light feedback with SP-555 as a midi controller?

felart · Post by **felart** » Tue Jul 01, 2008 7:21 pm

Hi,

If I use the sp-555 as midi controller with ableton live, does it reflect clips status?

For example, if pad 1 of the SP-555 is midi mapped with clip1 in ableton live: if clip1 is triggered via mouse in ableton, does pad1 reflect the status of the clip1 (light on if clip1 is playing and light off when clip1 is stopped in ableton)?

Thanks in advance for your response.

Dj Frantic · Post by **Dj Frantic** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 12:25 am

not sure. never tried. but i would imagine it does

felart · Post by **felart** » Wed Jul 02, 2008 9:37 pm

Thanks for your response.

I'm not sure it does cause the manual says that SP-555 recognize Note on but not note off. I think it's a strange MIDI implementation but I don't have a sp-555 yet to verify!

If SP-555 could have light feeback, we could use it as a monome and it would be very cool!

Dj Frantic · Post by **Dj Frantic** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 3:50 am

I should say that u will need to have something recorded to the pad for it to light up. but aside form that it should.

PHeMoX · Post by **PHeMoX** » Thu Jul 03, 2008 2:43 pm

It depends more on the software than the SP-555 actually... the SP just sends midi messages... whether that's one longer signal or several shorter behind eachother, either way it will cause the SP pads to light up. Probably also the case for software programs interpretations of the incoming SP messages.