Vista Spyder Remote Access to Catalyst

[Mr_P]

Not aware that you can control catalyst directly with vista via RS232...

It is possible to send TCP/IP commands to catalyst from external sources as well as web commands

There is also facility to trigger presets via dmx and midi.

what are you trying to achieve?

[samsc]

Not aware that you can control catalyst directly with vista via RS232...

It is possible to send TCP/IP commands to catalyst from external sources as well as web commands

There is also facility to trigger presets via dmx and midi.

what are you trying to achieve?

yes - you can- because catalyst makes no distinction between the physical port type - ( i dont care whether the interface is midi rs232 or whatever you want ) in any of the midi or serial input triggering-

So you can send the equivalent of a midi command- over rs232

either notes or midi show control-

to run a preset or a cue - over rs232-

you just set the input port in the midi triggering device to the rs232 port-

for the formats of midi or midi show control messages - you need to look at web docs-

any midi note can trigger a preset

in hexadecimal - base 16-
the numerical values for note on 1 are

0x90 0x01 0x80 ( i think ... )

decimal 144 , 1, 128