Ok, so I’m mapping my APC 40 for TP2 and everything seems to be going fine until I try to map the outputs for the LEDs. I can get them to be the right color and everything, but the led activity is very unpredictable. I can’t get the lights to actually stay on.
For example: Say I would like the LED of my play/pause button to be red when paused and green while playing. I can get the colors fine, but no matter what I do the LED’s just turn off if I hit the button. once in a while they will stay on and it will work for a second, but when I hit the button again it will only stay lit if it is held. I’ve made sure that my button is set to toggle, and the function works fine, It’s just the led’s giving me trouble.
Controller range is 0/1
Midi Range is 4/2 (Flashing red, Flashing green)
Am I a complete idiot or is there something I am missing? any help would be grand. thanks
It tends to work if i hit the button lightly and quickly, but the average button press causes the LED’s to turn off!!!
My mapping work fine without invert, but worth try the above, but the most important is to make sure you are in dumb mode.
From my experience sometimes even though you start in dumb mode after change some mapping setting the LEDs start to acting weird until I restart the APC and traktor once again in dumb mode then it work fine.
ok so I’ve just had the chance to try this stuff out.
When I try starting ableton before traktor all LED feedback in general goes off when I close Live.
Also, when I look for the "update state command, I Cant seem to find it. It’s not under “global” all I have are:
Snap mode
quantize
broadcasting
cruise mode
show slider values
FX panel mode
send monitor state
i think Onimode worked out the midimasher code to send the sysex to put the apc40 into dumb mode too. you could use that in a mini config, then have a .bat file to run it. quicker than firing up live each time anyway just to do that.
Negative on this. I can confirm the APC40 goes into “dumb” mode (device control knobs are no longer channel-ized), but LED feedback goes out the window. Still looking for other solutions.
I really wish my method the first time worked. I’ve tried using SysEx to get the APC40 into the Ableton mode, but I got the same results as putting it in “dumb” mode. Gotta figure out how to do this stuff right.
and the led’s are just dead or something afterwards even via midi? in “mode 2” (the 3rd one) the leds should be even more dead from looking at the spec - but then should be easy to modify via midi.
