Getting MF to send a midi msg when pressed and when released
Hello
what i want to do is to have the midi fighter send a midi signal when pressed and to repeat the same signal when released. Is this possible and if so how is it possible?
Please bare in mind i have FA knowledge on how to program on of these things.
The reason i want to do this is because I would like momentary control over the effects in ableton. So that when i press and hold the MF button a effect is activated and then deactivated on release.
I have looked at using dummy tracks but this seems like a lot of ho ha as it requires for a dry button that has to be used to deactivated the effect (please correct me if i am wrong on this and if so how to do this properly). Plus it will swap the effect activated effect for another meaning that chaining effects on the MF is not possible.
What you need to do is have the MIDI Fighter not send note data and instead send MIDI CC’s when pressing a button.
I verified this using a TouchOSC layout that I also use to have a MIDI Fighter on my iPad. When the buttons were assigned to a note (C1, C#1, etc.), I would have to press the button to turn the effect on and then press it again to turn it off. When I changed the button to a MIDI CC, I could press and hold the button to keep the effect on and then upon release of the button the effect would turn off.
If anyone knows how to change the midi notes to midi cc please let me know or if one of the software designers is reading this could you please tell me how to add this to the MF fighter menu.
It’s not possible, all you can change is the midi channel, but luckily that’s not necessary anyways.
The midifighter already sends a button off signal as that’s the way midi works, rather than send constant data while a button is held it uses on (usually 127) notes and off (zero) notes.
All you need to do is map your release command to the button but tick the ‘invert’ box at the bottom. It will then activate on release as opposed to press.
Did you test to see if it works?
All firmware related credit goes to my brother!He’s the one I turn to for that!The fact that he lives just across the road and can do all that is awesome!!
Every time I have a new idea I’m over asking “how can we do this” or “how can we make this work”.
The midi fighter hex was on the desktop at the time.
after taking these steps I check in ableton and no midi values were being received. Also now the midi fighter does not want to go into bootloader mode. At this point I am now stuck for what to do.
Just to update, after a few more tries I just got it into bootmode again and re-flashed with the latest firmware. After this the MF still no long sends midi and will also not go back into bootloader mode.
Firstly thanks again sidetrakd to you and your bro and also cheers photojojo for the suggestion but i can’t see how this will allow me to change the values all to midi cc one’s, if the answer is right in my face please let me know.
I have hacked out a bit of the back case of my midi fighter to get to the reset and boot buttons which are nicely in place due to the dj tech guys. I can now easily get the MF back into boot mode and have gone back to the latest firmware again (all working).
However I am still not getting it with the flashing of firmware.
