Wednesday, 12 June 2013

Spatial Practice - Ableton MIDI Mapping Limitation Workaround

(Selecting the item you want to assign, then moving the MIDI controller - 
linking the item with that MIDI CC/Note or other MIDI command)

This is a frustrating limitation for touch devices, as X/Y controls activate almost entirely in unison, 
"x position" (assigned here to MIDI Control Change value 33) and
"y position" (assigned here to MIDI Control Change value 34)


And Ableton was defaulting all MIDI assignments to CC 34 (y plane) 
when attempting to assign any gestures to either the x or y plane.

List of MIDI Mapping assignments in Final Submission Project before Workaround
As you can see, there are no values assigned to MIDI CC 33

This may be due to the TUIO value for "y position" (1) comes after the "x position" value (0),
but at this stage it isn't relevant, as the simplest solution is to manually reassign MIDI CC's intended for assignment to 33 manually - I was surprised to discover that Ableton does not allow the CC value to be edited in the mapping browser.

Luckily I found a workaround.

Which I implemented into the project, see below:



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