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Reversibles in GO

Mick Berg

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Hi.
Is it possible to have a real reversible in GO? By 'real' I mean that a momentary push of the reversible piston sets its associated stop, eg a manual-to-pedal coupler, one way and the next push reverses it. At the moment it seems that the piston just duplicates the stop, which is not strictly correct.
Thanks,
Mick.
 

Mick Berg

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Reversibles

As I have had fifty views and no replies I guess I need to rephrase this. My complaint is that when the reversible piston is pressed to operate the coupler or whatever it controls, the graphic shows it as pressed in.
A reversible, like any other piston, is a momentary switch. It should not appear to be pressed in at any time.
Is there a way to fix this?
Thanks,
Mick.
 
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mr3sn

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Hi Mick,

It would be possible to use a physical momentary thumb-button to switch a manual-to-pedal coupler on and off.
With right-mouse-button go to Midi Settings of the coupler and add new event. Then listen for event and press thumb button once.
Change event type from "9x Note" to "9x Note On Toggle" and press OK. No need for an extra button in the screen.
Is this what you want?

BR, Dries
 

Mick Berg

New member
Hi Dries.
Thanks for the suggestion. It doesn't solve my problem with the reversible piston not acting as a momentary, but I found your advice useful in adding a reversible to my Silbermann Arlesheim Extended organ, which doesn't have a GT to Per reversible on its virtual console of course, but since the console has one, why not.
I may have to do some custom graphics to get what I want.
Cheers,
Mick.
 

e9925248

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A reversible is different to a normal stop switch. You can only toggle its state via MIDI - you will notice the difference, if you try to assign a MIDI on/off Switch to it. Most other ways to trigger a drawstop are already toggle events, so you don't notice any difference.

You dislike the visual representation - which mirrors the drawstop state.Its more like a push button, which contains a LED. As already written, this can be solved by using custom graphics.
The GO graphics are available under the GPL v2+ license: https://github.com/e9925248/grandorgue/tree/master/src/grandorgue/images

If you just need multiple instance of an GUI element on one panel, you can do this using the panel format 2.0 without using any reversibles.

PS: For easy MIDI configuration, try "detect complex MIDI event" [for manuals/pedals, use "listen for event"].
 
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Mick Berg

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e9925248 said:
A reversible is different to a normal stop switch. You can only toggle its state via MIDI - you will notice the difference, if you try to assign a MIDI on/off Switch to it. Most other ways to trigger a drawstop are already toggle events, so you don't notice any difference.

You dislike the visual representation - which mirrors the drawstop state.Its more like a push button, which contains a LED. As already written, this can be solved by using custom graphics.
The GO graphics are available under the GPL v2+ license: https://github.com/e9925248/grandorgue/tree/master/src/grandorgue/images

If you just need multiple instance of an GUI element on one panel, you can do this using the panel format 2.0 without using any reversibles.

PS: For easy MIDI configuration, try "detect complex MIDI event" [for manuals/pedals, use "listen for event"].
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Hi.
Thanks for the advice. It was not difficult to add the custom graphics. Now the reversibles use the OFF graphic for both ON and OFF states.
And I was able to keep the labels, (SW TO PED, GT TO PED, etc.) much to my delight!
Cheers,
Mick.
 
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