Paint Audio MIDI Captain foot controller

[mbenigni]

My approach is to use things that do exactly what I want uncovering it's full potential. I used many controllers. And all they firmwares and developers are not satisfying...
So, who can do better than me? Would love to meet that person.

The way changed for midiCaptain and pySwitch. Really thanks for pySwitch developer. Where anyone can build its own firmware with midi feedback for screen and led's. That's really huge.
I spent two hard weeks to make it work as I want. As pySwitch was designed to the Kemper setup - and my setup is Ableton - I have created some functions and classes for my own purpose. And it was much easier then to programm the unit from scratch (which is still achievable for an advanced users).

You're me 20 years ago. Wife and kid and a full time job, and an itch to actually play guitar every now and again... I can only spend so much time with my propeller hat on these days. But I think it's awesome you've made these strides with pySwitch.

The problem still not solved - the hardware. Mr. Wilson put a really slow and limited chip inside midiCaptain with so low memory...

I'd hesitate to call this a "problem". It's all relative. The h/w design was meant to reach a (very reasonable) price point for a very specific application. That application was more limited at time of release than it became with subsequent firmware releases. If he could have foreseen the open-ended nature of pySwitch customization etc. and thus chose a faster CPU, doubled the RAM, etc. and priced it at $300-$400, it might never have sold well enough to warrant that firmware development in the first place.

It's more fair to say that we're about due for a MIDI Captain MkII. But I think we can expect the price to rise considerably.

 

[ballhawk]

A final note: I still think the text file editing - while kind of shockingly retro on first impression - is a fine solution.

can only spend so much time with my propeller hat on these days.

I too have kept it in the original whatchamacallit mode. I spent many years writing database code so understanding the midi text file format came pretty quickly.

But my propeller hat is a little worn down (but not completely). I have to kick myself to dig into stuff and I have not used the MC in quite some time.

Midi gets a bad rap for being hard to understand. If you can suss Presets, Blocks, and Channels then you can do simple midi stuff. Just takes a little effort.

When I was playing out I used midi extensively and was an early adopter. Who has time to turn knobs in the middle of a song? Midi Controllers.....that's who.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Share your insights - would love to admire your success
Don't be shy

It's all ITT.

Just poking fun at the weird flex. Just because someone knows how to hack a game doesn't make them the most experienced player.

I do applaud your efforts though.