Hi
In this tutorial I'm going to explain how to achieve midi feedback for resolume (in this example with the APC20, but's it's the same for other midi controllers). Many VJs get stuck in the programming, so here a tutorial for making your own personal midi feedback.
We will use Bome's midi translator.
First i made a quick movie for showing what I did with my APC20. Be prepared, it's the worse quality ever (small compact camera + windows movie maker, I couldn't find my good camera and After Effects crashed)
0) IN GENERAL
First we need to split the signal so it goes to resolume and it goed to Bome's.
We will do this:
(image from resolume forum made by subvert)
So download MIDI-OX and MIDI YOKE, install it and go in MIDI-OX to the options, MIDI-Devices. Now you want the input to come from the APC20 and the output to MIDI Yoke 2 and MIDI Yoke 3 (I use 2 and 3, but you can use 1 and 2 or something else).
The thing it does is: midi-ox splits the signal to the virtual midi port midi yoke 2 and midi yoke 3, midi yoke 2 will go to resolume and controll the clips (it's the normal mapping procedure). The same signal on midi yoke 3 will go to bome's and will be processed to midi out back to resolume.
Your MIDI settings for each program should be:
MIDI-OX:
in from APC20
out to midi yoke 2 and midi yoke 3
Bomes
in from midi yoke 2
out to APC20
Resolume
in from midi yoke 3
1) CLIP SELECTION
Here we want the last pressed button to be green, all the other buttons red.
The idea: if one button is pressed, bome's will send the "green" midi signal to this button and to the other 7 the "red" midi signal.
How we do this:
-Make a new preset in bome's and name it "clip selection layer 1".
-make a new translator entry and call it "clip 1 active"
-now in the incoming you'll have to capture your midi, so I press my first button and it will give 80 35 7F and 90 35 7F. We'll need 80 35 7F because this is the button off signal.
-now we need the outgoing signal. For my APC20 I need for each button the "button on" signal (use the capture midi), and the last 2 characters are what light should be on. So for the first button is "on" signal 90 35 7F so the light signals are 90 35 00 (light out), 90 35 01 (green), 90 35 02 (green blinking), 90 35 03 (red)...
The outgoing signal will be 90 35 01 because we want green light.
Ok, the first light is now green when we push it, but the other lights should go off. So make 7 new translators (name them something like "2 off", "3 off"...).
The input signal for those will be the "button off" signal of the first button (80 35 7F). The output signal will be for the 2nd button the "button on" signal with the last 2 characters changed to the light code.
The second button is 91 35 7F so a red light for this one is 91 35 03.
Do this 7 times for each button that should go red and you have made your first layer! (it's a lot of work, I know :p ). Now repeat this 2 times for the other 2 layers.
(works with APC20 and APC40, but you'll have to program the APC40-only functions yourself)
To be continued for the other features.
