Visual Feedback for pK

dru · Post by **dru** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:08 am

http://farmaudio.com/

Sorry if it's a repost.

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 11:11 am

ah.. is this thing actually working now? i tried it a few months back and it was flakey..

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Sun Jan 27, 2008 12:53 pm

It's much better now and you can fiddle around with it with config files....

Having mine set so i get clip launch and stops for 8 channels and then another channel with a drum rack mapped....

Cheers
D

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Jan 29, 2008 1:12 am

can you easily change midi channel with this?

I need to use all 16 midi channels can i do this with farmpad?

autogen · Post by **autogen** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 4:28 pm

^ this is what I'm hoping for too, I'm not sure if it's possible at the moment from my limited time spent playing with it. Its definitely worth checking out though.
If the functionality this offers could be used across all 16 MIDI channels, it would be the definitive answer to making the lights on the pK work as they should have done from the start. The 'groups' and 'retrigger groups' modes make it an awesome addition to the pK imo.

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 6:58 pm

Currently each pad, or switch or encoder.... can transmit on just one channel, these can be different channels to each other but only one channel per pad....

However Flycycle has been working and testing a version that you can save 16 scenes into (via a config file) so hitting one pad or switch (you choose it) and a pad will switch it the channel you want....

I've got it all up ancd running on just one channel and bar it going off line if you leave it on for days on end i;'ve had no problems and it's made my abletonning come alive...

Cheers
D

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Mon Feb 04, 2008 11:35 pm

If I can change channels on it, I'll be able to use farmpad the same way I'm using pK[squared].

I'd love an update if this gets worked out.

The idea for me is 16 scenes each on it's own channel, and the ability to switch scenes easily.

Jaju · Post by **Jaju** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 10:04 am

flycyle has finished farmpad v. 1.0 which supports configuration of all 16 scenes

get it here http://farmaudio.com/farmpad

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:05 pm

very nice, i can't wait to try it!

Jaju · Post by **Jaju** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 2:15 pm

I think farmpad makes padKONTROL a very good controller for launching clips and scenes in Live. I learned that you should set the clips' launch mode to gate to make them stop and start according to the pads.

One thing that I really miss (and hope that i just don't know how to do) is a way to make Live send MIDI to the padKONTROL. If this is possible the ligths would update so that they always where correct according to the clips they where assigned to. Then everything would be perfect

Is this possible? I know that Live sends back the same MIDI message which is assigned to a parameter (e.g. clips, scenes, effects on/off etc.). It sends these messages back to MIDI outputs where 'remote' is activated. But even if I activate remote for all inputs of the padKONTROL nothing happens

Any ideas?

nobbystylus · Post by **nobbystylus** » Wed Feb 06, 2008 3:03 pm

Jaju wrote: One thing that I really miss (and hope that i just don't know how to do) is a way to make Live send MIDI to the padKONTROL. If this is possible the ligths would update so that they always where correct according to the clips they where assigned to. Then everything would be perfect

Is this possible? I know that Live sends back the same MIDI message which is assigned to a parameter (e.g. clips, scenes, effects on/off etc.). It sends these messages back to MIDI outputs where 'remote' is activated. But even if I activate remote for all inputs of the padKONTROL nothing happens

Any ideas?

you might wanna check out PK squared instead from the covert ops..

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:30 pm

thank you farmpad!!

this is exactly what i need!!

farmpad remembers where it was light when you switch scenes!

nice

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 4:57 pm

who makes farmpad?

this thing is great

i'v made a step sequencer, I had it totally working with pk[squared] but i can build it better with farmpad.

now the question?

I really want 32 scenes 2X each midi channel, this will allow me to use two separate bars , which can be edited separately then linked or played individually or what ever

64 scenes could be 4 bars!.. you would know which group you were on with the side buttons

S4racen · Post by **S4racen** » Sun Feb 10, 2008 6:37 pm

Farmpad is made by Flycycle (Ian)...
Check out the posts at the Korg forums and you'll see he's open to make any improvements you can think of....

Top Bloke!

Cheers
D

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Wed Feb 13, 2008 2:17 am

Here is my farm pad Step Sequencer

It's very basic and made to be expanded. I used all defaults for the instruments, so the sounds should load up for everybody.

In all honesty I only spent about 2 minutes putting the sounds together for this set, there are 8 simplers on track 2. I wanted it to be easy to share.

There is one impulse on track one

scenes 1-8 on farmpad control impulse, and 9-16 control the simplers

load the set, launch the two clips, it will be silent.. plug away at the pads to activate notes.. expand the set and enjoy

launch farmpad with this command:

farmpad -s 1