Alesis Photon X 25

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Hey I'm trying to help out a friend of mine with the above midi controller. It comes with an 'axis dome' that you can manipulate with your hand; kind of like a mouse roller ball. He was wondering how you can program it to manipulate pitch etc. Does this depend on the sample or VSTi?
 
TelePaul said:
Hey I'm trying to help out a friend of mine with the above midi controller. It comes with an 'axis dome' that you can manipulate with your hand; kind of like a mouse roller ball. He was wondering how you can program it to manipulate pitch etc. Does this depend on the sample or VSTi?
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Almost certainly. I dont know the unit but I know midi. You are simply controlling any parameters that the patch has.
 
DavidK said:
Almost certainly. I dont know the unit but I know midi. You are simply controlling any parameters that the patch has.
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Ah cool...I take it it's analogue synth vstis then? Stuff like that?
 
It's like a joystick with X and Y axis. X and Y can be almost any midi parameter you want them to be. Modulation/volume....aftertouch/pitch.....patchchange/reverb, pretty endless creative uses.
 
TelePaul said:
Ah cool...I take it it's analogue synth vstis then? Stuff like that?
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Well, its anything you want to control, whether its a hardware synth, effects or a vsti. Keyboards have mod wheels, sliders or knobs. That round thing on the photon is merely another version of those, it may control a few things at one time depending if you move it up or down or right and left. It will control things like filters, where moving it gives you less or more.

The vst instruments themselves can only respond with the parameters they have programmed in ( or you program in). I have a JV1010 (Roland), and you could control it with that. However, it doesnt have a lot of stuff programmed into the presets that would respond to that. I am sure the new analogish synths do, as well as some vsti stuff in that genre. In other words, it wont do much for my JV1010 unless I really mess with it. It will control pitch and modulation, just like the wheels do.

If you use it with synful, it might not do that much. If you use it with fruity loops it will do a lot. Fruiy loops has something similiar onscreen that you can control with the mouse. Bottom line: it will only do what your sound source is programmed to do. Its an elaborate slider/mod wheel combo.
 
thanks telepaul for putting this up, signed up to this forum just a few mins ago. I tried to get fruity loops but there doesn't seem to be a version for OS X although they claim a version for Mac 'intel based with boot camp' which basically means windows.

I configured it to do a coulpe of things on ableton live last night and it kinda worked for my reason demo which is cool.

One more question though. is there any mac friendly programme that will allow it to control a theremin based sound? Or, does anyone know how to confugure this on ableton live 5.0.1?
 
nishy said:
thanks telepaul for putting this up, signed up to this forum just a few mins ago. I tried to get fruity loops but there doesn't seem to be a version for OS X although they claim a version for Mac 'intel based with boot camp' which basically means windows.

I configured it to do a coulpe of things on ableton live last night and it kinda worked for my reason demo which is cool.

One more question though. is there any mac friendly programme that will allow it to control a theremin based sound? Or, does anyone know how to confugure this on ableton live 5.0.1?
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Hmm does kvr audio support mac vsts?
 
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