I am attempting to use the Xone:K3 with Resolume (7.23) and I have a couple of questions:
Resolume can send a MIDI out velocity value when a switch is triggered or button is pressed - on the Akai APC40 mkii, the velocity values can be used to control the color of a button. So for example, if a button is teal by default, it can be configured to turn red when pressed instead of off/on. Is this possible with the K3? If not, can it be requested?
If not controllable by MIDI, can this type of setting be added to the controller software?
Can the Xone controller software be modified so that it does not have exclusive control over the device? Current design requires the controller software to be open at the same time as the software I am assigning shortcuts, and I get an error if my application is configured to send/receive MIDI to the Xone, and then I try opening the control software to customize knobs or switches - or vice versa
It would be useful if the layers had a mode where you could hold the layer button down to temporarily access switches / knobs for a layer
Happy to help debug or provide any info to get the k3 working with Resolume smoothly
Colors can be changed via midi notes, not the midi cc values. Check the manual. This is literally the same as K2. You can change what color the midi note will enable, but only one color per note.
For now at least on Windows OS the MIDI driver is a single client compatible. You can’t use the same controller on the different applications at the same time. I hope A&H will release their own driver the same as for the K2 to use K3 not only on the one application at the same time.
Thanks for the response and helpful information. Sounds like I will probably need to use something like Bome to achieve what I want as I believe Resolume only supports receiving CC Note values.
It’s not identical. I’m talking about Traktor. The LEDs don’t behave the same way when trying to configure multiple colors on a button. One test is that the k2 mappings that have these configurations don’t work on K3.
K3 has the ability to change the NOTES on the buttons to the CC behavior! I forgot to mention this. Because out of the box it is the same layout like K2, but the Xone Controller application let’s You change what buttons do. They can be notes (gated, triggered, toggled) or You can change them to the any CC command on the button (with the min-max values). K3 is very customizable controller via the application. Settings are not hard-coded like on the K1/K2.
Xone:K3 LEDs and buttons currently function in the same wasy as a Xone:K2 (or a Xone:K1).
With the main differencein this context being that you can duplicate the CC value for the same button on each LAYER (This is not possible with K2, but is similar to how a K1 can be used) >>buttons can only be one colour…
Possibly some confusion here between switch buttons and LED feedback…
With Layers OFF, a ‘single button’ LED can be sent three different MIDI values each corresponding to a different colour.
You can use the different LAYERS to achive this, for example using Switch #1:
LAYER 1 = NOTE C3/ LED colour = RED
LAYER 2 = NOTE C6/ LED colour = ORANGE
LAYER 3 = NOTE C9/ LED colour = GREEN
The colour on each layer can be changed as required
If the host then returns the three messages to the Xone:K3, the corresponding button LED changes colour following each command.
With some apps, if a LED on the Xone:K3 does not respond as expected when the host returns a NOTE command, try changing the CONTROL TYPE from a NOTE to a CC (Control Change)
‘one’ switch contol element only sends one command. This is per layer.
However, when a switch is not associated with a Latched Layer (or all Layers are OFF) the corresponding button’s LED can receive up to three different commands.
So the colour of the LED can be changed using the different Layer commands
This is how Xone:K2 operates. And is similar to the way LEDs on Xone:K1 can function
Thank you for your reply. What you mention is the basic functioning of LEDs, which I am familiar with. But I insist, the problem lies in more complex mappings where Traktor’s ‘Send Monitor State’ function is used, which serves to map two colours to the same button. Each colour should light up according to the command you send. For example. When the deck is playing, the button shows green; when the deck is stopped, the button shows red. This cannot be done with the K3, but it was possible with previous models.
Turn the Lathcing Layers OFF, this allows three colours to be assigned to a single control element’s ON state, and is essentially how previous models function
Using the FOLLOW LAYERS backlight option allows the same three colours to be assigned as corresponding OFF states.
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