Control wrote:Control wrote:
Just looking at the picture on your blog of the app and noticed under the "Kaossilator Pro" settings you have selected the KPRO "PAD" and "SOUND"
Pretty sure I had just selected "Kaossilator Pro" from the list.. I'll try again when i get home in case that was the issue!
Tried this, but all i see is "Kaossilator Pro" and not one for KPRO Pad / Sound.
Doesn't seem like i can get this to work
Any idea what may fix this?
Finally got this to work myself tonight -- took quite a bit of fiddling around, but well worth it for me! Thanks again, nonisja!!
I use a Mac for my music, so it may be different on a PC. I also have a *lot* of MIDI ports, so it was pretty confusing to get started -- you'll see why in a moment. Also one of my Keyboards is another Korg USB device, which has its own USB MIDI channel called "SOUND" like the KP, so I had to make sure I got the right one (the KP's).
Finally, I found that the KP would quite often apparently "lose the USB connection" -- the notes played and program changes are being shown in nonisja's Notes app, but the KP is not responding with audio. When I had it all working, it did this occasionally (after a few minutes of playing, typically -- and I see similar behaviour in other apps in my set-up -- I probably just have too many MIDI things going on). I found I could get it back working again by just disconnecting the USB cable at the KP end, leaving it out for a few seconds, and then plugging it back in. No need to restart the app.
Anyway, here's what my set-up/experience looks like in case it helps Control and future travellers:
- On the Mac, my pertinent MIDI ports are labelled as follows, with the full names reported in Ableton Live (for example, which I happened to have handy), but the Notes app only shows the name in the parentheses, not the full name -- this can lead to a lot of confusion with ambiguity between which port is which:
Keyboard:
MIDI IN - "PORT 1"
[Full name in Live: MIDI Express XT (Port 1) -- yours will be something different of course]
KP:
MIDI IN - "PAD"
[Full name in Live: KAOSSILATOR PRO (PAD)]
MIDI OUT - "SOUND"
[Full name in Live: KAOSSILATOR PRO (SOUND)]
- Notice how the app only shows the part of the full port name that's in parentheses, and it makes it all CAPS too, even if it is not -- PORT 1, PAD, SOUND. This can be confusing! (From Control's experience, if that was on a PC, it sounds like maybe this is the other way around and that is why you saw just ""KAOSSILATOR PRO" for both the above and not PAD or SOUND. Maybe?)
- FWIW, I also used my Korg Triton Extreme keyboard as an alternative keyboard controller (my other one above you can consider a generic keyboard connected to a MOTU MIDI Express XT) which came up as:
Keyboard:
MIDI IN - "KEYBOARD"
[Full name in Live: TRITON Extreme (KEYBOARD)]
- Tip:
Once you have all your ports selected correctly in the app and you are sure which is which (or be prepared to step through each systematically if things are ambiguous!), then just for kicks unplug/replug the USB cable to make sure the KP has a "good" USB connection and it then should all work for sure...
Other things I noticed:
- On my iMac (Intel Core 2 Duo) it takes a long time to display the user interface -- the menu bar shows it has started quite quickly, but the user interface doesn't come up for quite a while (minute or more?). I think it takes a long time to detect all my MIDI ports. If you have the same, be patient until the user interface shows up.
- Nifty that you can still play on the XY pad as well as the Keyboard, yay!
- If you change Keyboard in the app to another MIDI device/port, then even though you didn't change the KP in any way, it still seems to "break the USB connection" to the KP -- taking out the USB cable (as above) and re-plugging it back in after a few seconds seems to get things working again.
THANKS AGAIN TO nonisja FOR THIS NEAT TOOL!!
