huskervu v1.0.1

huskervu is a fake Mackie MCU display, designed to use with fake MCU controllers without an LCD. Windows XP/2003 only sorry.

Inspired by the very fine work of Namihei at the http://www.geocities.jp/mackicrokontrol

huskervu was developed using Visual Studio 2003, and is written in C#, and uses the also very fine C# midi toolkit from Leslie Stanford http://www.codeproject.com/cs/media/MIDIToolkit.asp

You'll need the .NET Framework 1.1 installed to run it. If you don't have it, you'll need to download it from Microsoft (23MB). The huskervu installer will tell you if you don't have it already.

You'll also need a virtual midi port driver like MidiYoke installed http://www.midiox.com

Once installed, you'll find huskervu under Start/Programs/husker.

huskervu puts an icon in the System Tray/Notification Area, you can access the menu from there, or from the huskervu display itself.

Select a Midi Input. This should be one of your virtual midi ports (like Midi Yoke NT:1).

Select a Midi Ouput. This should be the port your fake MCU is connected to (this is used to pass through the visual feedback info to the controller, like the led rings on a BCR2000).

You can set the display size to anything that suits (from very tiny to very large), then set a font that fits. You can drag the display to a second monitor too.

In your host, configure your MCU device as follows:

Input: set to the port the hardware controller is on (e.g. BCR2000)

Output: set to the same virtual midi port as above (Midi Yoke NT:1)

That should cover what you need...have fun! send any feedback to: husker@clear.net.nz

Release History

v1.0.0 - 2 October 2005 - initial bug free version

v1.0.1 - 3 October 2005 - bug fix 1, handles bad sysex without crashing (thanks go to djsubject for debug info)