The crazy thing about the padKontrol is that you can only midi map the two knobs at the top right, the pads and the x-y scratchpad. All of the other buttons, including the rotary encoder control the padKontrols menu system and behavior.
However, by sending obscure midi sysex messages you can set the controller to ‘native’ mode, which sends midi output from every control on the device. You can also send messages to turn the button LED’s on/off and even write a message on the LED display.
The downside is that the communication is all done in the sysex format. While ‘normal’ MIDI follows global standards, the format of sysex messages is completely up to the manufacturer and varies from device to device.
I hope to create a bespoke piece of software specifically for the padKontrol that allows complete use of all controls. I also wish to implement usefull feedback from Traktor into the LED’s. (Im thinking of having the buttons flash to the beat, that would be awesome )
This is going to be Mac only. Sorry windows users.
If anyone has:
Experience programing with midi/Xcode/coremidi on a mac.
A padKontrol and a creative mind as to how to best map things.
Helpful suggestions or ideas.
I would love to hear back from you.
Dups.
EDIT: Just found out about farmpad. How i did not bump into this during my research is beyond me. I might still have a shot at this just for fun.
A Windows farmpad would be excellent, however, the GUI for the mac version stands to be most excellent. Would a JAVA version be possible? Something like a multi-platformer like Rapid Evolution? It tends to get a little cumbersome and boring for people who do not ‘think’ the way most programmers think when using farmpad, so it is much easier for them to click a mouse rather than remember a specific syntax and writing that code into a text file for what they want to control.
Btw, something kind of along the lines of the padKONTROL Editor Librarian software that comes bundled with the padKONTROL hardware would probably be best for your farmpad gui for mac
Anybody on here ever attempt to swap out the smd led’s on this badboy? I opened mine up, ordered the parts, desoldered one of the lights, and I actually got one of the pads to trigger with a blue led instead of red, but I did a shite soldering job and it stopped working. Also managed to mess up the entire bottom row of lights by continuing to try to get them to work. Two issues I ran into were, I think I bought too large size of the smd led’s (had no idea what kind the padkontrol used so I just guessed by googling up smd led images and trying to measure) and also, if you head up the smd led’s too much the little cheapo “pads” that are under each connection just come right off the board.
I would actually pay someone for this mod as aesthetics mean a lot to me and my studio, lol
Just wondering if anyone ever attempted this mod? I know it’s purely cosmetic but you can’t deny it would look damn good!
Any input would be helpful. Also let me know if I should have started a new thread as I am new to this forum
That’s a pretty awesome link. I have a PadKontrol coming in the mail and I plan on using the midi-fighter tsi. I was rather bummed to find that the korg’s lights can’t be toggled on and off via midi command messages. Seems like this maybe be a viable work around.
I purchased the padKontrol with TP 2 years ago with the same ideas…very disappointed when I realised I couldn’t map and utilise all of the controls or map lights etc…
It’s taken a lot of searching to find this…i’ve explored all of the other options…Max patches…nativekontrol…Bomes Midi translation…each is a in their own right…but still not quite what i wanted.
This still has a few problems…it only looks for messages on one channel,and some buttons transmit on different ones..maybe the author could be persuaded to write some new code if there is enough nterest…
Looking at the Deckalized mapping for the midi-fighter, it really seems as though the only visual feedback we really need is whether it’s in sample mode or cue-juggle mode. On the midi-fighter this is indicated by a the sample/record button lighting up. I wonder if we could use the Traktor’s beat synced LED midi out(as this is a continuously transmitted message, a pseudo work out to the problem of the LEDs only briefly lighting up when they receive a signal) and a modifier of sorts to make the sample/record button light up in sync with the beat when there’s a sample loaded.
i’m andy, ‘the author’ of the software =)
just came across this one. cool that it’s being posted here (since this is one of my ‘daily 100’ websites). feel free to contact me (via my website or via this forum, whatever…) if you like any features to be added to the software.
Welcome to DJTT Andy. I think a few of use are just trying to get the light functionality of the PadKontrol to mirror that of the midi-fighters. I have to wait till January 4th for my PadKontrol to arrive, but when it does I’m going to be working hard on sorting out the issues.
hi andy!
im trying to map the buttons (not the pads) of my padkontrol in traktor, obviously, with no luck.
i’ve been reading about sysex, native mode, but it seems really confusing…
is any chance that you could give us a hand with a beginners guide, for the newbs in programming, on how to get this buttons “useful”?
about led feedback…
i found in a pdf that the command: “F0 42 40 6E 08 01 00 63 F7”
will give me blinking light for the #1 pad.
But, when? i mean, how do i assign this blink to a traktor midiout?
i already answered via mail (kind of) but there might be others being interested in this topic…
i guess you will have hard times creating sysex messages from traktor. you might achieve some results with bome’s midi translator etc…
but…
in order to make things easy i am currently working on a new version which supports configurable midi feedback for the pads (incoming midi notes/ CCs light up the pads…)
i will post the new version here and on my website within the next days.
feel free to contact me if there are any questions/ suggestions left.
I’m using the Midifighter Decklized AB deck focused mapping and I’m getting a weird buzzing through my speakers every time I press the shift button and any other button. Anyone else having this problem?
this is, as far as i know, caused by technical bs inside your computer. typically causes by ‘something’ within the power supply, a grounding issue etc. (sounds weired, right?). if you are using a laptop this problem is temporarily ‘fixed’ by running the laptop from battery only
easiest thing is to put a ground loop isolator petween your computer’s output and your mixer. this could decrease the signal’s quality, but the amount is so small you won’t recognize it in comparison to the annoying buzz-sound
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