you actually press COMMAND + TRACK, you get a new set of MIDI messages ... and if you could re-map that to another simple MIDI message you could assign virtually any Sonar command to that MIDI message (would be way cool)
Trouble is that e.g. COMMAND + TRACK does not send one message, but 2 consecutive ones ... which means you need something somewhat intelligent listening to these messages and in case 2 particular MIDI messages (e.g. 1st COMMAND, 2nd TRACK) appear in the MIDI pipe, you would have to remap them to a single new MIDI command and block the original 2 messages ... sounds a bit complicated (well, it is) and I could not find a proper tool that would be capable of doing this (hence, I gave up as there was no time to embark on a coding adventure)
Well, I had actually found one MIDI tool that could do something like that, but it was awefully complicated to use (and I forgot its name, sorry) ...
But does anybody know some tool that could listen to the MIDI pipe and dynamically manipulate some commands before they reach Sonar ???