Match Ableton Clip Color to reflect as LED state on MIDI Pads for Akai APC40 MK2
A lot of use on the forum are asking for this feature. We want the Akai APC40 MK2 PADS to light up based on the clip color of the Ableton clip that gets loaded on that PAD.
why did you choose to only go with 3 states for LED feed back? what are you going to implement so that we have LED color matching to clip color on Ableton?
we bought and purchased CSS with the idea that MIDI Mapping would go by a lot faster with your tool you created, so far it’s been more of a hassle trying to get your program to work appropriately mainly because the APC40 has 3 modes like MCBeats has mentioned on multiple forum posts and responses.
MCBeats has even provided the solution to set the modes (giving us a template ready for you to update on your program so that it’s easier on the users to choose between modes (mode 0, 1, and 2).
Made an attempt at assigning Ableton’s color indices to the colors of the APC Mini mk2 (and their corresponding velocities). There are little colors actually overlapping between the 2 palettes, most of it was guesswork what would work best. In the end, I was only able to assign 44 out of the 70 colors Ableton provides as options. So it might be wise to stick to a limited amount of colors when coloring Clips in Ableton.
Next up I’ll try making a script using these connections between the indices and colors. I’m thinking of making a python dictionary, if that’s possible, where the indices serve as the key and the corresponding velocity would be the value. As a safety, when an index is not found it would return a standard velocity (like black or something).
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