Following the ration for this MIDI controller, Arturia released a new firmware with the launch of the KeyLab 88 MKII. This new firmware adds another DAW mode that allows to control only the transport buttons (it is possible that someone read this forum). The rest of the buttons that are up are orphaned again. For Renoise it is still necessary to build a specific tool to control everything, the top 8 buttons as well as the transport buttons and the entire central panel of the controller.
However, I must say that I am delighted with this Arturia Midi controler (KeyLab 49 mkII).
By the way, the KeyLab 88 MkII costs almost ā¬ 900, for me, an excessive price, even if the keys have changed.
Just I say that if someone is interested in acquiring a keyboard KeyLab 49 mkII of these (even if itās second-hand, how I did), you can use it with Renoise and the tool Iām finishing. The second-hand market is sometimes a great opportunity.
The Arturia KeyLab mkII tool is almost finished. This is the final aspect:
If someone has a physical KeyLab mkII of Arturia and wants to use this super-tool with Renoise, let me know and I will upload it to the Renoise web tools server.
Ok, letās see if this week I have time and I upload the first version finished. You will see that having this is a luxury!
Unfortunately, I donāt have time to create a user guide. You will have to do tests yourself. When you try it, if you have any questions, you can ask in the thread where the tool will be published.
There will not be a user guide (I donāt have time for that, it costs a lot of work and is very little appreciated by people). I only intend to share the XRNX tool. You just have to install it and thatās it. I may put some basic āhow to get startedā instructions next to the tool link. It will be available in the tools section of the renoise.com website.
I will share it because I know it is very frustrating what Arturia has done with this MIDI controller keyboard, leaving many of its extra buttons dead, which are not compatible with the standard MIDI input.
Feel free to create a manual yourself in English if you consider it appropriate. It could be linked in the publication thread of the tool. You can take the LUA code from the tool and do whatever you want with it, as long as you respect the authorship.
To make a user manual, I do not think that you will see the internal LUA code (it is somewhat complex). Yes you can describe the things that can be done using the tool from Arturiaās MIDI keyboard.
As soon as I publish the tool I will comment here too.
Renoise costs less than ā¬ 100. It is a tremendously cheap software for everything you can do.
The Arturia KeyLab MKii keyboard with only 46 keys costs more than ā¬ 400 new (I bought it second-hand at half the price).
As the firmware of this keyboard comes, the extra control buttons for DAW are useless for Renoise and many other DAWs, because these buttons are not mappable with the standard MIDI input. Then you are buying an expensive and ātrimmedā keyboard, very well thought out so that you can continue to buy Arturia software and continue depending on this brand. Half of the price you pay is for the additional software that comes with the keyboard.
So, people who buy and use Renoise donāt spend so much money on expensive hardware.
Seeing all this context, it is necessary to create a specific tool so that this keyboard can be used with Renoise, it is painful. And this is not Renoiseās fault. The company responsible for this ruling is Arturia.
However, thanks to this tool, you will have one of the best MIDI controllers for Renoise today. I would recommend buying second hand. Surely many users are not happy with Arturia for these details, and they will sell their second-hand product.
On the other side is the 88-key KeyLab Mk2. A price exaggeration for a keyboard that is basically a DAW controller, with connection extras that nobody will use. Not even Arturiaās advertising boasts such extra rear connections. Itās a bit of a joke that in all the ads just hang a USB cable from behind.
Manufacturers are doing the impossible to get money with extras out of place, confusing this with āthe evolutionā of the hardware.
