Wholehog MIDI Show Control Information

How to read an MSC event

To get the Hog to do a Go on 34.4 on Cuelist 1 you need to be seeing:

F0 7F 01 02 01 01 33 34 2E 34 00 31 F7 (the last F7 byte is truncated in the event monitor).

Which means:

F0 7F 01 02 01

This is the standard start string to tell a Hog with a device ID of 1 and a format no. of 1 that a MSC command follows . . .

01

this is a go command followed by

33 34 2E 34

cue 34.4 - each digit is represented separately, as themselves plus 30 (e.g. digit 8 would be hex 38 and digit 5 would be hex 35) and the point is provided by the 2E byte

00

null byte

31

cuelist number 1

F7

end of message (you don't see this in event monitor)

Notes

• The classic Go command in MSC goes (ignoring the F0 7F 01 02 01 prefix and the F7 at the end):
  01 <Q number> 00 <Q list> 00 <Q path>
• The Hog doesn't use the Q path command in this way, so it will ignore it. Changing pages on the Hog uses the 1D command:
  1D <page no.>
• If your choose button is not lit over your master cuelist on the Hog, the commands will not work

  Not using the cuelist number is like using the Big Go button.

• There is no way to distinguish between scenes and cuelists. If you want to trigger a scene, give the CUE_PATH a value of 5 and the cue number the scene number you would like to trigger