Hi, I’m an experienced composer and pianist, but am very new to using any kind of digital music technology. I saw a post on Reddit that recommended this forum for tech support questions regarding all types of gear. Feel free to ignore or delete if this is not the appropriate space for this.
I have an Arturia Keylab MK2 88-key controller, and I’m using it alongside Spitfire Solo Strings. I’m trying to switch between different sound patches when recording. In the Spitfire software interface within Kontakt, the keyswitches to change sounds are mapped to MIDI notes below the lowest note on the MIDI keyboard. How do I access these switches with the MK2 controller itself? Is it even possible to do so? I’ve tried pressing every button on the blasted thing, to no avail.
Thanks in advance!
Hi,
It looks like that controller has an octave up and an octave down button on the hardware itself. Are you saying that the lowest octave which the keylab mk2 can reach using the octave keys, is still higher than the lowest midi notes required to switch your patches?
Did you try using the transpose function once on the lowest octave to see if it will switch the register below what you’re able to reach using octave alone?
Looks like under keyboard settings, you can also change the lowest note in range.
You ought to be able to map some of the 4x4 pads on the Keylab to those low notes and then use them to switch sounds.
If for some reason Arturia doesn’t allow that, just get the cheapest 25-key USB MIDI controller you can find and use that as your dedicated sound switching device. Or a pad controller, button controller, etc. The Korg Nano series would do the job.
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Yeah, actually if it comes down to it I think you can probably use software to do this.
Like, if it won’t allow you to map them directly to note values you could (probably) set those pads to send certain CC numbers via the midi control center and then further remap that inside the PC to hit those notes in that lowest octave to the same effect.
It would take a few extra steps, but theoretically definitely possible.
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Glad you found the octave buttons and hope that resolved your issue.
