Not sure why FAS would keep that knowledge private. Interoperability and extendability are generally good things in technology and in the market. We'd have a very different world without MIDI, Ethernet, or HTTP, for instance.Reckon this is likely to get nuked.
Just wondering if any of y'all smart mofo's have inspected how this thing works. Electrically, physically, and what I assume is serial-packet wise.
Speaking for myself, it's because I can't afford an MJT-22, and I'm wondering what it would take to build a controller with Channel Groups and Bypass Groups, which for some reason I can't link that text to:Um, why would this be important in any way? Just curious.
Or are you just jonesing to have a thread nuked 'cause you're bored?
Either way...why?
Ron
Thanks for jumping in Cliff.FASLINK is not MIDI. The FC-6/12 are "terminals". They record button presses and send the button press to the host. The host sends messages to the terminal which tells the terminal what color to display on the LEDs and what text to display on the LCDs.
If you want to make your own MIDI controller you would have to use the MIDI ports.
Actually I'm being thick I think.Thanks for jumping in Cliff.
Do I gather them that no documentation on the workings of FASLINK is planned? You intend all controller extensibility to be done via MIDI?
Bingo. That's been the brilliant bit about the FC controllers and how they keep working in lock step with the firmware.a homebrew controller talking that language couldn't do anything the FCs can't, because the actual functionality is in the Axe, not the controller.
Anyone know if the MJTs send just normal controllers, or do they also send sysex?
Do you know if the Fractal-specific setups they have include sysex, or can you do everything they do with CCs?Bingo. That's been the brilliant bit about the FC controllers and how they keep working in lock step with the firmware.
They also send custom SysEx messages.
They use SysEx on the Fractal-specific commands.Do you know if the Fractal-specific setups they have include sysex, or can you do everything they do with CCs?
And I figured this was commonly understood here on the forums. And that's why I'm interested.FASLINK is not MIDI. The FC-6/12 are "terminals". They record button presses and send the button press to the host. The host sends messages to the terminal which tells the terminal what color to display on the LEDs and what text to display on the LCDs.
If you want to make your own MIDI controller you would have to use the MIDI ports.
Could well be that’s b/c when you consider cost vs. functionality it’s pretty hard to beat the FC’s. It also doesn’t hurt that they are fairly painless as the “brains” are in the host and not in the FC.I reckon nobody has gone this far yet.
worth the extra coinage for my purposes.
Might be fun to poke around just for curiosity's sake, but I don't think there's a practical use in figuring out the details. If you want to control the thing with something other than a FC6/12, the MIDI interface is incredibly well documented.