praise the blue-hand-midi-assigning in live 8

pepezabala · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 7:51 am

uh-oh. Just felt the urge to tell you guys that the midi-assigning of device-title-bars is very joyful.

jumping from device to device and controlling it's macros is sooo easy and mouseless now.

logic_user99 · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 8:01 am

pepezabala wrote:

uh-oh. Just felt the urge to tell you guys that the midi-assigning of device-title-bars is very joyful.

jumping from device to device and controlling it's macros is sooo easy and mouseless now.

Stop eeeeeet! I don't have the money to upgrade to L8, yet.

selthym · **Joined:** Sat Oct 07, 2006 2:20 pm **Posts:** 362

Sure is one of the best things in Live 8.

Emissary · **Joined:** Tue Jan 27, 2004 11:27 am **Posts:** 2346

pepezabala wrote:

uh-oh. Just felt the urge to tell you guys that the midi-assigning of device-title-bars is very joyful.

jumping from device to device and controlling it's macros is sooo easy and mouseless now.

what what what....i missed this one, how do you do it?

pepezabala · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 9:50 am

ok, I have the nanokontrol and set it up in a way that I can control macros with it's encoders.

In Live8 I can midi-assign the buttons of the nanokontrol to device title bars. Pressing a button now makes the device go into focus, the blue hand appears on it and I can control its 8 macros with the encoders of the nanokontrol.

So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ....

albotnz · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 9:51 am

ooo yeah i missed this too... watching...

logic_user99 · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 10:06 am

pepezabala wrote:

ok, I have the nanokontrol and set it up in a way that I can control macros with it's encoders.

In Live8 I can midi-assign the buttons of the nanokontrol to device title bars. Pressing a button now makes the device go into focus, the blue hand appears on it and I can control its 8 macros with the encoders of the nanokontrol.

So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ....

Oh, WIN! Nice one, dude. In theory, you could set up 64 devices like that with an MPD24... Hahaha. Eeeexcellent. I can feel some gear-selling coming on to get me an upgrade to L8...

Leon Tricker · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 11:16 am

This is a fantastic feature!

I have been holding off upgrading due to cash problems, but I can't resist much longer...

p8guitar · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:15 pm

pepezabala wrote:

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So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ....

18 buttons?
My nanokontrol has got 8 buttons for parameters and 8 buttons for controlling the nanokontrol itself (learn, view etc.).

3dot... · **Joined:** Tue Feb 20, 2007 11:10 pm **Posts:** 6241

it's from way before L8 you know... 6...or 5.....but yeah it rules.
I have a problem where my 'lock' button in my setup stopped working since L8... can't figure out why.

anamexis · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:44 pm

p8guitar wrote:

pepezabala wrote:

...
So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ....

18 buttons?
My nanokontrol has got 8 buttons for parameters and 8 buttons for controlling the nanokontrol itself (learn, view etc.).

What? That doesn't sound like a nanoKontrol to me.

p8guitar · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 12:59 pm

anamexis wrote:

p8guitar wrote:

pepezabala wrote:

...
So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ....

18 buttons?
My nanokontrol has got 8 buttons for parameters and 8 buttons for controlling the nanokontrol itself (learn, view etc.).

What? That doesn't sound like a nanoKontrol to me.

oops. I mixed that up with the nocturn. :oops:

8O · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 1:09 pm

3dot... wrote:

it's from way before L8 you know... 6...or 5.....but yeah it rules.
I have a problem where my 'lock' button in my setup stopped working since L8... can't figure out why.

I think L8 is the first version that the device title bars themselves are midi-mappable, no? It's a lovely feature... very handy...

Tympanic · **Joined:** Mon Sep 03, 2007 11:22 am **Posts:** 266

Quote:

So with the 18 buttons on the nanokontrol I can assign 18 devices and control its macros instantly, without looking at the screen. And now multiply that by 4, because the nanokontrol has 4 "scenes" ..

Hey pepezabala,

can you please explain point by point ho you edited the userconfig to do that?
Or, if u don´t use the userconfig, how do you do that anyways?
Please, give a step by step explanation, i´m sure i´m not the only one interested
in that!

cheers and thanks

Daniel

sporkles · **Posted:** Wed May 27, 2009 2:04 pm

This is done simply by entering midi map mode, clicking the device title bar and pushing the
button you want to map to that particular device. You can assign computer keyboard keys as well,
of course.

Both midi map and key map mode are entered in the upper right corner of the Live interface.

And yes, it's a fantastic feature which has moved us further in the direction of mouseless
navigation (Live 8 only, though).

Tympanic wrote:

Hey pepezabala,

can you please explain point by point ho you edited the userconfig to do that?
Or, if u don´t use the userconfig, how do you do that anyways?
Please, give a step by step explanation, i´m sure i´m not the only one interested
in that!

cheers and thanks

Daniel