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Problem configuring Keylab Essentials

Started by colinb, October 04, 2021, 08:50:50 PM

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colinb

Hi. I've recently purchased a Keylab Essentials 49 MIDI controller to use with Cakewalk and I am having great trouble trying to configure any control surface I set up.
I have come across AZSlow and downloaded it and at first glance seems to provide enough options to be able to configure anything, but I am running across the same issue that I find with alternative solutions in that I can either have the faders and rotaries interfacing, or the transport controls, but not both.

The issue is that when you install the Keylab software it installs 2 MIDI devices, one for note information and one for control info. This means that with AZSlow I can either have the transport controls working or the faders etc but not both.

Is there any way around this?

For clarity I have attached the MIDIOX output... (Sorry about first file being too big - can't see how to remove it)

azslow3

Keylab is a flexible controller. Probably you can configure it such way that it sends transport and knobs/faders throw MIDI 2 port. My guess it should be the case for "MCU compatible" mode.

But if for some reason you want use 2 ports in parallel, AZ Controller supports that. You will need to use "Cooperation mode" (https://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,10.0.html), for convenience better with "Extra instances" (https://www.azslow.com/index.php/topic,384.0.html). AZ Controller instance with "Master" option set will see both ports, own and "Slave". And so you can configure it normally (f.e. with "Startup" preset).

colinb

Many thanks for the quick reply - I'll try both suggestions and report back for others in the same situation.

colinb

Thanks - Keylab does not allow you to change the controller channel, but the Master/Slave option works fine!

It has raised a couple of questions though but I will raise a new topic rather than divert this one.

Thanks again.