For discussion about setting up your studio and advice on the gear and equipment within it.
By dtaa pla muk Wed Feb 05, 2014 9:09 pm
i've reprogrammed a launchpad in bidule. it is now my primary melody writing tool, replacing a keyboard. it does amazing things, especially coupled with my quneo (also reprogrammed in bidule).

adding features is pretty easy. please help me by thinking of something i may have missed.

currently i have:

8 octaves of a user-defined scale
fader to control velocity of notes (launchpads aren't velocity sensitive)
button to toggle arpeggiator (repeat held notes in order played)
cc to control arpeggiator speed
button to toggle note repeat
cc to control note repeat speed ("liquid" note repeat button, smoothly transition between NR quantize states)
fader to smoothly transpose up to +5 octaves
]pitchbend with smooth center return
mod wheel with smooth 0 return
button for note hold (blocks note offs of all triggered notes)
button for note close (sends note off for all open notes, works as a panic button too)
button to block all note ons (if you've set up an arpeggio with the note hold button but want to rhythmically mute it)
feedback lights indicating recorded midi from 16 different channels (in different colors!)

i could add:

button to toggle input quantize to project tempo
fader to adjust input quantize resolution
midi delay (unnecessary, probably, as i could just use a delay vst on the audio)
???

what else would be cool?

in other modes, i wrote a 16 step step sequencer (needs work) and a MLR (monome) style instrument, but those are worth another post.

this is a screencap of my bidule instance...this contains my launchpad program, my quneo program, my tempo syncer, and some other petty stuff

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By Moonmonkey Tue Mar 04, 2014 9:47 pm
Nice looking bidule system you've made yourself there! Impressive stuff!

Just curious, what made you leave the MPC out of your setup?

Actually pretty curious about your bidule design too! Any chance you could up a pic that shows it in more detail or explain a bit more about it?

Im a massive fan of bidule - incredible program really! Ive just spent a few nights setting up the mpc1000 with a midi controller in combo with bidule. Cubase just sits hosting various vsts and bidule whilst mpc is the sequencer.

Note repeat on a slider is nice (took a while to get right so that it was smooth and had a security measure ie. F1-6 dont operate unless note rep is engaged, crazyness can ensue pretty quick if those commands get sent by mistake)

Track select on a slider is handy too for saving a few buttons for other stuffs.

Im going to get working on some macro's next. One to get me into loopedit with 16 tracks each allocated to a different noise for X0X duties.

I would really like to figure out how to send PC's to the MPC! Its eluding me atmo!