How do I set my padkontrol to broadcast signals on channel 3?
If you have it plugged in and not running on farmpad all you need to do is:
1.Press the settings button (it should light up or something)
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Press the first pad
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Press the midi channel button
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Roll the encoder til the channel you want comes up
5.Continue for other 15 buttons.
6.You can also change what note each pad represents by hitting the note value button down next to the midi channel button.
That should help you out.
Pork
well, i have this working now. also as i am new to the deckalized, not sure it is working 100% but that is probably because i am new to it. basic functions seem to work fine.
one thing. the lights on the pads are not staying on like the midi-fighter. is there a way to enable that? do i need to use farmpad and is there any configuration needed to get that all going?
I tried to hunt down this answer for a while and as far as I know I dont think its possible to keep them lit due to the way its designed.
Im fairly certain to keep the light on the switch must be made a toggle rather than a trigger which wouldnt allow the .tsi mapping work correctly.
I was thinking with farmpad maybe you could use the led screen or maybe map another one of the buttons on the padkontrol to light up when the modifers are active. Just a thought. You’d have to look into it, I ended up just getting a couple midi fighters after playing with the preset.
Good luck
Pork
Has anyone been able to sort out the modifier problem yet?
Sweet I got a PadKontrol on the way. Can’t wait to roll up my sleeves and and get to work on it.
Hi Guys, Loving the post.
I have a midi fighter and padkontrol and I’m trying to set up a deckalized set up as shown on DJTT. padkantrol works great apart from the led’s staying lit. this is a really important to know where you are in the mix etc.
has anyone got any further with farmpad yet???
Just a thought.
I’m not working on this right now because I have 2 midi fighters atm.
Anyway, when you use farmpad, you gain access to all the button on the padkontrol. Maybe you could send output to the parameter buttons to light up in a specfic sequence to signify what mod they are in for beat juggle mode, etc.
Hi,
Thank you for this info on how to use padKontrol as a Midi Fighter, I’m looking to do the same thing since I saw the last “instant gratification FX mapping” for the midi-fighter which I like very much.
Two questions :
- How to reflect on the padKontrol the requirement of a 4 bank layout mode which is mentioned on the mappings page for the latest Midi-Fighter mapping ?
- I have the following input and output ports and I’m not sure which ones I should choose on Traktor Pro :
Input : PadKontrol (MIDI IN) / PadKontrol (PORT A) / PadKontrol (PORT B)
Output : PadKontrol (MIDI OUT) / PadKontrol (CTRL)
Thanks in advance.
Yeah, I’ve been thinking about doing the same.
Anyhow, you can create multiple pages or scenes within the farmpad txt file…assuming of course that you’re on a mac. Just read the example files and you will see it’s not too hard to do. Not sure with bomes.
As for ports, it will be PORT A for input, and MIDI OUT for output.
For now I just want to make the padKontrol behave like a Midi-Fighter. I don’t use farmpad for the moment. Or should I ?
I used the ports you indicated me and have set the different buttons to send to channel 3. Now it looks like the latest “instant gratification mapping” kind of works but only in one deck.
The top four buttons should normally let me choose the deck affected to the FX, but instead it triggers a Gater FX and FX units are affected quite randomly as I touch the different buttons.
I would just use farmpad. That’s what I’m currently using and I pretty much have the exact midi fighter capabilities with my own few changes. I have yet to download the new mapping, but I will eventually. With farmpad, you can set each pad to be a scene select, which by what you are describing, is what you need to do.
Does everything else work? You will have to do a little “programming” though in a text file but it’s really simple stuff after a few minutes of going through the samples included in the program. I think the scene select function of the midi fighter is somewhere in the firmware..therefor you will probably have to utilize farmpad or bomes to get what you want. I hear bomes is better, but it’s not free.
Bomes would be easier as it’s got a GUI, but yeah, it’s not free, and not cheap… Honestly I just found Farmpad after having my PK in an old record crate for at least a year now as I was planning on using it for T2 Sample decks. Then I decided why not figure out getting MidiFighter style stuff going on while I wait, and now I find this. Excellent!
Though it’s been a while I used to work with my PK a good bit. And dros - to properly setup the PK to behave like the MidiFighter you would either need to go through Native mode on the PK, which is a pain and might not even properly do it, or a program like Farmpad or Bomes.
I’ve been researching Farmpad for the past hour, as I never had that when I used my PK. My lord it seems like a wonderful thing once you get past the text only input learning curve. Expect me to be adding some more input, support, and mappings on this soon!
Dudes… can someone just upload the TSI to make my padkontrol work like a midi fighter on the instant gratification tsi please…!
Just uploaded the tsi
everything on my pad kontrol works perfect except I cant route FX. anyone know how? much appreciated
korg pad kontrol tsi help willing to pay
I have installed farmpad and installed the tsi earlier mentioned and played around with the settings constantly. I still dont have to way to switch decks that im effecting. Please help me I will honestly be happy to pay someone who creates a successful korg pad kontrol map
Bump! really want a mapping for the padKontrol now that traktor 2 is out, would be great to have it controlling the sample decks 
i agree! can someone please hook this up?!?!
ok everything works im using the instant grad. mf mapping and i have the two knobs set to key value and a filter so how do i map the xy pad it wont show up wen i click the learn button in controller manger
p.s. and for people that dont know wen using mf mappings you have to make sure your on ch.3 in padKONTROL Editor Librarian and on the padKONTROL as well…just a tip…