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

[Gustin Johnson]

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I have been very happy with this keyboard.  I bought it mainly to
replace my old cheap keyboard as I liked the feel of the keys.  The drum
pads were nice as well.  The transport and sliders were optional in a
"it would be nice to get them working eventually" sort of way.

Some of the knobs and sliders made changes to zynaddsubfx so there is a
lot of potential coolness here.  I am still figuring this out as I have
had my keyboard for about a week.  Just in time for the workshop I am
supposed to do for a FOSS festival tomorrow.  Nothing like adding new
hardware into the mix at the last minute :)

One thing to be careful about is that the Axiom has internal presets
that dictate how it presents itself to your computer.


Niels Giesen wrote:
> Hi G,
> 
> I found out that part 10.1 of the ardour manual
> http://www.ardour.org/files/manual/ch-control-surfaces.html

Good to know, my google incantations were less than productive.

> can be applied to generic midi interfaces too. I own an axiom61.

I have the 49 key model.

> 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

On mine I see two entries for the Axiom in the jack midi section.  I do
not know what the second one does (I am guessing it is presenting the
midi in port on the back as a separate midi interface?)

> 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.

I do plan on documenting my discoveries on this nice (so far) piece of
hardware.  I'll keep you posted on my progress.  I can also give you
some space on one of my web servers if you need somewhere to upload
templates and the like.

I am not sure how much plug and play autoconfiguration we can do.  There
are so many ways that I can see this device being used, that providing a
sane default would be challenging.

> 
> greetings, Niels

Cheers,
Gustin
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