Korg padKontrol Native Mode Tools

Attached is a session that lets you turn the padKontrol's native mode on. This mode sets the pK up where the state of the lights and display can be controlled with sysex commands.

On the left side of the Clicks & Ports layer there are 4 buttons that must be clicked in their proper order for native mode to be initiated. As you click each one you should see the pK respond as follows:

Button #

1. Unit goes dark.

2. All lamps light up.

3. All lamps go dark.

4. Nothing.

If that didn't happen, then you either didn't set the pK's port correctly as shown below in the pic, or your pK's global MIDI channel isn't set to channel 1. You can fix the latter with Korg's padKontrol Editor app.

Once the thing is in native mode, there are 4 button arrays in this environment which change the lamp state for each pad, On/Off/One-shot/Blink.

To make it easy to use in your own construction, the buttons can receive and be triggered by notes:

C-2 makes the pad blink. (that's C "minus" 2)

D-2 turns the pad lamp on.

E-2 turns the pad lamp off.

F-2 one-shot flashes the pad lamp.

The 16 buttons respond to the 16 MIDI channels, from top left to bottom right. So, for example, if you want to turn on the top right pad lamp, feed the "On 4" button with a D-2 "note on" message on MIDI channel 4.

These will be handy for anyone that wants to work with the pK lamps in native mode as you don't have to mess with the sysex messaging, it's done for you.

There's some buttons that demo the LCD display, and if you press play there's a nifty visual metronome that lights pad 1 for every beat 1, and pad 2 for the rest of the measure's beats.

I'll post another version sometime that does more stuff. You'll see the pK still sends notes from its pads when in native mode (as well as sysex).

f8_padKontrol_Native_Tools.logic.zip

Trying to translate this padKontrol scheme for the microKontrol, but no joy so far. Apart from setting the correct ports, should I just need to substitute mK info for pK info in all the SysEx faders? Is there more to it than that?

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