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The Max Patcher I linked to in my preceding post works! You can get any RGB color you want on a pad using the following SysEx message:

240 71 127 21 4 0 8 pad 0 rHi rLo gHi gLo bHi bLo 247

Where pad is a number identifying the pad, which you can calculate by multiplying the row by 8 and adding the ...

I haven’t had a chance to test this yet, but it looks like there is a SysEx message that you can use to specify the precise RGB values you want a particular pad to light up with! Here is a Max patcher which uses it to turn your Push into a very low-resolution video monitor with your web cam. Once I ...

I’m working on supporting Ableton Push as a control surface for Afterglow , an open source lighting control system, and I came across this page while trying to figure out how to color the pads. It was helpful, and I would like to contribute some additional discoveries I have made. I wanted to be ...