MPK49 track select?

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barbarism
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MPK49 track select?

Post by barbarism » Fri Mar 26, 2010 8:45 am

Just picked up an MPK49 and I don't understand the behavior of the track select/arm buttons. Is it supposed to stay in sync with Live? Sometimes the light is on and the track is deactivated, you'll press another track and it won't switch and activate that track or the light will go off and the track with activate and so on. Thoughts?

I do have the Live Lite profile activated.

cotdagoo
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Re: MPK49 track select?

Post by cotdagoo » Fri Mar 26, 2010 12:56 pm

unless you're using live lite.. there's not much point using that template. check out the vyzex editor and map things out a little better, or load a general midi template and just map things through live to get some real use out of the mpk

barbarism
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Re: MPK49 track select?

Post by barbarism » Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:10 pm

makes sense. alright. I've give it a go.

Is the communication two-way between live and the MPK, where a track launch can trigger the track select light?

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Re: MPK49 track select?

Post by cotdagoo » Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:40 pm

barbarism wrote:makes sense. alright. I've give it a go.

Is the communication two-way between live and the MPK, where a track launch can trigger the track select light?
nope, just one way unfortunately.

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Re: MPK49 track select?

Post by barbarism » Fri Mar 26, 2010 1:42 pm

Thanks. Well that sucks. I like what they are doing on the Novation MK II with two way syncing. I'm a bit disappointed in the level of integration.

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