Problem with Relative MIDI Controller

octex · Post by **octex** » Sat Aug 06, 2005 3:14 pm

I just discovered a weird bug? in Live 5.
The endless encoders on Doepfer Pocket Dial have and acceleration function which increases the values quicker when its turned quickly, and slowly when turned slowly (meaning that when you turn it slowly, you need couple of rotation to get from mix to max value, and when turned quickly it goes for min to max in one rotation).
But this acceleration function somehow isn't working in Live 5 when I set the Pocket Dial to any of the relative modes (it's always going slowly needing a couple of turns to get from min to max) but it works when set to absolute.
Just for test I've started Live 4 again, and it works there without any problems, so something must have changed in version 5.
I've tried all couple of different relative modes, but it didn't help.

I guess I have to find a work around for my gig tomorrow, but it would be nice if this could get fixed soon.

schildknecht · Post by **schildknecht** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 10:25 am

i'm experiencing the same problem here (with L5) ...
a fix is highly appreciated ...

regards
schildknecht

uese · Post by **uese** » Sun Aug 07, 2005 1:00 pm

yeah, i had the same experiences while beta testing. here is my post, but i never got an anwser from ableton:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=22752

it improved a little bit with the latest betas, but never was the same as in Live4.
Hope they while sorte it out sometimes!

octex · Post by **octex** » Mon Aug 08, 2005 8:43 pm

The weirdest thing happend at the gig last night. I've setup everything, and all of a sudden pocket dial's acceleration was working again.
The only thing I remeber being different from when I tried it at home, was that in Properties/MIDI, when you can select Track, Sync and remote, I've set Track to Off next to the MIDI in to which pocket dial was conected, the only one selected was Remote.
Didn't have time yet to check again if this is really what solved the problem.