Unfortunately PowerMate 3 is not able to send Midi. Either I had to scroll endless to get the fader from bottom to top, or (using the »increase by 10« command in Logic) the fader movement was not fine enough.
This works somehow, but I never could get the parameters adjusted in a natural feeling sensitivity. The only option to access a fader in the Mixer via PowerMate is to use the »increase/decrease last clicked parameter by 1/10« key command in Logic and define key-press-triggers in PowerMate. So hoovering above the fader and using the scroll wheel will not change the fader of the Mixer. Unfortunately Logic ties the scroll wheel to window scrolling.
PowerMate lets you set the sensitivity for each trigger so you can customize the necessary movement to your desire. So for this task you simply make two triggers in PowerMate 3: This is easy too: Most plug-ins allow parameter change by hoovering with the mouse above a control and using the scroll wheel. The PowerMate can be configured to pass any modifier to Logic so pressing cmd while turning the know will trigger a fast forward/rewind (as cmd F7/F9 are the keystrokes for this on my system) 2. Rotate left: key press ✿9« (=Rewind on my setup).Rotate right: key press ✿7« (=Forward on my setup).So I defined three triggers in PowerMate 3 (the keystrokes depend on the settings in Logic): And the PowerMate has been based on keystrokes since day one. Logic has plenty of key-commands for scrolling, scrubbing, jumping, start and stop. This is the easy task that always worked well. If you want to use all three of them you should read down to the switching part bevor starting the setup (otherwise you or the PowerMate or Logic might mix it up).
#Midipipe tutorial how to#
This tutorial shows how to setup each of the three tasks above. Here is how I turned my PowerMate into a universal one knob Logic control (that should work similar for other DAW like Cubase or ProTools). But this changed now with the new PowerMate 3 software ( free dowload at ).
The Griffin PowerMate filled that bill partly for years, but it was more or less limited to one or two tasks and controlling the channel strip of the selected track was cumbersome. Ideally this device should be flexible enough to control various things:Īnd I wanted to switch between all of them. But I always wanted a knob in addition to mouse and keyboard.
#Midipipe tutorial pro#
I have neither the need nor the space (nor the money) for one of the big control surfaces to control my DAW (Logic Pro to be precise). The Griffin PowerMate as flexible DAW and Midi Controller The Griffin PowerMate as flexible DAW and Midi Controller
0 kommentar(er)
