Help with Traktor output/LED programming?

[toypadlock]

Hello, apologies for the basic question, but I just received my first Yaeltex controller and it’s excellent. I have some familiarity editing Traktor controller mappings, and didn’t have a problem doing the inputs - it’s all set up perfectly now.

I am, however, completely new to anything output-related, and despite reading the Kilowhat manual and poking around, I’m definitely missing something basic. I’m really happy to do the exploration itself, but I was wondering if anyone could help with a very basic tutorial on a couple of items, specifically with the interaction between Traktor controller manager and Kilowhat.

[Question one deleted - I have solved!]

2. I have a bunch of rotary encoders, which I’m going to use (mainly) for stems. How can I set a single one of those to fill up its rotary lights when turned (it already does this with no input from me or Traktor, but I don’t understand how that’s set - I’ve tried doing what I thought should turn it off, but it still reacts) in a specific colour, and how can a separate on/off control (determined by the clicking of the encoder) make the indicator light below the encoder switch on or off.

Apologies, as I know these are really detailed questions, but I would really appreciate some help, as the whole thing is melting my mind a little - I was expecting it to be a bit like the inputs, where I could just do the whole thing in Traktor, but the outputs have so little in the way of configuration options, this is going to be almost entirely Kilowhat-based.

[toypadlock]

okay, sadly i can no longer edit the above, but i’ve solved all my main issues now apart from two specifically encoder-based questions.

so my RGB encoders, visual feedback-wise, don’t match what’s displayed onscreen until they’ve been moved. if i switch modifier, for example, so they’re now referring to different controls, they continue displaying the visual feedback for the previous control until i move them.

is there a way to make them specifically display what they should be before they’ve been moved? i thought that perhaps removing LOCAL from the feedback sources would do that, but if i do that the feedback just doesn’t display at all.

additionally, the regular VALUE TO COLOR setting doesn’t seem to work for them. they always display white, whatever i put as the value as the midi range value to send.

[Ale]

Hi @toypadlock!
Let’s try the following:

In Kilowhat choose Binary offset under Rotary Behavior

And 3Fh/41h under Enc- mode in Traktor

To use the value for color, you need to send the MIDI message twice: once for the value and once for the color, and the color message should be sent on channel 16.

The first Message

The value to color message in channel 16. Duplicate the first one and change the midi channel.

In the MIDI range type box, you can select your desired color. Make sure to use the same number for both minimum and maximum.
Let me know how it goes.

[toypadlock]

this is great - thank you so much! i’d never have figured out that midi channel 16 colour message stuff and it works perfectly.

i have one last question, and it’s fairly low priority: i have one encoder with its feedback type set to PIVOT, as it’s dealing with a filter. by default, the feedback displays a contrasting colour when it’s in the centre, to show it’s in a zero position…

after setting it all up, however, that’s corresponding to the filter being set at 1%, rather than 0%. is there a way to amend this, either in traktor or kilowhat?