By misterflibble
Sat Jun 12, 2021 4:02 pm
Hey guys,
I sent this to Akai support but I'm posting it here too in case anybody knows what's up. I'll post the resolution once I figure it out to help others in the future.
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Hi,
I am having trouble getting my MPKmini mkii to control parameters on my MPC Live running 2.9.0 in standalone mode.
Using the MPK editor software, I have set up a Program on the MPKmini mkii which maps control knob K1 to CC 71, with a LO of 0 and a HI of 127. I want to use this to control the filter cutoff of TubeSynth installed on Track 03, Plugin 002 of my sequence.
On the MPC Live, I opened MIDI CONTROL > MIDI LEARN, hit + to add a new mapping and entered the following.
SOURCE: Program > Plugin 002 > Plugin 002
TARGET: Program > LPF Cutoff
I then go to the line in the TARGET/TYPE/CH/DATA/FLIP table and hit the LEARN button. When I turn knob K1 on the MPKmini, nothing happens. As a result, I am unable to map CC 71 to Plugin 002's LPF Cutoff.
I also have knob K3 on the MPKmini assigned, but in this case to CC 10 (Pan) with a LO/HI of 0/127. If while LEARN is still toggled on in MIDI Control, I turn knob K3, then "Track 003 Pan" is correctly identified in the TARGET/TYPE/CH/DATA/FLIP table as the control message being sent in. However, once I turn off LEARN and try to play Plugin 002 on Track 03 while turning knob K3, there is no effect on the LPF Cutoff parameter. By contrast, if I go into Program Edit for Plugin 002 and use the Q-Link knobs to control the LPF Cutoff, it works just fine.
I have the following questions.
1. Why isn't MIDI LEARN picking up the CC 71 messages from knob K1? If I look in the MIDI MONITOR I can clearly see the MIDI messages for knob K1 and all the other MPKmini knobs coming in just fine, on the correctly assigned CC numbers as set in the MPKmini mkii Editor. However, the only CC that MIDI LEARN recognizes is CC 10 (Pan). Across my MPKmini I have CC numbers 71, 74, 10, 4, 75, 76, 78, and 79 assigned, but MIDI LEARN only recognizes CC 10. MIDI MONITOR correctly recognizes all of the CC messages sent by the MPKmini's knobs.
2. What do I need to do in order to get the MPKmini knobs to control the LPF Cutoff and other parameters on TubeSynth? If MIDI LEARN is the wrong way to set up this kind of control, then is there another way to do it?
3. Is there a default set of MIDI CC numbers that TubeSynth and the other plugin instruments on the MPC Live respond to? If so, is this published anywhere?
I sent this to Akai support but I'm posting it here too in case anybody knows what's up. I'll post the resolution once I figure it out to help others in the future.
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Hi,
I am having trouble getting my MPKmini mkii to control parameters on my MPC Live running 2.9.0 in standalone mode.
Using the MPK editor software, I have set up a Program on the MPKmini mkii which maps control knob K1 to CC 71, with a LO of 0 and a HI of 127. I want to use this to control the filter cutoff of TubeSynth installed on Track 03, Plugin 002 of my sequence.
On the MPC Live, I opened MIDI CONTROL > MIDI LEARN, hit + to add a new mapping and entered the following.
SOURCE: Program > Plugin 002 > Plugin 002
TARGET: Program > LPF Cutoff
I then go to the line in the TARGET/TYPE/CH/DATA/FLIP table and hit the LEARN button. When I turn knob K1 on the MPKmini, nothing happens. As a result, I am unable to map CC 71 to Plugin 002's LPF Cutoff.
I also have knob K3 on the MPKmini assigned, but in this case to CC 10 (Pan) with a LO/HI of 0/127. If while LEARN is still toggled on in MIDI Control, I turn knob K3, then "Track 003 Pan" is correctly identified in the TARGET/TYPE/CH/DATA/FLIP table as the control message being sent in. However, once I turn off LEARN and try to play Plugin 002 on Track 03 while turning knob K3, there is no effect on the LPF Cutoff parameter. By contrast, if I go into Program Edit for Plugin 002 and use the Q-Link knobs to control the LPF Cutoff, it works just fine.
I have the following questions.
1. Why isn't MIDI LEARN picking up the CC 71 messages from knob K1? If I look in the MIDI MONITOR I can clearly see the MIDI messages for knob K1 and all the other MPKmini knobs coming in just fine, on the correctly assigned CC numbers as set in the MPKmini mkii Editor. However, the only CC that MIDI LEARN recognizes is CC 10 (Pan). Across my MPKmini I have CC numbers 71, 74, 10, 4, 75, 76, 78, and 79 assigned, but MIDI LEARN only recognizes CC 10. MIDI MONITOR correctly recognizes all of the CC messages sent by the MPKmini's knobs.
2. What do I need to do in order to get the MPKmini knobs to control the LPF Cutoff and other parameters on TubeSynth? If MIDI LEARN is the wrong way to set up this kind of control, then is there another way to do it?
3. Is there a default set of MIDI CC numbers that TubeSynth and the other plugin instruments on the MPC Live respond to? If so, is this published anywhere?