Re: RE: SoftStep Nav Keys

[Dave Draper <dh.draper@virgin.net>]

I confess! I dunnit. I think the one posted on that page link is a 
pretty old version. I'm constantly fiddling with it & making slight 
changes, but I'll post a 'latest' update to the plogue forum.

Of course you have to use Mob as a plug-in in plogue for it to work, 
but....  :)

I've also found that with the latest firmware, I don't get the raw CCs 
output, it defaults to a progchange scene. So I have to boot the 
bloatware first, set an 'INIT' state on the hardware, then shut down the 
KMI app & boot up plogue. Then it works. Tedious, but...I'm just 
investigating max/msp runtime to see if any of Tom Swirly's patches 
would help in this respect.

Apart from not taking 1GB+ of memory, this solution also gives me four 
functions for each pad - fiddly to use, but versatile.

Ah, just found a more up-to-date (more efficient?) version up there:

http://www.plogue.com/phpBB3/viewtopic.php?f=8&t=5733 - it's last one, 
'MonoController'

hth

Dave Draper


On 11/05/2013 17:31, Jeff Larson 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=tV20
>
> 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 :)