I’m having trouble accessing the pads on my Akai Advance 61. MIDI-wise, the pads are essentially an extension of the keyboard, i.e., they send “midi notes” and the first pad is C7.
So I created a simple rack with a MIDI plugin and Omnisphere. I mapped the MIDI plugin to the Akai and used “Learn” to assign the pads. So far so good. If I press the pads, the keys press on the keyboard in the plugin properties. But, no sound comes out of my instrument.
Using the same setup, if I use “Learn” to pick a range of keys on the normal keyboard, the instrument makes sound.
Yes - please insert a MIDI Monitor block and connect it to your MIDI In block, then press those pads and send us what you see within the MIDI monitor block window.
Sorry, but I didn’t understood what you mean with “learn” regarding standard keyboard keys. I usually use MIDI “learn” to assign a GP widget to an external MIDI controller knob/button/fader, while the GP widget is also associated to a plugin parameter. I think I missed something… it is perhaps related to Omnisphere that I don’t own…
Good call on using a Midi monitor. The pads are sending on channel 10 and the keys are sending on channel 1. I’m thinking of switching to GP from Mainstage. On Mainstage, I can use the pads (channel 10) with Omnisphere just fine. Is there a GP setting in the instrument plugin that indicates what channels to use?
