So, I made a few “manual macros”, i.e. I couldn’t figure out how to find/install/use the macro buttons in Companion for our DM7, but I was able to install the Yamaha RCP module and make things happen on our DM7 using buttons and many steps.
We mix in LCR, and I bring Lead vocals into a Lead DCA and BGV into a BGV DCA as needed. In one song, this person sings lead, in the next song they sing BGV part. So I HAVE been programming scenes in the DM7 with Recall safe and leaving DCA assign, MX level and assign and PAN unsafe in order to use the scenes to move people into and out of Lead or BGV DCAs. It works, but it takes time and checking each channel in turn.
Enter Yamaha RCP and Companion 3.5.2(presently). I was able to make a button that toggles DCAs and MXs in order to get a selected mic channel ON in Lead DCA, OFF in BGV DCA and on in LEAD effects sends (or off in BGV effects sends) as needed. One button per mic channel I need to affect.
This goes to a post I read earlier about the RCP NOT having a “Selected Channel” command, so I just used three (so far) buttons with a bunch of steps to affect the channges I wanted to specific channels. Maybe that’s safer anyway for a newby like me for now.
I"m happy to share what I’ve done in companion if anyone wants it. But I am open to efficiency ideas and I’m hoping for a “selected channel” option at some point.
I also note that I cannot affect the channel slot label color as indicated in the RCP commands noted in Companion. I infer that that command should change the channel label color, but it doesn’t seem to do that for me right now. Maybe I’m using it wrong?
Anyway, thanks for a great, and useful module. I’m still trying and learning things…
Well, not completely sure how you’re currently doing your actions, but if it were me, I’d have a button for “singer A lead” and “singer B lead” and so on for each singer that does lead. The button would have several actions (not steps) to set the proper mics to the proper DCAs.
The channel colour feedback should just automagically set the button colour to match the channel colour. Is this not working for you?
Sorry, wrong terminology; but yeah, each button hits one specific channel and has several actions- toggle DCA for lead or BGV, toggle MX send for lead or BGV reverb or delay send, change button background color and name in feedback - I expected to be able to change console scribble strip background color but that’s not happening for me.
If I understand correctly, that is supposed to change the corresponding channel label on the console? I’d that’s correct, then yes I’m saying that isn’t working for me
Maybe I did this wrong: can I put the command to change color in the feedback area of the button? I need the change of DCA to trigger a change of channel color. I would like the channel color to follow the DCA color. I will send the config… CanvasAMPNuc_2025-03-09-0801.zip (2.5 KB)
Gotcha.
The way the color feedback works was at one time the only way to have a button follow the color of a channel, but the downside is that the “auto-create variable” function isn’t there. There are some changes coming in v4 of Companion which should allow better control of feedback and variables, but for now, I would recommend doing it this way:
Duplicate your step 1 actions to step 2.
Change all the toggles to ON and OFF as per your requirements
Add a color change for the input channel
This is better for 2 reasons - First, it works the way you want, Second, there’ s no way for the DCA assignments to get “out of sync”. e.g. If you happened to manually assign a channel to both DCA 6&7, pressing the button will just toggle both so then they’d both be off. This new way, the button will always make sure that the DCA assignment is correct.
I have updated the first button as per my suggestion. (ON/OFFs may need to be adjusted as I’m not sure which way things are meant to be, but you get the idea.) CanvasAMPNuc_2025-03-09-0801-Andy.companionconfig.zip (3.1 KB)
OK, maybe I tried this wrongly, but I imported the config and tried it as written, but the color of the channel label on the console does not change. That is the idea, correct? Anyway, that’s what I’m after.
As I said, I might have things backwards, it was channel 65 I believe that should have changed colours. Look at the last action in Step 1 and Step 2 where it’s set to change the color. Note that I only edited the first button. You can tell because it now has 2 steps.
I saw and edited the last action in each step, I see the functions happening but the channel on the console does not change color. I see the stream deck button change color, but not the console channel. The config I downloaded didn’t have on/off or step two, but per your suggestion I did that. Still no console channel color change.
