Post by nic on Jul 27, 2013 10:49:28 GMT
The Akai Synth Station 25 despite being discontinued is one of the most used mobile keys and BeatMaker 2 is one of the most used music apps. If you want to use the pads in the drum machine from the SS25 you have to transpose the keyboard down 4 octaves.
Here is a useful trick to streamline your workflow by setting up the 'DRUMS' button on the SS25 to toggle between the 4octave drop drums mode and the normal synth mode. Press the DRUMS button to switch to the drum mode and then press it again to switch back to normal mode.
This trick uses the NoteMapper to do the transpose, the Stream Byter to map the DRUMS button and Scenes to switch between the two modes.
The very first step is to create the MidiBridge routing you are going to use. I prefer to route into BeatMaker using MidiBridge's own virtual output port rather than BeatMaker's virtual input, so my route is simply from Akai SS25 Kb in to MidiBridge (on right)
Once you have your routing setup, we setup scene 0 with our standard synth setting (no transposition):
- Touch the Beaker icon on 'Akai SS25 Kb in'
- Press arrow on Stream Byter
- Press On to enable the stream byter
- Enter the following two lines in the editor pane:
B0 53 7F = C0 01 +C
C0 = XX +B
- Press Install Rules button, then 'Done' and 'Done' to return to main interfaces page.
- Bring up the Scenes panel
- Hold finger down on Scene 000 and name it 'SS25 Bm2 synth' and Save
The next step is to setup the second scene with the transposition:
- Touch the Beaker icon on 'Akai SS25 Kb in'
- Press arrow on Stream Byter
- Change the '01' figure to '00' in the rules, so the rules now look like:
B0 53 7F = C0 00 +C
C0 = XX +B
- Press install rules, then Done once
- Press arrow on Note Mapper
- Press On to enable
- Set the note transpose value to -48
- Press Done and Done again to return to main interfaces page
- Bring up scenes panel
- Hold finger down on Scene 001 and name it 'SS25 Bm2 pads' and Save
That's it. Pressing the drums button on the ss25 will switch between scene 0 and 1 each time you press it.:1
This is just a basic recipe. Obviously you could expand upon this to do different mappings, scene changes and routings if you wanted to use other apps in the equation also.
Regards, Nic.
Here is a useful trick to streamline your workflow by setting up the 'DRUMS' button on the SS25 to toggle between the 4octave drop drums mode and the normal synth mode. Press the DRUMS button to switch to the drum mode and then press it again to switch back to normal mode.
This trick uses the NoteMapper to do the transpose, the Stream Byter to map the DRUMS button and Scenes to switch between the two modes.
The very first step is to create the MidiBridge routing you are going to use. I prefer to route into BeatMaker using MidiBridge's own virtual output port rather than BeatMaker's virtual input, so my route is simply from Akai SS25 Kb in to MidiBridge (on right)
Once you have your routing setup, we setup scene 0 with our standard synth setting (no transposition):
- Touch the Beaker icon on 'Akai SS25 Kb in'
- Press arrow on Stream Byter
- Press On to enable the stream byter
- Enter the following two lines in the editor pane:
B0 53 7F = C0 01 +C
C0 = XX +B
- Press Install Rules button, then 'Done' and 'Done' to return to main interfaces page.
- Bring up the Scenes panel
- Hold finger down on Scene 000 and name it 'SS25 Bm2 synth' and Save
The next step is to setup the second scene with the transposition:
- Touch the Beaker icon on 'Akai SS25 Kb in'
- Press arrow on Stream Byter
- Change the '01' figure to '00' in the rules, so the rules now look like:
B0 53 7F = C0 00 +C
C0 = XX +B
- Press install rules, then Done once
- Press arrow on Note Mapper
- Press On to enable
- Set the note transpose value to -48
- Press Done and Done again to return to main interfaces page
- Bring up scenes panel
- Hold finger down on Scene 001 and name it 'SS25 Bm2 pads' and Save
That's it. Pressing the drums button on the ss25 will switch between scene 0 and 1 each time you press it.:1
This is just a basic recipe. Obviously you could expand upon this to do different mappings, scene changes and routings if you wanted to use other apps in the equation also.
Regards, Nic.