The first option you have is going to akai’s website if you go to the part on the lpd8 they have software for the contorller that lets u edit messages. The next optio you have is to use modifiers to get the same sort of effect. If you are not sure how to use them take a look at my book.
Well, the LPD8 editor doesn’t let you change the kind of messages it sends out. You can only change the CC-/note-values. But intercepting the messages and sending out something else is definitely possible, I used MidiPipe to convert the Program Change messages to CC for Traktor. Sadly, MidiPipe is Mac only and I have no knowledge of the other programs, but it shouldn’t be that much of a problem to achieve what the OP wants.
Bomes is deffently a good option. Not sure if you will be able to do this in the free version. I would see if you can get what you want from modifiers. however Bomes is brilliant and will let you do many crazy things pritty easily
– a quick note about LPD8 : the LPD8 has a really stupid feature that you cant connect to it from 2 different things. even the LPD8 editor cannot run at the same time as live or cubase. so if you open the ‘LPD8 editor’ and then Live, live wont recognise it. – similarly if i have the bomes ‘input’ as ‘USB Audio’ (that’s what the LPD8 is called) then the the LPD8 input in live is orange. ie not working. or if i open live first bomes says the port is not there. its ok its just a thing the lpd8 does.
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I have tried all the other bomes ‘midi outputs’ but nothing inputs into live?
on bomes flashing activity lights *=flash:
note played —*input *output (thru midi makes it flash)
cc played – *input *translate * output (when the translated CCs to note are pressed)
were cooking on gas
but LIVE is not recognising any midi input from any output selected in bomes?
If you’re using Bome’s to turn around MIDI messages from a controller, you don’t map directly to the controller in the target application (Live). Remember, now Bome’s is doing the talking. Bome’s has virtual MIDI ports, and you want the target app to “talk to” those virtual ports instead.
the clasic version doesnt have these virtual ports
[quote]Bome’s does NOT provide a virtual MIDI port driver with MIDI Translator, but they are freely available online. There are several virtual MIDI drivers available. I suggest one of the following drivers:
•Sony Virtual MIDI Router for Windows 98/ME/NT/2000/XP
(check out this tutorial for installation on Windows XP)
•Maple Virtual Midi Cable for Windows NT/2000/XP/Vista
•LoopBe1 for Windows 2000/XP
•MIDI Yoke for Windows NT/2000/XP
•Hubi’s Loopback device for Windows 95/98/ME [/quote]
I love it when a MIDI TRANSLATING PLAN COMES TOGETHER
I’ll post my map when I’ve fine tuned it
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my quick questions:
the input CC and output NOTE share the pp variable
should they all be different pp qq rr ss tt
what would happen if the drum played at the same time? or can they all be pp?
and how would i create a rule to add a some midi compression
so i don’t have to bash the pads so hard. kind of velocity + 30 or something. is that possible to do? I’ve been doing it in live so far but it would be great if i could set up bomes to do it fro me? is it possible to add some midi velocity?
Make the last byte of the message a variable
Do a logic throw against the variable that says (for instance) if qq<30 then qq=30
If you weren’t really using velocity, you could also just make qq equal a single value.
I think you might need to transform qq into a temporarily stored global variable first for this to work. Like input B0 24 qq, a1=qq, if a1>30 then execute B0 24 a1. If a1<30 then execute B0 24 30. I think I remember trying this directly with the temporary variable qq, and not being able to transform qq directly within the single translator.
And yeah, you can use as many qq’s or pp’s as you want with multiple translators. They are temporary and only relative to the translator they’re operating in.
I love Bome’s though. Good stuff. Probably the single best “solution” I have ever purchased.
