padKONTROL: farmpad question??

bartvd · Post by **bartvd** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:02 pm

Hi,

want i want is probably fairly simple.
I want to setup each button on the padkontrol to trigger a different ARM button on my tracks.
This i can do..
But i really like to see the light switched on on the button i pressed and killing the light on the previous pressed button.
So pushing a different button will light up that one and kill the previous light.
How can this be done?

thanks

autogen · Post by **autogen** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:06 pm

Pad Groups will help with this if I understand you correctly. For example: if you wanted pads 1-4 on scene 1 to be your arm controls, you would need to enter something like this in your config file

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scene:1
pad:1,2,3,4
group:1
mode:retrigger

This basically defines pads 1,2,3&4 as a group, of which only one pad can be lit at any one time. The 'mode:retrigger' is needed to tell the triggered pad to stay lit until another member of this group is triggered.

bartvd · Post by **bartvd** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 8:50 pm

thanks,

is there a manual or something to figure these things out?

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 9:32 pm

check out the read-mes with the file, once you get into it a little you will see it is easy.

NorthernMonkey · Post by **NorthernMonkey** » Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:11 pm

Anyone know if there is anything similar for Winblows?

bartvd · Post by **bartvd** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:27 am

hmm.. i must be too dumb for this.
tried your settings,, but still all pads keep being lit once pressed.
the light doesnt switch off when i press an other pad.

as i understand the textfiles included.
the retrigger code keeps sending data .. it doesnt look like it effects the light in the pad.
looks like this cannot be done..

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Thu Aug 21, 2008 12:58 pm

I'd bew grouping as before but setting the mode to switch or retain the above and set the default to off....

I don't think i ever got a setup to work with the light to show which tracks are armed but then i was trying to use the switches rather than the pads....

Farmpad is still the best thing ever though.... and no windows yet!

Cheers
D

autogen · Post by **autogen** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 1:34 am

bartvd wrote:hmm.. i must be too dumb for this.
tried your settings,, but still all pads keep being lit once pressed.
the light doesnt switch off when i press an other pad.

as i understand the textfiles included.
the retrigger code keeps sending data .. it doesnt look like it effects the light in the pad.
looks like this cannot be done..

I just tested it again, and the code above is working here. The pad doesn't blink as it receives the data, it just stays lit continously as it does with 'switch' mode. Then when you hit another pad in the group it turns itself off immediately.

I use it all the time so I know it can be done. Which version of Farmpad are you using?

bartvd · Post by **bartvd** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 8:44 am

@autogen,

ive got i.3.1
i copied your code in the terminal.
but it doesnt work.

all lights stay lit when i hit once on it.
the more buttons i hit the more stay lit.
heres what i did..:

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Last login: Sun Aug 24 14:34:57 on console
Welcome to Darwin!
computer-van-bart:~ Bart$ farmpad
farmpad v1.3.1
------------
Connected to padKontrol.
Entering active mode.
Active mode entered.
scene:1 
pad:1,2,3,4 
group:1 
mode:retrigger

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 2:26 pm

you need to make a text file and tell farmpad to load the file when you launch farmpad.

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:15 pm

i don't think you can use text edit to do this either.

i use vi, you may want to look into something like textwrangler or bbedit.
pico is fairly easy to use as well.

pico and vi are built into osx, you'll have to go look for the other two.

autogen · Post by **autogen** » Mon Aug 25, 2008 3:55 pm

Yeah, you need to create a configuration text file then tell farmpad to launch with the settings defined in this file. Textedit will create the file, but you need to make sure you are saving a plain text file by going to 'format' then choose 'make plain text' before you save the file, or just changing the extension from rtf to txt once saved will probably work too.

Say you decided to save your config file as 'my_config_file.txt' in a folder called 'farmpad' in your user folder. To launch farmpad with the settings contained in that config file you would need to direct farmpad to the file by launching it with a line in terminal something like this

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 farmpad -c ~/farmpad/my_config_file.txt

supamonsta · Post by **supamonsta** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:33 pm

every text editor that can save as ".txt" files will do the job,

by the way, I can't manage to type this font "~" on my mac (here I'm on the office PC, lol), anyone could help ??

Jekblad · Post by **Jekblad** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 1:48 pm

hey guys, I've tried to get farmpad going awhile ago but dropped it when stuff came up. I've looked for a yahoo groups or something to help me get started but couldn't find one.

Does anyone have a walk through place for a total terminal noob? Of course i'm not totally sure what i want all the buttons to do either, but probably using midistroke for some browser navigation stuff.

Thanks for any help anyone can point me too.

supamonsta · Post by **supamonsta** » Tue Aug 26, 2008 2:18 pm

check the Korg official forums (www.korgforums.com...)

search "farmpad". the man called "FLYCYLE" is THE creator. the biggest (and older) farmpad "topic" contains lots of answers, great for noobies

also,

READ AND USE THE README text provided with farmpad, watch and use, copy paste parts of the examples.txt provided too, you'll learn lots of interesting basis.

you don't need to be a "terminal beast", the ONLY thing you got to manage with terminal is to run farmpad with your proper config file (see above).

the rest of "programming" is only text editor.

new 1.3.1 is really useful, easily, understandable for most of it.

you'll get soon to do what you wanna do.

good luck