Visual Feedback for pK

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:03 am

Does this crack the visual feedback issue when triggering clips?

I know guys have invested a lot time programming your config files, but would you be so kind to share?

It'll give me a good starting point to start work on my own setup.

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 12:45 am

no light issues with clips, and if you switch scenes the lights are retained when you switch back.

i get visual feedback for clips, and if you set the clip to trigger via gate mode you can turn the clip on and off with a pad!

try out the default setup and then decide what you want to change.

I think more then 16 scenes and the defaults don't work right as the cc's are still the same for all the pads.. I dunno on that for sure, but it was like that before, so more then 16 scenes and you need to assign cc's for each pad.

checkout the example config files in the .dmg those will help you begin.

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:36 pm

Doc,

Are you saying thats its possible to assign all 16 pads within a scene to 16 clips within a channel.

Selecting the next scene will turn off the previous clips light?

I normally use Live to dj and split tracks into sections.

Oh, and hows the step squencer coming on, i've been using the version you made for the pksquared App,

thanks

D

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 7:48 pm

^^^ yes that's exactly what I'm saying

and if you use follow actions you can watch the lights move around.

you really need to be using the farmpad version of the step sequencer, it's much better:

http://www.ableton.com/forum/viewtopic. ... ht=farmpad

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:18 pm

nice

Just been to the step squencer thread, Is there a config file for this

what does the command - farmpad -s 1 .... do?

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 8:33 pm

no config file for this one

farmpad -s 1 launches farmpad with the default scene set (sixteen scenes each on its own midi channel, the scene button changes scenes)

make sure your using the 1.2.1 version of farmpad the 1.2 version had different pad behavior for the default setting.

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 9:05 pm

I'm having problems opening this in live 6,

was in made in 7?

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:30 pm

whoops, yeah that one was made in seven.

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 10:53 pm

Does it use elements that aren't in live 6?

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Tue Mar 11, 2008 11:29 pm

i don't think it has elements that aren't in 6. I'll see if i can load the presets into a 6 set, but I have a feeling I wont be able to.

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 9:48 am

cheers Doc,

I don't really need the presets, would you be able to strip out the instruments?

i'm Starting to get into farmpad, its much more solid than pksquared.

i owe you one.

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 4:01 pm

^^^no luck, the preset racks that contain all of the guts won't load into live 6. I'd have to rebuild the thing from scratch, and that is way to much work.

sawatzki · Post by **sawatzki** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 10:53 pm

It would be possible to download the demo for live 7 and then rebuild the setup yourself into live 6...

doc holiday · Post by **doc holiday** » Wed Mar 12, 2008 11:24 pm

^^ the easiest way to do this would be to compare the 7 set to the 6 set you have, and create the changes accordingly. There is quite a bit of difference tho,.

In the 6 set with pk[squared] it took 3 midi tracks for each sound. This lead to a total of 48 tracks plus the two instrument tracks.

The seven set has four total tracks.

Dchild · Post by **Dchild** » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:22 pm

Doc,

please could you answer a few questions about your farmpad sequencer?

I opened it up on a mates computer to see if i could build it in live 6.

can you explain how you managed to decrease the number of midi channels as compared to your pksquared creation?

How do the light feedback if none of the pads are programmed to notes?

I've cracked farmpad, just got to copy and paste some config files.

Really wont to start rocking this in live 6. I started using the pksquared squencer but had many problems with the lights.

Farmpad is just what i was looking for.

cheers