Not sure if this is the right forum, but how can I use Akai Midimix at all it’s potential?
I mean, I want to use it as mixer device with Ardour, and I can do that since Ardour allows me to do midi bindings (or midi learn).
I can bind all faders and knobs to any virtual faders and knobs Ardour has, but what about banks? Midimix has the cool feature to set different tracks to different banks (since it has only 8 control “lines”) and change them with “bank left” and “bank right” buttons.
So question is - can I use banks?
I tried to connect Midimix to all Ardour’s midi ports, such as MMC in, Scene in, etc. But it had no effect.
I also have a question about using Ardour with external standalone device, but I’ll ask about it in another thread, maybe later.
Thank you. I’ve done all of this according to documentation and other midi maps I found in Ardour’s installation folder.
And I had to add some description to what I’ve done because it may be confusing why there “EQ mode” and “Normal mode” and what’s the difference.
I’ve tested both maps on four of my sessions and both maps work well. The only problem here is that with second mapping (EQ mode) a user has to add “a-EQ” plugin before applying the map.
I also noticed that sometimes “rec arm” buttons can lit, and sometimes they can not. I don’t know why that happens, but it toggles recording anyway, as it should.
All “mute” buttons can be lightened on a press, though.
I used “midisnoop” to get note numbers (had to do so since Midimix sends “note on / note off” on keypresses), so I think it would be great to mention that little tool on “using control surfaces” manual page near “gmidimon” and “kmidimon” (since none of them shows note number with Midimix by the way).
Made a little tweaking of solo functionality in Akai MIDIMix Normal_Mode mapping by @The_Eighth so you can mute tracks in a more elegant way. Thank you for your original mapping Sir.
