The Reloop Buddy has 3 potentiometers for dialing in the levels for master volume, cue volume and cue mix. While playing the first set with the controller I realized that the position of those potis is far from perfect and needed some tweaking.
This tool acts as a helper between Midi and OSC. It allows you to receive OSC data and forward them to a Midi-device and/or (yes, simultaneously) vice versa. I somewhat accidentally discovered that you can use this tool to also transmit Midi data over network (over OSC). It’s based on openFrameworks. It works on Mac, Windows and probably on a Raspberry Pi. Source code and binaries for Mac and Windows are available on Github .
tl;dr: Reloop’s new low-range controller ‘Buddy’ does not completely work with Native Instruments Traktor out of the box. This post provides a solution in form of a Python script.
Obviously, I do have a thing with Midi controllers. This is the better part of the ones I used over the course of the last ~15 years. Each of them has a story to tell.
A few weeks ago I bought the Hercules Starlight Midi controller because … of reasons and due to the fact that I started playing music on M-Audio’s infamous Torq DVS I have some leftover-habits of how I want my software / controller to react. That’s why it was ab-so-lute-ly necessary to create a customized MIDI mapping for using Traktor. By the way, did I ever tell you? When Torq 2 came out I was one of the alpha-testers. Thank me for Torq 2.x not crashing when using a MIDI device that presents itself with an umlaut. (I guess the NDA is more than obsolete since Torq is no more for a long time already).
Creating this mapping I didn’t start from scratch but based my work on an already existing one. As far as I remember it was this one but don’t quote me on that. However, big thanks to DJ Roberts over at the DJTechTools forum.
Continue readingAm Ende des vorherigen Posts zum vierten Bauabschnitt des neuen Midi-Controllers hatte ich ja bereits durchblicken lassen, dass ich mir aus lauter Verzweiflung einen neuen Midi-Controller bestellt hatte, um wenigstens ir-gend-etwas funktionierendes mit ‘Midi’ in der Hand zu haben. Das ist der Starlight Controller von Hercules.
Über Weihnachten bin ich natürlich in der alten Heimat und habe EXTRA viele Bilder des Baufortschritts auf die Platte meines Laptops kopiert, damit ich in Ruhe den Content aufbereiten kann… nur um dann zu merken, dass ich IT-technisch wohl doch nicht so bewandert bin, wie ich immer dachte. Kurzum: die Bilder liegen noch zuhause in HH. Aber der Anspruch, hier alle 10 Tage (immer am 6., 16. und 26. eines Monats) neuen Content zu veröffentlichen, bleibt bestehen. Deswegen gibt es wenigstens einen Teaser, der einen Ausblick auf das Kommende gibt – sobald ich wieder in HH bin, ist das dann auch online.
