🧵 #MIDI madness for controlling #Guitarix #Looper from my #Akai #LPD8…

The Akai's touch buttons / drum pads can send Note, CC or Program Change. #Carla needs MIDI CC to control plugins, #gxLiveLooper needs one-shot messages for erasing tracks, yet it needs something on-off for recording. Basically: “hold the rec button” – but how, I need my hands to play, so I need to toggle that.

Solution: Set Akai controller to note mode. Split the “keyboard” so that the upper 4 keys/drum pads get passed on straight in channel 9, and the lower 4 run in channel 10, to which MIDI Note Toggle reacts. Then convert anything note to CC using MIDI Note to CC.

Let's see of this works in a little jam…

Note that I do not intend to do a timed looping performance like these many YouTube artists overdoing Ableton Live, I need drone sounds from bass guitar to be fed into #AudioDamage #Descent #GranularDelay, so timing is not that relevant.

@tm @falktx @x42

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I am actually a post-zynthian person. But that was some years ago…

… after some interesting crashes of VCV rack I might as well just do voodoo to get #GxLooper midi-controlled for my crazy ideas.

It turns out, that while @falktx created a pretty sturdy plugin host with Carla, @x42 has given us some neat MIDI tweaking plugins. These might actually manage to translate from my #Akai #LPD8 to what #Guitarix #Looper needs.