xparis001 wrote:Ableton work really closely with us, and are pretty cool guys. I've been asking for them to support standard INC/DEC protocol on the MPK for years now. If you bring it up on their forum, they usually are pretty good about responding. More voices speak up, the more they might listen.
as I said, I've tried. I tried by myself, I contacted Akai, I contacted Ableton, I've asked on every forum you can find on the internet about Ableton Live, I've asked all the major Ableton Certified trainers you can find through google... nobody has got any idea how to make those things work as dec/inc.
I've also found other people like me asking for advice or trying to program them by themselves but without success.
regarding the Ableton staff being pretty good about responding I agree, but I guess this isn't a big issue for them. the only answer I've got is to use the workaround I've already mentioned before. too bad it doesn't work at all in some specific cases I came up with.
what disappointed me was the marketing of this controller. it's even advertised on the Ableton website as completely integrated with Live and it should have been able to do the dec/inc...
I'm not saying this as a rant or anything, neither I wanted to derail this thread. it's just to clarify the situation about that topic since I brought it up in the first place and it started this conversation.
anyway, I only wanted to be reassured at least that the new products you are building haven't the same problems.
about the Ren: what I was glad to hear is that you guys know how those things work: when I contacted Akai about this issue it took me quite a while before someone could understand what I was talking about... that's why I was worried at the beginning when you told me they were the same knobs.
and since you are the ones dealing with the software and the interface, I'm sure the controller and the software will be perfectly integrated.