keys not quite what I want

Lowfront

2009-03-11 06:54:45

If I want a key to send a keyboard command, how do I get it so i can just push it and it will send the command.

Right now I have to hold it down in order for the command to happen. Then when I let go it goes back.

For example

in ableton I want to do mousless control like hit shit and tab together. but when i do this I have to hold the key down or it switchs back.

I just want to be able to hit the key and have a key combination sent thats all.


Thanks!!!

beatpete

2009-03-11 16:19:33

Lowfront wrote: in ableton I want to do mousless control like hit shit and tab together.

Thanks!!!
I've wanted a shit key for years...

florian

2009-03-12 15:24:02

Hi Lowfront,

I assume you have an incoming MIDI message like "90 40 pp" where pp is a local variable which receives the velocity. Now MIDI keyboards send such a message when you press down the key, and the same message but velocity 0 when you release it. I guess that's why you have the described double-trigger.

Now the fix is best done with a Rule in MT Pro:

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if pp=0 then "exit rules, do not execute outgoing action"
Add this rule to all such translators where you have velocity as a variable, but only want to execute the outgoing action when press down.

Is that what you mean?
Thanks,
Florian