Controller - M-Audio Pro 88

What do you want the controllers to control?

It seems the place to start is in Preferences>Control Surfaces>controller assignments. Here you can establish a connection with all your faders and assign them where and to what you want. [Being in a similar position except with the ProKeys 88 only no controllers].

You should have less to do with the environment until you get to establishing tracks with virtual inst. all you really need is the keyboard. You can let the tracks determine your various cha. assignments.

Seriously though I may have been a bit hasty in saying what M-Audio can do here [as I hadn't fully explored my Ozonic's capabilities]. Compounding is the fact that all the Ozonics transport buttons are unrecognizable and therefore Logic couldn't them [a real drag]. In trying to assign Key commands from the menu I found that none of the buttons that were recognized would work for me.

So Alex, if your still around [that might change after LM gets ahold of this one]. But it's a good post because I'd like to know if the Keystation 88 is any more capable than my Ozonic [mainly I like the Ozonic's firewire powered/transfer ability].

So then for those of you who can conduct transport controls from behind the curtain on your keyboards like the Wizard of Oz, what controllers do you find work best [I assume Mackie is the brand name here so how many controllers can be trusted to accurately use Mackie logic control].

I bring this back up one as a prelude to an almost certainly necessary sermon from one R. Jones, wait er' LM, Lucky Man...?...where are you your preachers license is up. muZak calling forth...Peace and Renaissance will win the day never to fall remaining Ourselves overall...

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PPMacG5 2.Ghz iBookg4 1.42 Mac OS X (10.4.7) 2.5mem Lynx AES 16 M-Audio Ozonic-ProKeys 88 Motu 896 ART tubes, Mogami wired

Hi Alex.

I use a KeystationPro with my Logic/ Macbook Pro setup. I've not got around to assiging, or using for that matter, the Keystations pots and sliders, but... have you got hold of MAudio's controller editor? Available as a free download here:

http://www.m-audio.com/products/en_us/Enigma-main.html

Im afraid I cant give you any feedback on what this softwares like... but Ive mangaged to do a few simple controller assignment dumps with it. Need to spend some time with it myself.

All the best,

S.

To be frankly honest, I have found that using one of the Pro88 presets, it was much simpler to just use the assignments that were there and then 'learn' the various controllers into LogicPro.
The Enigma software is a bit of a pig in its naming system. ie What's on yer keyboard and what's on yer Mac. It just seems like an extra bit of crud that you don't really need.... or at least I haven't needed it here.

Thanks mattrixx: I had a feeling that might be the case.

Althouh I cant seem to get any stablilty when I use the 'learn' mode in Logic. I set all the parameters to the controllers, exit learn mode, but only the first, bottom left pot retains the parameter. The rest just seem to 'forget' what I've just 'taught' them. Any ideas?

All the best,

S.

Hey guys glad this one resurfaced, Matrix I'm with ya on enigma it's a real short lived experience.

Steve; at first logic dumped all my settings that it had just learned too, but the second time I made sure to save the file immeadiately after learning and it didn't lose them so give that a shot.

So are you guys able to get Logic to use your transport buttons, Rec, play, etc? It just doesn't recognize them on my Ozonic.