Using Control Surfaces

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 2:04 am

I was thinking about getting this control surface: http://www.fruity-loops.com/item--EM.MA-9900-40851-00

What kinds of things could I do with this and control surface settings ?

Robomusic · Post by **Robomusic** » Mon Feb 05, 2007 4:14 am

From the manual "The Studio menu's Control Surface option pops up the Control Surface Settings window. Here you can assign control surface knobs to specific functions using the Learn function. Ready to use presets for the TranzPort (Frontier Design Group), the BCF2000 (Behringer) and the UC33 (Evolution) are provided." Other may and will work but most likely will need to be mapped.

mcairenius · Post by **mcairenius** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 12:38 pm

You can manipulate midi sounds like adding realtime pan change
the way midi sounds sound, it basically adds more fun than rather
adding effects to a midi track by hand. I have keystation pro88
and it has a built in control surface, realtime is the key word here.

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Fri Feb 09, 2007 7:49 pm

mcairenius wrote:You can manipulate midi sounds like adding realtime pan change
the way midi sounds sound, it basically adds more fun than rather
adding effects to a midi track by hand. I have keystation pro88
and it has a built in control surface, realtime is the key word here.

I just looked up your KeyStation Pro 88 controller on the M-Audio website. That's an amazing looking controller. I didn't know such a thing existed.

Thanks for your comments.

NystagmusE · Post by **NystagmusE** » Tue Feb 27, 2007 1:34 am

Today I got the Evolution X-Session USB MIDI control surface in the mail.
It is compact and lightweight. I had some trouble with the installation program, but I was able to install the drivers manually into the system folder.

I fired up MultitrackStudio and assigned some functions to the X-Session with the Learn button. Everything is working just fine.

I recommend this control surface for anyone who needs one compact and easy to use. The other nice thing about it is the knobs are not continuous dials. That way you can turn the knob from minimum to maximum without it jumping back down to minimum again if you turn it too far.

http://www.m-audio.ca/products/en_ca/XSession-main.html

It has 16 assignable knobs, 10 assignable buttons, and one assignable DJ-style fader.

If anybody needs to know how to manually install the drivers I can tell you how.