U-8 & Mapping MIDI Sys-Ex to CC

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trippydog
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U-8 & Mapping MIDI Sys-Ex to CC

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Hi fellow Rolandphiles, Great forum here!

I'm just setting up a home studio again after getting rid of my gear to go travelling a few years ago. I've loved the Roland gear I've had in the past so got a couple of bargains on ebay... an E-5 keyboard/synth and a U-8 interface/controller. (On a very tight budget)

Any other U-8 users here?

Fortunately the U-8 XP drivers seem to be fine in Win7, not sure about the audio side, but it seems usable as a MIDI controller.

The faders are sending CC messages so it was straightforward to get them working in Ableton & Cubase (thanks to whoever posted the XML file on the now-deserted Yahoo U-8 group!) All the other buttons and pots are sending Sys-Ex.

Anyone know of any software that will map Sys-Ex to CC messages?

Happy to try old sw as I was amazed to find an an ancient utility MIDIview runs fine in Win7 (here if anyone needs it: http://www.e.kth.se/~e94_jen/filer/Program/MIDItools/).

Cheers.
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