The 6 in 1 Controller Trick !

rsmus7 · Post by **rsmus7** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 7:03 am

Q rbmonosylabik

looks pretty nice and handy,
any chance of sharing the PD and BCR patches?

rbmonosylabik · Post by **rbmonosylabik** » Mon Jun 02, 2008 9:29 am

The PD patch is messy in it's current state, and it requires you to turn off the BCR midi input in live every time you want to MIDI map something off PD. It still needs a bunch of work for me to think it's share worthy.

Still, if you simply copy how the patch is made off that image, you'll get the exact same functionality. Just set everything you want to be Channel changeable between the range after the big subpatch's [loadbang] (64 to 81 in my case), and set two buttons to add/substract 1 to CC 105 on Ch. 1. That should do the trick.

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 12:23 am

3dot... wrote:With this method you will be able to utilize all 6 from a single controller...

SAVAGE!
SAVAGE!
SAVAGE!

I've only been using BCR since yesterday and took a gander thru the boards to check for tips.

Nice one!

amoeba · Post by **amoeba** » Tue Jun 03, 2008 7:24 am

really cool stuff, monosylabik! i need to try some of your techniques, but if nothing else, you've got me thinking in some very interesting directions. thanks for sharing!

dovemouse · Post by **dovemouse** » Mon Jun 09, 2008 11:30 am

Okay, i'm really lost, does this mean that i can change my controller map to another controller map with a button on the controller?

Secondly, i'm using a gamepad through glovePIE as my midi device, i'm pretty knew at this so a lot of the instructions given confuse me.

Are there any values that are specific to your controller or in other words...what the hell do i need to do?!

This does look awesome though and thanks for sharing

Steve

misteron · Post by **misteron** » Tue Jun 10, 2008 2:30 pm

dovemouse wrote:Okay, i'm really lost, does this mean that i can change my controller map to another controller map with a button on the controller?

Secondly, i'm using a gamepad through glovePIE as my midi device, i'm pretty knew at this so a lot of the instructions given confuse me.

Are there any values that are specific to your controller or in other words...what the hell do i need to do?!

This does look awesome though and thanks for sharing
Steve

Did u have to edit a file called "User Configuration.txt" or have someone edit it?

Don't know glovePIE (yet) but if it sends MIDI to Live then u just need to figure out what MIDI messages are being sent from each button etc on your game controller.

You can find out by using MIDI map map each buttoin etc to a clip slot (for example) and u can read what it is sending. There will be a number between 1 and 16 before the backslash - that is the 'channel' the MIDI is sending on.

Find out that much and come back for instructions.
Also, let us know what kind of controls u have on the game pad (never used one).

dovemouse · Post by **dovemouse** » Thu Jun 12, 2008 2:27 pm

I don't need to edit "User Configuration.txt", as far as i know, i haven't touched it if that's what you're asking

I can set any button to any channel and eny CC for example right now i have this setup:

midi2.channel5.Control40 = Joystick2.button1
midi2.channel5.Control41 = Joystick2.button2
midi2.channel5.Control43 = Joystick2.button3
midi2.channel5.Control42 = Joystick2.button4

Just a simple for button setup, so button 1 on my gamepad sends 5/40 to Ableton.

So, what next?
Thanks.

The 6 in 1 Controller Trick !

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