Help- using an arduino to make a midi controller

Hey here's what you can do, you got a Guitar Center or any guitar shop nearby? Bring your controller and ask if you can go there and try their KP3, with your controller

So let me guess this straight, you move your finger lengthwise as the X axis right? Would you be able to code it so that the X axis is treadle position and the Y axis is inactive? Also, do you have the hold button working for the Whammy?

The hold button is what I controll with the X axis for the whammy. yes i could just turn the X axis off and controll the treatle purely with the Y axis, but basically the touch pad has so many possible "buttons" that I thought i could use the X axis for something, and it works.

The encoder does work...but its not very clean, every once in a while it skips one effect... but thats just cus I stole some code off this site and didnt really alter it for my encoder how i needed to.

besides all this isnt my priority.

Another person on this forum is emailing me to try and sort this, and he has the same problem... so i know its not the kaoss pad.

it will just take time. but i wont be able to work on it for the next week.. so meh. ill see what i can do after.

Sounds pretty sweet Chris

Sorry to hear about the Kaoss Pad roadblock. Hopefully you'll get that worked out. I'll keep my eye out for any clues that Gaz may have carelessly revealed :slight_smile:

As for the separate coding, that would be great if you could do that. I really like the way Gaz has his Whammy control set up.

"Stole" the code huh? Lol that just sounded funny to me.

All right, cheers and good luck!

you would still need to map the code for every individual touch pad

as the size changes anyway.

Ah, so if I used the exact same DS touch pad it would work?

it would work as well as mine, yes.

BUT i still cant get the signals to be transmitted to my KP2... completely out of ideas now.

This is really strange. And you tried it on another guy's KP2 as well, right? Perhaps bassman would send you the code if you begged? Lol.

Hello! I'm from Portugal, i'm working in the same. How are your projects?

hey buddy.

well so far I've gotten the code for the digitech whammy to work 100% and the kaoss pad only needs the touch pad to work. once that is done...I'm finished. I also wrote a code that if i press a button. I alternate between the codes.

I am half portuguese and speak portuguese fluently, so if you wanna get in touch with me via PM, maybe we could help each other out?

thanks.

Haha! Small world huh?

May I suggest having the codes being switched via a press of the rotary encoder?

This is so awesome, props to you man. Big step forward from the start.

Hey all,
I got one of Gareth's kits ordered. Hopefully this will allow some insight on the mystery of the KP2's unresponsiveness

Well, now you can help me with something?

hey Phi, how'd you get one of Gareth's kits? i haven't been able to contact him in like a year, seems he vanished from earth :-/

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/lango_81/m.html?_nkw=&_armrs=1&_from=&_ipg=&_trksid=p4340

Hello all,
First, to Super Matt, that link should work. If you email Gaz at the email advertised on his YouTube he should notify you when he has kits for sale.

bernardin0, what do you need?

And back to Chris, I may be pointing out the obvious, but each coordinate should send out 2 MIDI values at the same time (X and Y). Also, I'll have to double check, but the CC it's sent on is specific

Phi can put your code for all work it out, like chris did.

Really!? Does he still make them? It was rumoured that he stopped making those kits

I've been making the same controller and I have the same problem as Chris. Everything works fine, diodes, MIDI sending. I have no problem with changing program via MIDI. But when it comes to sending MIDI CC12 and CC13, it just doesn't work. I have no idea what to do, I've tried everything.

so now I know 3 people with the same problem... which leads me to think we are missing something very basic...possibly to do with the kaoss pad itself. Phi, does the kit work on your kaoss pad? and if so can you tell us exactly how it acts...etc

thanks.

I suspect that there is some little MIDI message that allows us to take MIDI control of the XY pad. That's why I asked Phi (via PM) if he could send me the MIDI messages that Gareth's kit send to KP (there is a program called MIDI monitor, it monitors every received MIDI message).
The best way would be to have MB-1 at home for one day to check everything. We could also ask some people on youtube who own that guitar to tell us every single message sent by the XY pad. But unfortunately most of youtube users don't respond to the messages sent to them.
For now, I've run out of ideas.

Btw. Chris, can you tell me how do you read rotary encoder position? I've tried couple of codes which I found online but none of them is fully working. They skip one or two positions from time to time. So I would be grateful if you could help me with this.

Cheers.