One X/Y Pad with multiple X/Y choices

Question

Is it possible to have an X,Y Pad with buttons next to the X and Y axis to change which values and ranges are sent?  Say I have 8 sliders with sysex ranges that I want to have X/Y pads for but only wish to have one pad.  Is it possible to have 4 buttons on the X and 4 on the Y to realtime switch between destinations?

Comments

This is possible to do using "channel changers." I'll have to work out some instructions and post them here soon. Basically you have a knob which is a channel-changer and supercontrol for both axes. This way you get a unique channel-cc (cc remains the same) for each knob position. Then you assign buttons to control the knob. I'll have to write that up in some detail soon :)

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I can get the cc number to change by the buttons and it stays the same while moving the x/y pad but I don't get how to actually then supercontrol the separate sysex knobs.  I will keep playing :)

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I just re-read the question. If the sliders really have different sysex ranges, you cannot do this in MD currently. You could make, say, the X parameter control something different depending on the state of a button (by altering its channel) but you cannot have it control something different within MD. For now, this may be a suggestion rather than a question, I think. How different are the sysex sliders that you want to control?

This would be an awesome suggestion, however.

Thanks for the dialogue.

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The suggestion could be called "Subcontrols Per Channel." Wow, it's quite doable.

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This would be so amazing :) You could make your own Kaossilator! Just to clarify:-

 

- Each button sets the X or Y grid to control the corresponding Knob.

- Current values are 'read' from Knobs when changing between buttons.

- Toggle 1 and 2 only serve for toggle LED and switch behaviour.