[64studio-devel] M-Audio Axiom transport controls

[Niels Giesen]

Hi G,

I found out that part 10.1 of the ardour manual
http://www.ardour.org/files/manual/ch-control-surfaces.html
can be applied to generic midi interfaces too. I own an axiom61.

Basically it is like : connect your axiom via jack to the control and
mcu ports of ardour. Then, in a template (no: no site wide config
option here :( ) press Ctrl-middle mouse button when the cursor is
over a button. This leads to a dialogue-box popping up in-place,
saying 'operate controller now'. Do so, and from then on, within that
template, the controller n the Axiom controls the control in ardour.
Only one thing strikes me, and that is that I cannot seem to bind
goto start and goto end, which seems to be a problem on the side of
ardour. Please tell whether you find the same problem. Maybe we ought
to file a bugreport there.

By the way, it might be nice to share our Axiom and other
midi-configuration files for ardour, so that we can ease the use of
new hardware. We could start off to do this in the form of very basic
templates shared on the 'net. If we want to have plug-n-play like
stuff for this one day, we got to start of defining good defaults I
guess. For me, it is difficult for instance to decide what sliders and
rotaters to use for  which functions in ardour, and I haven't yet
settled for a single approach, the consequence of which is I do not
use the controls that much. If you have a mind more orderly than mine,
please share your setup once you have settled for a sane approach.

greetings, Niels