Mackie Controller - auto banking

I got inspired to go back in with coding, now that i was having some issues with the current script using the Mac OS IAC midi devices, as they apparently have some new behaviour since Big Sur or Monterey.

New version of this is on the way now. I am re-writing the midi loop now in a way where it should have significantly better performance, and no need for a sleep timer (probably, but initial tests seem to indicate there’s no need anymore now).
I migrated the script to work in python 3 now.
It’s still under construction, but I am refining the logic, and right now I am keeping track of which direction to bank if you use track selectors on the mackie controller, and I’m considering options for figuring out a faster algorithm for auto-banking, which really shouldn’t be too bad.
Ideally I want to omit the need to work with a max number of skips to attempt, and have it automatically work it out.

At this point I should add that I am mainly targeting a single fader controller (I am using the Behringer X-Touch One), and as I don’t have a mackie controller with 8 faders, I don’t have any way to test how the following things will behave on those.
A thing I’m working on is setting a nicer track name on the display, as well as opening up for using 2 rows of the LCD to display longer names.
This thread opened up for some ideas regarding this: Creative thinking needed (?), retrieve track names from Cubase to MIDI or OSC - #22 by Shor

Basically making use of the MCU commands to go into eq, channel strip, aux send modes you will get a longer track name, so I am thinking about making use of this to read out track names. It’s a bit tricky to figure out how to do this in the best way.
I already made some functions for conveniently setting names making use of both rows, but I need to work out how to override the original mackie behaviour in a way where it all works without glitches.
Rough idea right now is to figure out if a track change is performed, and then switch modes to get a long name, and then switch back to the ‘normal’ mode again.

The names will come after working out a better way to autobank, and I am hopefully going to be done with that this coming week.
Unfortunately this is really an ‘as is’ solution, but I’m thinking this version will be significantly easier to work with and setup. I’m hoping there wont be more configuration than naming your midi devices.

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