Nektar keyboard - reflecting volume status

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Hello all: I hope someone can help or direct me towards an existing solution already posted. I have a Nektar Impact LX88+ controller which has 9 faders, which I have set up to control the volume faders in Gig Performer for my instruments in a rackspace. I use the instruments in various combinations, and have the ones not currently in use in a variation turned all the way down. Directly below each fader on the keyboard is a button which lights up when pressed. I would like to set things up so that the button below each fader lights up when the volume fader is in use; anything other than zero essentially. That would make it easier when playing to tell which instruments are active so that I don’t mistakenly adjust the wrong fader.

Essentially I want a button to light when the fader is NOT turned the whole way down in the rackspace. Thanks for any help here.

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The fader button LEDs on the LX88+ can be set via MIDI CC messages, so this scenario may well be achievable with some GP Scripting.

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That’s what I’m thinking as well. This might force me to take my initial dive into scripting.

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Depending on how the LEDs are set up you may not need scripting.

If they’re on/off LEDs then usually sending a zero would turn them off and any other value would light them.

Possible you could just put a widget controlling the led in the same group as the volume widget and when the vol fader goes to zero it would send cc 0 also.

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The CC value that you send also sets the LED colour

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I ended up taking this approach, along with a little tweaking of the keyboard button assignments. It now works just the way I wanted. Thanks!

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