Re: SoftStep Nav Keys

[Philip Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Thanks Jeff his problem is precisely the problem I am having, so it's good 
to read that thread.

Not sure his solution will work for me, I'm not a Bidule guy, but in the 
words of Robert Palmer - I'm looking for clues :)

Hopefully will find some in there - thanks !

Phil :)



On May 11, 2013, at 9:31 AM, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> wrote:

> Yes, it's possible, there's a guy on the Mobius forum that made a Bidule 
> group to do something similar.
> 
>     http://www.plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5620
> 
> I'm pretty sure someone made a Max/MSP patch but I can't find it right 
> now.
> 
> I had considered writing a little VST plugin to do the MIDI translation 
> but lost interest in it
> after they fixed standalone mode.  
> 
> Jeff
> ________________________________________
> From: Philip Clevenger [phil.clevenger@gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, May 11, 2013 10:02 AM
> To: Loopers-Delight@loopers-delight.com
> Subject: Re: SoftStep Nav Keys
> 
> Well I'm part way there.. Using MIDI Pipe I've got the standalone CC
> messages translated to the desired Note... But in still getting loads of
> pressure data messages... So instead of a clean Note On / Note Off, I'm
> getting dozens of one or the other, with variable pressure values for 
> each
> one.
> 
> It's enough to make me believe its possible, and to indicate that at this
> point the challenge is in the MIDI translator, rather than the SoftStep.
> 
> Phil
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
> On May 11, 2013, at 9:51 AM, Christoph Lehmann <krrrs@gmx.de> wrote:
> 
>> Hey Phil,
>> When I got my SoftStep I wanted to use the navigation keys in the same
> way but abandoned the Idea, when i realized it's not possible by 
> default. I
> never thought of hacking it, as I'm not very familiar with all the 
> computer
> stuff. If you find way to do the trick, please let me know.
>> 
>> Chris
>> 
>> 
>> Am 09.05.2013 um 08:17 schrieb Philip Clevenger:
>> 
>>> Any SoftStep users here successfully hacked the Nav keys for your own
> evil purposes?
>>> 
>>> SS is a promising lightweight portable foot controller but the gotcha
> (for me) is the relatively hard coded nature of the Nav keys.
>>> 
>>> These keys ought to be perfect to use for next and previous loop
> commands across one axis, and next/previous layer or scene or whatever,
> across the other axis. Echoloop, EDP, Mobius style workflow.
>>> 
>>> I've been messing with MIDI Pipe and MIDI Translator to try to convert
> SoftStep's output to simple Note On and Note Off messages, with only 
> partial
> successŠ in Standalone mode with Scene Change set to OFFŠ so I'm getting 
> CC
> messages 80, 81, 82, 83 from the SS nav keysŠ
>>> 
>>> Any insights out there?
>>> 
>>> Phil :)
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