ableton/motormix/mackie

huupsel · Post by **huupsel** » Mon Oct 02, 2006 9:35 am

Hi there,

i just read a lot of motormix-related items on this forum, seems like there are many motormix-lovers around...

...including me! The motormix is the best midi-controller on this planet. Robust, fader feedback, simple layout...it's a real "mixer".

Too bad the motormix isn't the most supported midi-controller on this planet. It's not sending simple CC's like other controllers (or note's and pitchbends, like the mackie-control).

Because i really wanted to use the motormix in live, i started making a MAX-application to convert all the motormix-messages into the mackie-messages.
Everything worked out fine, but a the time i added bank switch and other extra's, the whole patch went out in a chaoss... So that project ended in an application that converts motormixmessages in general midi-messages, with feedback included. Now i can use my motormix with live, but there are offcourse more interesting ways. Use a motormix with cubase or with Logic, and you'll see what i mean.

So i wrote an email to Carl Malone, the man from CM-labs, with the question if they could code the mackie-protocol in the firmware of the motormix (like the bcf's from behringer and a lot of other controller can).
They allready have a kind of "BABY-HUI" mode included in the firmware, so why not the more famous mackie-control protocol...
This was his reply:

We are coding that now. We will call it the "universal mode".

Best regards,
Carl Malone

Whow, that made me happy! If this is true, we don't have to wait for ableton to implement the motormix in Live! Just connect the motormix, choose mackie-control as your controller and...make music and have fun!

This reply from Carl is about 4 months old. I wrote him back later about this, without any reply. No news about this on www.cmlabs.net
Wnat's going on Carl Malone??

MY POINT:

motormix lovers, write a mail to Carl ([email protected]) and thell him you would love to use the motormix with live and with other mackie-supported software. So cm-labs can start/continue/finish their "universal mode".

OR...

Ableton, please include native support for the motormix! In my opinion, this could be even more interesting than cm's "universal mode". A lot of users would really appreciate this.

thanks,

-huupsel-

aekorps · Post by **aekorps** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:05 am

Please Ableton, please!

bensuthers · Post by **bensuthers** » Sat Aug 11, 2007 1:36 am

I've been beta testing a solution to translate motormix to Mackie Control. Works a treat.

my motormix if finally out of the closet.

aekorps · Post by **aekorps** » Sun Aug 12, 2007 11:26 pm

Could you please post a link for the software you're using? Does it work on a Mac?

bensuthers wrote:I've been beta testing a solution to translate motormix to Mackie Control. Works a treat.

my motormix if finally out of the closet.