Hey @Toaster - you rack works as intendend, tx for that. But I’m trying to get the buttons to change color and turn them on/off - for hte love of me I can’t get that to work. Form what I read in the arturia forums the buttons should be x12 (instead of the 70 for pad 1 in your rack) and up. Tried lots of things but no luck. Did you by any chance get that working?
Or by any chance do you have the second page of that Arturia document you posted?
Ha! Some experimenting helped. Button 1 is x22; it moves upward from there so button 9 is 2A!
I finally got something done that I had wanted for over a year. Thought I’d share (example rack can be downloaded at bottom of this post).
I use my own Topiary plugins a lot. These plugins have 8 “variations” (which might refer to 8 variations on a drum track in Topiary Beatz, * different “mix” settings in Topiary Presetz or 8 different types of melodic (midi) patterns that track what is being played on the keyboard in Topiary Riffz). You can see those buttons top/right in the image below. They behave like a group of radio buttons - if I hit button one, variation 1 is selected and all other variations are deselected. If I then call up variation 2, variation 1 gets deselected. In the image below you’ll see variation 1 selected.
I have been using the buttons on a Keylab88 and a KeyLab MKII 61 to call up those variations. Works great. BUT - on a dark stage it it hard to see those buttons, and as a group of course, the KeyLab does not (cannot) know that I want them to behave as radio buttons.
On a side note, I use button 9 as a sort of “get me home” button and it calls up a standard piano patch - it’s a shortcut to my bread&butter-goes-with-anything sound. Ideally I want that button to be illuminated at all times. Keylab can’t do that - it’s either a toggle button (on/off) or a latch (that is, lit up on only and as long as you press it).
The rack attached does the following:
Here’s what that looks like with button 6 selected (bright white) - works great on a dark stage!
Want to see how that is done, feel free to dissect the rack attached.
Keylab mkII Topiary radiobuttons.cantabileRack (511.7 KB) .
Thx to @Toaster for getting me on the right track!
Hi Tom,
Sorry, just seen these posts! Glad you got it sorted!
I’ve not finished mine yet, as it goes, so I may well pinch your rack…
Cheers
P
Go ahead and pinch!
Hi - apologies for digging this thread up, but it’s got me so close to doing what I want, but I think I’m missing a fundamental bit of information/setting.
I’m trying to use the Piano/Elec Piano/Organ… buttons to trigger specific song states, and the radio button rack above has helped me get on the right track (thanks @Tom_Tollenaere) .
However, I’m also trying to relay the state information to the Keylab’s Display, which I kind of got to work through the use of the rack from @oktogon
Trouble is, I can only control what’s on the display in analogLab or DAW modes, and I’ve only got the buttons to work in User mode (they seem non functional in DAW, and all the same CC in analogLab). In User mode the display just wants to show what buttons you’ve pressed.
I’m on the latest firmware downloaded from the Arturia website. Is there something I’m missing? Selecting a specific DAW mode? User mode? So close!
For sake of anyone who is doing similar research and stumbles on this topic, the SysEx IDs for Keylab MK2 buttons can be found here:
I have a mkII. Been playing electronic keyboards for 50 years and the mkII is the best I’ve played.
The sensitivity range/resolution works so well.with modern modules. I use Keyscape and that plugun “feels” so good to play. I never knew an electronic keyboard could be this expressice.
I had a Novation Impulse that I absolutely couldn’t stand. At end of 2019 I bought myself an Aurturia Keylab MKII, best thing I ever did. What sold me on it was the keybed. It’s not FATAR or anything, lol, but its keyboard is built as well as a lot of the synthesizers I used to own. and it’s controls and mapping are pretty versatile.
