Changing composite modes with midi in Arena6

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newfuturenow
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Changing composite modes with midi in Arena6

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I am working with Arena 6 and having difficulty changing my workflow from Arena 5.
It used to be easy to swap between two chosen comppsite modes for any layer with the click of a single midi button. Now in Arena 6 I have no control of this, I have a midi value assigned to the composite layer button, but because I have no selections to set in Arena 6 (iin Arena 5 it used to be 3 selections) The midi action now defaults to the final composite mode in the list 'to White'.
Is there any way around this? I just want to swap between ADD and DARKEN with a click of a button. Thanks!

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Re: Changing composite modes with midi in Arena6

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You can create duplicate midi shortcuts to different specific blend modes to get the same behavior as in R5:
https://resolume.com/support/en/midi-sh ... -shortcuts
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Re: Changing composite modes with midi in Arena6

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Thanks Zoltan,
So does each composite mode have its own numeric value that can be targeted by a midi shortcut?
Does it take a bit of guesswork to find the midi value specific to each composite mode?

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Re: Changing composite modes with midi in Arena6

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If you map notes then you'll be able to chose the exact blend you'd like for the shortcut in the Mode selector.
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