Only got myself a Behringer x-touch mini yesterday and discovered AAO last night (demo only) for MSFS. Still in the playing around phase but I am looking to buy it shortly.

One issue I am having is that, given the large amount of events, how to know which one to use. Is it trial and error or is there a way of clicking on the button etc in MSFS and being able to see what event it relates to ?

I am trying to set up Midi controller with the JF Piper Arrow 3 so I can access cabin and panel lights etc using it. 

There is a lot to learn. 😃

 

1 hour ago, Sybull said:

Is it trial and error

Yes. AAO can help a little bit by scanning for LVar and Hvar names, but it can only tell you that they exist, not  what they do.

If you are lucky, then the plane you want to control uses the default simulator events. Those you will find both in the AAO treelists and in the SDK documentation. But in many cases, and especially in MSFS, the developers use their own invented custom LVars or HVars to operate their plane - and those are rarely ever documented. 

In that case you are left with three options:

- Hope that somebody else has figured them out and either made an AAO profile to download or posted the variable/event names online

- Use the MSFS developer mode, specifically the Model Behavior Debug console, to observe what happens when you click on the buttons in the VC

- Analyze the model behavior XML files of the plane to find out what is expected.

With the native MSFS planes some actions are a lot more complicated that just setting a variable or actuating an event - you will have to replicate the expected code as an RPN script in AAO. Which brings you right back to the same three choices...

Edited May 20, 20215 yr by Lorby_SI

Thankyou for that. I suspected it was not going to be that  straight forward (but had to ask just in case it was). 

I totally forgot about the Developer mode. Will have a look.

I might start looking in and placing questions on he JF forum to learn more about that plane's workings.

2 hours ago, Sybull said:

Only got myself a Behringer x-touch mini yesterday and discovered AAO last night (demo only) for MSFS. Still in the playing around phase but I am looking to buy it shortly.

I saw on Thomann.de that some people were using the Behringer for Flight sim and was intrigued about that. Although I do use DAWs, I've never been too enamoured with using things like a Mackie or stuff like that to control the DAW, but for flights sims and 38 quid that's eight rotary controls, a slider and eighteen buttons in a quite nice USB box.

Behringer come in for a bit of stick sometimes, not least because they use plastic housings on their stomp boxes, but I've got four of theirs on my board, and they're pretty hard-wearing and most of them compare pretty favourably with their Boss equivalents for a fraction of the price. In fact if you include the TC compressor on my board which does have a metal case, that is five, because Behringer owns the TC Electronics company:

So I'll be interested to hear how you get on with this for flight simming. Be sure to let us all know!

Edited May 20, 20215 yr by Chock

24 minutes ago, Chock said:

So I'll be interested to hear how you get on with this for flight simming. Be sure to let us all know!

Ibanez's "Tube Screamer" would take on a whole new meaning 🙂

Just now, mattn said:

Ibanez's "Tube Screamer" would take on a whole new meaning 🙂

I'm going to try plugging my overdrive into MSFS to see if the Cessna 152 will go faster. 🚀

I'm not sure that those boxes are even MIDI devices?

But you could use a keyboard, drum/beat box or a guitar MIDI pickup to operate the control surfaces of the plane. I wonder what the "aileron-riff" would sound like for different airports...