Its pretty badass! Look, it maps all over the place…
“Wow, watch out!” says that bird. Ew, its mapped to a return track. Oh, it shows the names on Push?
Oh my gosh! Oh, the Honey Mapper is just crazy…
The Honey Mapper is referred to by the Guinness Book of World Records as the most fearless Mapper in all the Ableton kingdom, it really doesn’t give a shit.
So after about 50 different rewrites of Sixteen Macros, I ended up with this device.
It only works inside a Instrument Rack or MIDI Effect Rack. You choose which of the 8 Macros control the device and what it is mapped to.
One macro can control multiple parameters.
Once a parameter is assigned, it is locked. But you can unlock it by simply turning off the Rack.
The Honey Mapper device only stores what it is controlling, the envelope and which Macro controls it. So it doesn't mess up any parameter values when you reload a preset or device. But the control is absolute. Meaning once mapped, the mapped parameter will jump to where it is supposed to be in relation to the Macro and the parameter envelope.
You can set the minimum and maximum range and anything in between with an envelope. The X axis relates to the Macro going from 0 to 127, the Y axis relates to the range of the mapped parameter. The curve also lets you control when a button turns on or off. Or lets you skip values, for example when mapped to filter type selection.
Since this device works as the guts of a Rack Device, you get all the benefits that Racks have. So you can name your macros and see those names on Push and other controllers with a screen. You do have to enter them manually, but that is also the plus side.. Custom Names! You can also name the Rack as a Bank.
And it'll work with any control surface or with MIDI Learn. And you can map macros to macros to macros to macros and control it all with a bunch of LFO's...
There's no feedback loop protection though, so if things get jittery, it means you mapped something directly to itself. Press Clear in that case.
Duplicating a mapping won't work. So press clear if you duplicate a device. One macro controlling 24 parameters = 1 undo action.
Its as good as done, but it doesn't hurt to give it a proper testing before releasing it into the wild. It still needs annotations and maybe some comments inside the device. Though its actually fairly simple on the inside.
I've attached a project that shows it working in a basic form. There are so many tricks you can do with this device, it'll take a while to explore them all.
Click here to download.
