First Steps On The Moon
Posted: 23 Jun 2012 14:23
Hey everyone, just got an ipad about three days ago specifically for lemur emulation and use with Ableton.
I've finally had some time to sit down with it all day yesterday, and I've had some questions stewing that I can't seem to find an answer to.
I can MIDI map all day, that's just grand and perfect for my DJ sets. However when I'm in production mode, I want to use my lemur software to emulate a MIDI keyboard, much like the one in the manual except with a handful of extra goodies. Though for now, I'm struggling getting the keyboard to communicate the way I want / expect it to with Ableton.
The keyboard part of my setup is very simple in design.
-One-octave keyboard
-Fader to control velocity
-Vertical bipolar fader to control pitch bend
-a button to zero out the pitch bend
-a horizontal array of eight radio buttons to select an octave
The best results I've gotten thus far is simply making a grid of pads for the whitekeys and a group of pads for the black keys. I could get the whitekeys to work, but I can't figure out how to change the interval so that it follows the scale and not just semitones. The pitchbend was also very straightforward. What I could not get to work was the remaining items.
I understand that the octave select will need to be some kind of multiplier.. I'm just not sure at all how to feed it into the outgoing midi data. As for the velocity, the parameter's right there but again I don't know how to route it. As for the pitch bend reset, I'm reading stuff now about script functions which I think I may be able to apply to remedy that function.
If someone would be kind enough to link me to a resource that explains these items in detail, I'd appreciate it.
It's not my preference to download some template and dig through what someone else did, I learn best when building things myself and following along with someone. However if there is a really straightforward template out there, by all means.
Thank you!
-vexx
I've finally had some time to sit down with it all day yesterday, and I've had some questions stewing that I can't seem to find an answer to.
I can MIDI map all day, that's just grand and perfect for my DJ sets. However when I'm in production mode, I want to use my lemur software to emulate a MIDI keyboard, much like the one in the manual except with a handful of extra goodies. Though for now, I'm struggling getting the keyboard to communicate the way I want / expect it to with Ableton.
The keyboard part of my setup is very simple in design.
-One-octave keyboard
-Fader to control velocity
-Vertical bipolar fader to control pitch bend
-a button to zero out the pitch bend
-a horizontal array of eight radio buttons to select an octave
The best results I've gotten thus far is simply making a grid of pads for the whitekeys and a group of pads for the black keys. I could get the whitekeys to work, but I can't figure out how to change the interval so that it follows the scale and not just semitones. The pitchbend was also very straightforward. What I could not get to work was the remaining items.
I understand that the octave select will need to be some kind of multiplier.. I'm just not sure at all how to feed it into the outgoing midi data. As for the velocity, the parameter's right there but again I don't know how to route it. As for the pitch bend reset, I'm reading stuff now about script functions which I think I may be able to apply to remedy that function.
If someone would be kind enough to link me to a resource that explains these items in detail, I'd appreciate it.
It's not my preference to download some template and dig through what someone else did, I learn best when building things myself and following along with someone. However if there is a really straightforward template out there, by all means.
Thank you!
-vexx