Sending information to keyboard LCD display

Cantabile
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Hello,
I was thinking about having the opportunity to send text information on master keyboard LCD display.

I my case, I use Arturia Keylab88. It’s possible to write some text on 2 lines x16 LCD display simply using Sysex messages:

**F0 00 20 6B 7F 42 04 00 60 01    74657374    00 02      6b6579626f617264204c4344                00 7F F7**

Text has to be converted to hex.

74657374 (line 1)

6b6579626f617264204c4344 (line 2)

Brad … do you think would be useful to integrate that in Cantabile ?? My idea is to send information about songs/states names.

Let me know what do you think about it …

thanks.

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Hello oktogon,
The sysex builder already has expressions that can be used to display song titles and state names. So by adding a binding in the background rack that’s triggered by song state load, you can achieve your goal:

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Select ‘sysex’ from the action drop-down list and double click to display the sysex builder.

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Then include the sysex code above.
1st line represents manufacturer, model and command
2nd line picks the first 16 characters from a standard Cantabile variable for SongName,
3rd line represents 2nd line on the display
4th line picks the first 16 characters from a standard Cantabile variable for State.

Hope this helps,
Jan

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Great ! Thanks a lot …

Is there a way to send this sysex binding an event or a controller ?? (e.g when a key or controller is activated)

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If you want to change the display when pressing a controller or note, you should change the source of the binding.
If you didn’t allready, make sure you watch the walkthrough tutorial on the bindings subject, which is a great introduction in the bindings-concept.