Midi Fighter Spectra lightshow?

DJTT Gear & Custom Mods Midi Fighters
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Midi Fighter Spectra lightshow?

So I was just browsing around on DJ Tech Tools and found a post about a routine done by Shawn Wasabi

(found here: http://www.djtechtools.com/2014/03/17/routine-shawn-wasabi-mashes-skrillexs-recess-album-on-midi-fighters/#disqus_thread)

I was wondering how to go about getting my midi fighter spectra lights to do something like this. Thanks in advance

EDIT: Not sure if my replies are showing up or not but I just wanted to say thanks again to dsquareddan and padi_04 for helping me out. I got everything working exactly how I want it. Thanks guys!

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I’ve been doing some serious digging on the matter and the only way I see how to do animations for the leds on this spectra is through Traktor. Is there a way to do this in Ableton? or is there a way to use the LED options from Traktor but be able to play everything in Ableton such as Mad Zach’s soundpacks and ones that I’ve created myself.

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it’s an advanced MIDI mapping feature. Depending on your software, you will need to send MIDI notes OUT to the spectra, and depending on the note & velocity you set you can control the color. It takes a while to make the animations as you have to map each individual light and step of the animation.

you can find out more about the midi mapping of the spectra here

In Ableton, to do this, best way is to set up a “dummy clip” of midi on a channel, and have it’s MIDI out channel set to the one outlined in the Spectra documentation.

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Works pretty much the same in the 3D and Twister, just make sure right device and channels are selected as outputs and you enabled Track Out in live’s MIDI preferences window.

The following Ableton project should be a nice guideline.

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Sweet, thanks for the reply guys and also thanks for the resources. Its really appreciated!

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Hi there - I downloaded your Lightshow project but it does nothing with my MidiFighter Spectra..

here’s my midi prefs:

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Hi, yeah that’s exactly how it was set-up but I get nada…

It may be because I have set the lights using the MF utility?

I don’t want to do any kind of resetting or anything because of this..

Any ideas?

Getting useful feedback to the MF would be killer.

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Set off (rim) state to black and on state to white (button). If TRACK OUT is enabled you should be getting it already, make sure you are pointing it to the right channel too (ch.3 by default)

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could i do that only on bank 4 (the one i’m not using right now) just to be sure?

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Yes, just adjust the notes out sent to that specific bank (page 16 in the user manual)

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Still nothing, everything is set as per your image..

Here’s my screen and prefs..

The bank buttons were set to black & white by default but I also resent that from the MF utility..

the midi channel is on 3

…nothing happening

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Create a new “MIDI trace” and drag&drop the .als file onto it. This should work.

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Another Question: How do I turn off the default lightning? So that I only see the programmed one?

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Just use the midi fighter utility to turn them off

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So do I get this right that I have to change the midi notes in the specific program (ABleton, Traktor etc) to make it light up like I want it to?
I want to change the sparkling by default, coz I think the path of the sparkle is wrong with my spectra OR intended to be NOT symmetrical :wink:

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Yes, you need to have a 3rd party software running in the background, the spark animation is hardwired on the unit and can be either turned on or off but not edited.

Upload a vid of how the spark effect looks on yours and I’ll tell you if it’s showing right or not.