MIDI Kinetics Forum

Hi, I have come to a little snag. I am using Lemur on my iPad, routing through oscillator, to Ableton to play a Drum Rack setup. Everything going into Ableton works great. Getting feedback out of Ableton to Lemur is the issue.
Essentially what I want is to play a drum beat on Lemur, record it in Ableton, then see the pads light up on Lemur in sequence. Essentially what you can do with any Midi Finger Drum Controller with light feedback (i.e. Korg padKontrol, N.I. Maschine).
What I have done so far is create a new midi track in Ableton that receives the midi coming out of the Drum Rack and then sends it back to Osculator, which then re-routes that to the Lemur. What I first expected was a continuous loop issue where Lemur sends midi data to Ableton, which then sends that eventually back to Lemur which causes the Lemur to Resend it to Ableton etc...... What happened instead was nothing. The Midi data coming from the new Midi Track in Ableton shows activity in Osculator, but Lemur sees nothing.
Any Ideas?

Thx

Thankfully the guy at Osculator's forum is helping me out. Nobody here has any experience with this?

Your setup sounds a bit complex, perhaps if you break it down into smaller steps it would be easier for fellow users to help you. It's usually easiest to get an answer when you pose a clear and specific question, rather than presenting an overall situation.

That being said, why are you using OSC messages and OSCulator? It might be much more direct to simply use MIDI messages from the Lemur objects, and communicate directly to Ableton Live through the Lemur Daemon MIDI ports.

If you are not receiving feedback, it means that the OSC messages are not sending to the correct IP and port. The IP of the iPad is displayed in the Lemur Settings screen, and the Lemur always listens for messages on port 8000. That is hardcoded.

Hope this helps!

Best regards,
Nicolas

I was able to work with the folks at OSCulator and they were awesome enough to give me a custom build which was able to do this automatically.
Thank you