Behringer X Touch Universal Control Surface

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Hello I have just bought the Behringer X Touch Universal Control Surface and was wondering if I could midi map the motorize faders using remotify?

I would need the faders to react and update with Abelton live. I Don’t like the Mackie protocol that it uses now because the mapping Behringer provides is kind of wonky and a lot pf the buttons don’t do anything with their current mapping.

The control of the VSts is kind of slow and I need them to move faster when twisting the knobs, plus I want the knobs to control a filter straight from the first page instead of clicking through screens to reach the parameter.

Can I edit the Mackie control protocol? I see its a .py file so I assume not.

Also will this need reactions to speak back and fourth to control the faders then update the faders portion physically?

Any help would be appreciated.

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Hi,

Sending LED feedback / midi velocity to the controls should activate the motorized faders.
This can be done using the standards midi mapping types in CSS.
One thing to note, we have had report that the feedback causes the motorized faders to move in a ‘jerky’ fashioin, rather than smooth.
I would recommend using a mixture of reactions and live’s ‘framework’ to attach midi controls to functions in Ableton. This does mean that you would lose the customisable options of our own mapping types.

Also, the ‘framework’ approach is as yet undocumented anywhere. What would feedback would you be wanting for your faders?

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Its usually the LED/Velocity feedback which actually makes the faders move into position.

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I had an x-touch awhile back. If you go to Ableton forums (I think) and use similar search terms there is a poster who a: provides a couple of x-touch scripts (also on YouTube iirc) but most importantly B: provides a little exe that interpolates/refines the resolution of the midi out data to the x-touch and therefore smooths the travel of the faders. It worked really well, it’s an issue with resolution or something. I’m reaching about 2 years back in my mind so apologies it’s.a bit vague. Absolutely is out there. Summary of solution: I ended up with two x touch scripts running in prefs named “x-touch” and “x-touch XT” plus a very minimal exe opened that smoothed the midi in the background (on windows ovs).

I might even have the scripts on my g-drive somewhere.

Message me on insta @degree3audio or something. Prolly just Google and youtube the above though for better resources and explanations with it. YouTube “x-touch fader fix” too maybe. Cheers

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