Pedro Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 I have an Akai APC 20, but I have no idea how can I configure it in order to work with watchout 6. I follow many tutorials, but I don't find anything that could help me. Any advise? Thanks a lot. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Leong Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 I don't have a APC20 but I understand that when plugged into a Production PC, no device installation is necessary. Windows will recognize it as a MIDI device. Refer to Page 197 onwards in the Watchout 5 manual. Should be the same for Watchout 6 when the manual is released. In Watchout > Window > Input > + sign in the top right corner > MIDI Controller. Thereafter the popup Window is per the manual page 198-199. Should be obvious from here on. In a Task Window, specify the MIDI Controller you have defined as a Trigger to trigger/start an Aux Timeline. Or in a Tween 'f' function for Opacity, Position, Scale or Volume, the std formula is TweenValue * [MIDI Controller you defined] (eg. ModWheel1 or Fade1). Thereafter pushing a defined fader up/down on the APC20 will control the TweenValue of that media item. Hope that gets you started! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
eRIc Chan Posted September 29, 2015 Report Share Posted September 29, 2015 The most important is plug in the midi controller first then only turn on the Watchmaker. My apc 40 no problem for it. Good luck! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted September 30, 2015 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2015 Thanks both of you for your answers. It really help! 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 19, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Thanks for your help last week. I have another question: Is there any way to assign to a button the control of play and pause? I would like to play any timeline from the midi controller. Thanks. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alex Ramos Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 MIDI is kind of limited so you have to be creative... [MIDI] [/url] ... 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Leong Posted October 19, 2015 Report Share Posted October 19, 2015 Alex has shown you the way very clearly! However, to have ONE key for play/pause, it would not be possible with MIDI as the PLAY and PAUSE commands are different in Watchout. What may be possible is not to use MIDI for this, and use a macro keypad instead, assigning the 'spacebar' to a macro key. Have not tried it myself, but X-Keys may serve well here - http://piengineering.com/xkeys/xk4.php 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thomas Leong Posted October 20, 2015 Report Share Posted October 20, 2015 On second thoughts, it is possible to use only one key in MIDI Buttons (as in Alex's example) if you set the property to 'Toggle Action' for the Button's Properties. In this case, Press sends one MIDI Note (to Play the Timeline), and Release sends another MIDI Note (to Pause the Timeline). Each Note would have to be defined in Watchout's MIDI Input Window. Best seen if 'Press' is assigned one color, and 'Release' is assigned a different color in the Button's Properties. If the Akai APC20 has such a feature for a Button's Properties, then it would be possible to use one button for Play/Pause of a Timeline. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pedro Posted October 21, 2015 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2015 Thanks for all the answers. I will try it, and keep all of you informed about it. Cheers. 0 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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