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!]
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.
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.
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.
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?
