Controller - Assign Help Needed!

[ledeux_machina]

Hi,
Just yesterday, I bought the Edirol PCR3- Midi Controller Keyboard and it`s great.
But the thing is, I want to assign the buttons and knobs to control the parametres, volumes, pan etc in Logic Audio Platinum 5.5...I`ve treid all the memory sets and I`ve downloaded the memory sets off the edirol site but nothing seems to work. In the manual it says you can have the L1 L2 and L3 buttons to work as Rewind, Play and Stop buttons etc. But the settings in the manual are for Cubase, Sonar and Pro Tools....no Logic!
Please help...am I being ignorant and is it something very simple?!
I just basically have no idea how to assign the buttons to do things in logic for me! I`d like to be able to use the faders on the Keyboard to do some "touch" automation...but it doesn`t happen!
Thankyou for any help in explaining how to use all these midi codes etc?!?!?
Thankyou !!!
Alex

 

[ssscientist]

Posting in more than one forum is called 'crossposting' and it's frowned on here and on most other BBS's.

Now that we've got that out of the way, on to your question.

Those sliders send Midi Continuous Controller information and I haven't dealt with Logic since Macintosh bought it and scrapped the PC version, but if it works the way it used to you need to control-click on the parameter you want to assign and then slide/turn the fader/knob on the keyboard thru it's whole range.

The rewind, play, stop stuff you are talking about is called MMC or Midi Machine Control. Read the midi specs that came with Logic to see if it supports this protocol. If not, because it's not really a machine but an application running on a machine there may be a work-around using midi CC's - again, read the manual.