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The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 4:22 pm
by sowhoso
Ableton's Push RGB calibration tool beta 1...
anyone try it yet? i will later today
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 8:04 pm
by sowhoso
works very well, makes a huge difference getting rid of the pink
but, i was mistaken in thinking it would allow changing colors as well
color hacking is still necessary, for me, since the white is too bright for my eyes
nice work Ableton!
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Wed Oct 09, 2013 11:49 pm
by adh82
what RGB calibration tool beta 1?
i want to give it a go....
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:12 am
by Airyck
I had just signed up for the Beta... but it says it's full now?
https://www.ableton.com/en/beta-signup/
To answer the first question, the calibration tool helps a ton. My pads were not very bad but now they are almost perfect.
You will still have to hack the colors. The tool so for just adjusts the Red and Green levels with the master volume knob during calibration. You select a pad then visually match it to the others one at time. It's hard to get it perfect buy you can get a pretty good balance going (it will never be perfect due to imperfections in manufacturing any LED, especially cost effective ones).
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 12:20 am
by Dillinger63
Closed.

Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:08 am
by sowhoso
Airyck wrote: It's hard to get it perfect...
not perfect, but a BIG difference
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 1:11 am
by sowhoso
i bet they add color options feature to this
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 10:25 am
by adh82
downloading it now.
yeah i hope they do add a colour mode too!
also my LCD screen is uneven in brightness, one top/side is brighter.
Hopefully they make a LCD calibration tool too!
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:29 am
by re:dream
um, i don't know about this calibration tool...

where i download?
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 11:48 am
by adh82
Just used it and agreed. BIG DIFFERENCE! Brightness control would be a plus.
Next lets get an LCD contrast calibration tool!
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Thu Oct 10, 2013 2:14 pm
by Tarekith
The Finn wrote:um, i don't know about this calibration tool...

where i download?
It's included with the 9.1 beta.
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Fri Oct 11, 2013 10:19 pm
by jestermgee
Yep. Should fix some issues people are having.
I only had a couple of slightly pink pads that didn't bother me too much but would stand out from the crowd. The tool is very simple to use and using the Before/after switch to compare the result made a obvious difference. I cannot even tell which pads had an issue now. Great option.
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 7:29 am
by gnurf
It made my pinkish pads more like the others. I may have to tweak it a little to get it exact, as the whites turned sort of greyish on a few pads, but it's pretty close to perfect now. I haven't yet seen any cases where the calibration has caused other colour modes to look off.
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 8:38 am
by deets
Airyck wrote:I had just signed up for the Beta... but it says it's full now?
Wrong link. This is the proper one:
https://www.ableton.com/en/beta/
I don't know if it's currently open or not, though.
Re: The End of Pad Color Hacking?
Posted: Sat Oct 12, 2013 9:02 am
by gnurf
The beta is open to all, and still running as far as I can tell. They're pretty quick to reply to bug reports.