farmpad v.1.3 - os x hack for padKontrol

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 11:55 am

No worries, i know what you mean... control, cc, note it all becomes a a bit of a blur after a while.....

Cheers
D

dBlicious · Post by **dBlicious** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 2:54 pm

Hey flycycle,

This thing is great! At first I thought lack of a GUI would be a problem but now I see how much flexibility it allows. Thanks for making it.

After using it a for a little while, I've got a handful of feature requests:

Does the encoder natively output a different message for cw/ccw like I assume it does? I'm working on a config for Guru and the file navigation uses separate note-ons to move up and down in the file browser. It would be nice to have different notes triggered depending which way the encoder is turned.

It would also be nice if the encoder had a relative mode. I know Live can support several flavors. That would be useful for endlessly scrolling through scenes.

I too want the ability to output keystrokes.

I'm with everyone on the desire to have selectscene remember the previous scene when it is released or toggled off. If you do implement it, please make it extend to group mode so that when a switch is toggled off by another switch, it still sends a message to go back to the original scene.

Make a selectscene:+1 and selectscene:-1 (or some other relative scene reference).

Ability to make assignments by lists or ranges. For example:

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scene:1-5
     channel:2-6

pad:1-4,10,6
     note:37-31

pad:13-16,9-12,5-8,1-4
     note:21-36

The last example makes it easy if you want to assign consecutive note numbers starting with the bottom pads (like Guru does).

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Fri Aug 29, 2008 3:55 pm

I route Farmpad into bomes, then it can have two cc's coming out of one knob, do the trick with the encoder you want and finally do the key strokes that you need!

The two together with a midi patchbay and the possibilities are endless!

Cheers
D

OvalGuy · Post by **OvalGuy** » Sun Sep 07, 2008 1:04 am

I like farmpad a lot, but I also got addicted to the visual note feedback PK [squared] gets thru the IAC bus. I’ve tried sending the notes directly from Live to farmpad, but apparently farmpad does not respond to midi note input. Flycycle, is this something that might be added in the future?

SMK · Post by **SMK** » Tue Sep 09, 2008 6:27 am

Well I'm new to farm Pad. I'm assuming that this software allows one to reprogram their Pad Kontrol but is the pad control dependent on the farmpad or can the new setting you create besaved as a scene or setting on the Pad Kontrol to be used else where on different midi gear or on a PC based system?

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 11:01 am

I believe you can't do that SMK... your farmpad config is only allowed by farmpad, that "hi-jacks" the padkontrol internal setup.

I've got a question:

In live 6, I'm able to assign one pad to multiple destinations, i.e, to trigger multiple clips with only one pad.

But I can't manage to do it with switches ??? I assign a switch to trigger a clip, but to make it trigger another clip simultaneously, in live it replaces the former clip assignation???

any idea fellows?

best regards

OvalGuy · Post by **OvalGuy** » Sat Sep 13, 2008 6:58 pm

I assign a switch to trigger a clip, but to make it trigger another clip simultaneously, in live it replaces the former clip assignation???

I kinda remember having this problem, too, but I just tried it in Live 7 and had no problem assigning a switch to multiple clips and controls. So, I went back to Live 6.0.10 and it still worked. I only get get the conflicting message when I try to assign the switch to two clips in the same track or to a clip and a scene, which makes sense.

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Sun Sep 14, 2008 10:02 am

yes you dig it !!

I was trying to assign some clips in the same live track... what a shame ; )

thank you and long life to farmad !!!

db120 · Post by **db120** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 8:01 am

Hello, is PC support still planned or no?

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 2:34 pm

I don't think flycycle has time and will do do it...

get a mac

db120 · Post by **db120** » Fri Nov 28, 2008 7:10 pm

That was helpful

my plans of migrating back to Mac are a year away... If you read this flycycle I'm ready to donate to the cause.

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Sat Nov 29, 2008 5:17 am

you're welcome

hope your wishes will one day be satisfied !

by the time get a lemur, lol

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Tue Dec 02, 2008 4:29 pm

dBlicious wrote:1) Does the encoder natively output a different message for cw/ccw like I assume it does? I'm working on a config for Guru and the file navigation uses separate note-ons to move up and down in the file browser. It would be nice to have different notes triggered depending which way the encoder is turned.

(...)

2) I too want the ability to output keystrokes.

1) exactly what I need.

I'm trying, with MIDISTROKE receiving padkontrol-farmpad midi out (in parallel of live, that receives it too), to assign the encoder to navigate UP and DOWN (in the browser as in the session view).

but no way, this encoder sends 0 to 127 when turned left AND right... ???

any idea how to handle this?

2) I use midistroke that is free for mac users. you can assign any midi CC or note to any combination of keystrokes of your choice...

Just set midistroke o receive data from farmpad, and rock on

by the way, I'm now in a new era, with a MIDISTROKED-FARMPADED-PADKONTROL !!!!!! that totally rocks!

I just need more switches and pots on the surface...

for the video I promised, it'll come, as I'm soon having a live gig I'm working really hard on my config. So it is for soon

cheeeeers
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S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Thu Dec 04, 2008 12:47 pm

Ahh i see now what you mean, i read the post on Ableton and couldn't sign in to ask you what you meant....

I think what your looking for is how to use bomes's rules....

What you need to do is ask bomes to store the last output value from the encoder and then run two translators, first if the new value is greater than the old, output a right keystroke etc.....

Not got anything like that set up at the moment on mine as all navigation is running from switches only but i want to move much of that to one of my 1Ds so when i get a chance at the weekend i'll have a look at what your trying to achieve (then i can use padKontrol for browser searching) and 1D for performance...

Cheers
D

monstrejumo · Post by **monstrejumo** » Fri Dec 05, 2008 1:16 pm

great advice !

What you need to do is ask bomes to store the last output value from the encoder and then run two translators, first if the new value is greater than the old, output a right keystroke etc.....

that looks great ! midistroke doesn't allow this kind of trick.

I'm now downloading bomes' 6 beta for mac and will give it a try this afternoon

thanks a lot

monstre