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Post by doc holiday » Thu Mar 13, 2008 11:54 pm

in farmpad, the notes increment by velocity, this allows me to filter them by steps.

you will see in the rack, there are speaker on buttons, these allow the midi note to pass. there is a velocity plug latter that adjusts the notes to the same velocity.
if these mutes are open, the note passes. the pads are assigned to these. this is the same in both versions.

so the increment in 1/16th notes comes by velocity, in pk[squared] each 16th was incremented up one semi-tone, then filtered back to the same note.

with farmpad the lights stay lit, in pk[squared] there is a lot of trickery to get the lights to stay lit, spreading the notes across 16 midi channels and then merging the incrementing notes back to the same note. at first in seven i cleared away alot of the tracks in the pk[squared] set by using the external instrument plug.

there are four tracks you need to keep from the pk[squared] set the instrument tracks and the two tracks with all the racks. I think these are the tracks that have the midi clip. First rename the set, then blow away all of the extra tracks.

I think i named things with numbers to keep everything sorted.

in these racks you can blow away the arpeggiators they just need the note length and velocity, then a pitch plug to route the notes to the appropriate instruments.

you'll have to reassign all of the pads.. i've done this to many time already ;)
in the four bar version, there ends up being 1024 pads to assign.

start with just one sound, get that working and then you'll see how it works, and be able to do the rest.

I found the set that I used to start the pk[squared] version, but i had to reverse engineer it and build it over.

let me know how this helps

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Post by Dchild » Sat Mar 15, 2008 12:50 pm

Doc

how are you sending a constant midi feed back to padfarm to get the seqencer effect?

the pksquared sequencer sends a constant flow of midi pack to the kontrolpad.

really want to get this working over the weekend.

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Post by supamonsta » Thu Apr 10, 2008 11:51 am

hi,

did you guys manage to make a command text file to run farmpad with a config file?

I followed flycyle instructions in the korg forum (chmod +x /users/name/farmpad/my_config_run_text.txt, then remove the .txt extension or replace it by .command so the file is "double-clickable" so it launches terminal with the good sequence, that is "farmpad -c /users/name/farmpad/my_config.txt"...

but terminal launches and says approximately "unable to launch binary file"...

any clue ?


BTW FARMPAD TURNS MY LAPTOP+LIVE+PADKONTROL INTO ONE UNIQUE GENIUS LIVE MACHINE... IT DEFINITIVELY ROCKS !! :D :D :D :D

THANK YOU SO MUCH FLYCYCLE

cheers

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Post by misteron » Thu Apr 10, 2008 12:06 pm

Any pc equivalent to all this coolness?
Dying to see how this would work!

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Post by doc holiday » Tue Apr 15, 2008 10:13 pm

monstrejumo wrote:hi,

did you guys manage to make a command text file to run farmpad with a config file?

I followed flycyle instructions in the korg forum (chmod +x /users/name/farmpad/my_config_run_text.txt, then remove the .txt extension or replace it by .command so the file is "double-clickable" so it launches terminal with the good sequence, that is "farmpad -c /users/name/farmpad/my_config.txt"...

but terminal launches and says approximately "unable to launch binary file"...

any clue ?




cheers
It works for me, what if you change the 'u' in 'users' to 'U'?
although i think an incorrect path would result in "error loading config file"
did you do ls -al to be sure that the file is executable?
I think you have to sudo the chmod command.

* i take no responsibility for anyone using sudo

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Post by supamonsta » Thu Apr 17, 2008 10:00 am

hey doc, thank you for answering,

but you are for me a bit too cryptic :lol:

I'm a terminal noob (although I like it a lot, it remembers me my first times on old pc's dos or apple IIe... I customized it with green text on black background...)

the U instead of u in the word "users" isn't the same ? when I run farmpad I just type "farmpad -c /users/monstrejumo/farmpad/monstre.txt" and it is ok.

for your other advices,

I did not do "ls -al" , I don't know any command in terminal... nooby me ;)

and for the enigmatic potentially dangerous SUDO... ... I don't even want to think of it, what could happen ??? 8O :?:


some guy on another forum adviced me to use "chmod u+x" instead of "chmod +x" ... I'll try this

thank you doc !!

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Post by doc holiday » Thu Apr 17, 2008 2:05 pm

ls -al will show the contents of the directory, and include permissions.
this will show you if the file is executable.

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