On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 07:57:31PM +0200, Alexandre Ratchov wrote:
> On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:13:20PM +0200, Jona Joachim wrote:
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> > I recently bought a Korg NanoKONTROL[1] midi controller and the volume
> > control in aucat just works using the sliders. However I'm not quite
> > savvy in the whole MIDI business and I was wondering if it was possible
> > to personalize the use of it. For example there is a "scene" selection
> > button on the bottom left and to be able to use it with aucat I need to
> > select scene 4, how come it's scene 4 and not 1?
>
> I guess sliders of different scenes are mapped to different
> controllers. And it happens that scene 4 contains a slider
> that maps to the appropriate volume control of aucat.
>
> To control the volume, the simpler is to configure the
> nanokontrol as follows: first slider to (channel 0,
> controller 7), next slider to (channel 1, controller 7), and
> so on.
>
> This way you get one slider per application.
That works as-is, if I select scene 4 I get 1 slider per application
mapped correctly.
> > I was also wondering
> > whether I could use the turn knobs instead of the sliders for the
> > volume control. Perhaps it's possible to do some magic with the
> > audio/midish port?
>
> So all you need is to assign volume controls to knobs,
> there's probably a way to configure the nanokontrol to do
> so.
>
> midish can map any control number any other one, so you can
> "cheat" with it. But using it is more complicated than just
> configuring the nanokontrol. Well unless you want to be able
> to do other fancy things with it, like save/reload your
> settings or record volume automations into midi files etc...
well "just configuring the nanokontrol" means making the provided
software run in wine or something, I guess it would be easier to use
midish ;)
> > The controller also has start/stop etc. buttons. These probably send MMC
> > messages and I was wondering whether it would be possible to use these
> > to control aucat -t slave?
>
> yes exactly. This is to start multiple applications
> synchronously (ex. play a track with one program while you
> record another track with another program..)
Yes but I don't know how to make it work, at least it doesn't work if I
do the following:
aucat -l -t slave -q midithru:0
The applications don't start when I hit the start button.
Best regards,
Jona
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