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frankie.solar
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Post by frankie.solar » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:19 am

thanks pucklermuskau
so i save my map in mapd, and leave it running. ..
then open ableton, click the midimap button, but there seems to be no midi signal coming into ableton so i can assign buttons to specific clips
pucklermuskau wrote:hi frankie. Basically, for each track you have in ableton, youre going to want to set up a vertical column of monome buttons, as a radio widget. Then, in the 'address' area, youre going to enter something like "/midi/note_on a $1 127 1", where a is the subunit that the monome sends from (a,b,c, or d), $1 is the variable that will be controlled by each button in the radio widget, 127 is the velocity of the note, and 1 is the midi channel. Then for each button in the widget, you enter (in the 'value' box) the midi note that will be sent out (replacing the $1). Each time you press a button in the widget, it will sned out a note # whatever your value is, at 127 velocity, on channel 1. Note that the $1 can be placed anywhere in the expression, for example if you wanted to have the same note #60 sent out over different channels, you could write /midi/note_on a 60 127 $1, then have each button value be somewhere between 1-16, and each press will send out a note #60 to whatever channel you specify.
Hope that helps, really just the tip of the iceberg...

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Post by eamoon » Tue Jan 23, 2007 4:14 am

frankie: does the MIDI input light in the upper-right corner flash when you hit a monome button? If not, you probably need to go to preferences, pick MIDI/sync, and make sure that "Remote" is selected for the mapd device (I don't remember what it's called.)

frankie.solar
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Post by frankie.solar » Tue Jan 23, 2007 8:42 am

the light doesn't flash. i've checked the preferences and remote is selected. still nothing.

eamoon wrote:frankie: does the MIDI input light in the upper-right corner flash when you hit a monome button? If not, you probably need to go to preferences, pick MIDI/sync, and make sure that "Remote" is selected for the mapd device (I don't remember what it's called.)

frankie.solar
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Post by frankie.solar » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:19 pm

frankie.solar wrote:the light doesn't flash. i've checked the preferences and remote is selected. still nothing.

eamoon wrote:frankie: does the MIDI input light in the upper-right corner flash when you hit a monome button? If not, you probably need to go to preferences, pick MIDI/sync, and make sure that "Remote" is selected for the mapd device (I don't remember what it's called.)
just installed the FTDI virtual COM port driver and it now works. . .im so happy i cant say. . .was that so basic people forgot to mention? i feel like a muppet ;)

frankie.solar
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Post by frankie.solar » Tue Jan 23, 2007 1:21 pm

so is it possible to get the monome lights to work with ableton yet so that the clip ive triggered is lit up on the corresponding 40h pad?

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Post by chapelier fou » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:32 pm

some problems for that...check out "midi bug?" topic....

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Post by ejectorset » Tue Jan 23, 2007 5:56 pm

with radio groups in mapd and tracks organized into columns in session view you can read about my workaround here:
http://forum.monome.org/topic/564#new
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