Touchpad 2 Midi - new free plugin from Livelab.dk

[R.A.W.]

sorry ohm, i downloaded yesterday already but couldn't test due to too much work. i hope i'll find the time to test until friday.

[ohm]

Touchpad 2 MIDI 1.0 has been released.

It's available from this page:

http://livelab.dk/touchpad2midi.php

Comments and bugreports are welcome in this thread.

[Eska]

Works well with the also free Oatmeal, http://bicycle-for-slugs.org/. Pressure gives even with my flat guitar fingers something between 5 and 35. Aftertouch would be nice for working with Oatmeal.

[Maniah]

OK, finally had a chance to try the latest release (laptop was setup elsewhere for anothr project).

I notice sometimes when i have a note off using the buttons to trigger a synth, it's not always at zero. Sometimes a note will play on a note off. It doesn't happen all of the time but often.

Other than that, works fine

If i may do a small hijack. Can anyone tell me what plug i would use to cancel note triggering to a specific soft synth?

I have TP2M connected to Drumatic to trigger drum sound and i also have it connected to a synth to control the VCF cutoff. The VCF is affected when i hit the LMB and the drum pads are configured to "no buttons". However, since the soft synth is also connected, it plays along with the drums and i don't want that.
I prefer not to set it to a different MIDI channel cause then i would have to utilize PC keys to switch between channels and i already have them setup to trigger other things (in short i don't have enough keys to switch between MIDI channels).
Is there a plug out there i could use that could be setup between TP2M and the synth so that the synth does not respond to MIDI notes?

[ohm]

pharaoh - I'll check out that note triggering issue, see if I can reproduce it.

NicFit has made a whole bunch of midi plugins - I'm pretty sure one of them can filter out notes. There's a rather complex one called midimungui or something - I'm pretty sure that's the one you want.

[Maniah]

You're like the hundreth person directing me to the MIDI munger. Time for me to learn that thing inside and out once and for all.

[soma]

Hmmm.. not working at all with mine (syanptics drivers 1.8 for xp)
But I'm draging the .dll from the .zip into xt. does that make a differnece?

[Maniah]

Got the caps lock on Soma?

[ohm]

soma - dragging from the .zip makes no difference - it's not a synth edit plugin, so it doesn't need to write files the first time it's lauched.

You have to make sure that the audio engine is running, or the plugin will not be active. Pressing CAPS LOCK will help too.

[jah1234]

This is brilliant! Exactly what I've been wanting for my laptop. Thanks alot.

[djsynchro]

Good stuff!

Got it to work in 5 minutes with Ableton Live5 & HP Laptop thanks to your clear instructions.
Midi Channels are numbered 0-15, shouldn't that be 1-16 ?

[holdbrillan]

Doesnt work here. Tried it with savihost & VSTHost. Crashes when I hit caps-lock. I have an Dell Inspiron 2650 and the latest synaptics drivers..

[holdbrillan]

Works now with savihost. Didn't have the synaptics drivers installed afterall
Crashes ocassionally though. Seems more stable when I have lower latencies in savihost.

Thanks for a super vst. Have been looking a long time for something like this...

[foxal]

hmm, dosn't work on my toshiba satellite M70-160 with Alp touchpad. Should I install synaptics drivers or this touchpad is not supported?

Ahh, don't supported yet. Sorry for this Q

[ohm]

Works now with savihost. Didn't have the synaptics drivers installed afterall
Crashes ocassionally though. Seems more stable when I have lower latencies in savihost.

Thanks for a super vst. Have been looking a long time for something like this...

I'll look into the crashing issue - I can't seem to reproduce it though.
Any other details on what you do when it crashes, the settings / a screenshot of the plugin might speed up the process.