Monday, March 24, 2008

Farmpad for Korg Padkontrol















I have to admit, after purchasing the Padkontrol I was more than a bit disappointed. The pads had no visual feedback like the Microkontrol and other features just felt limited. It was a bit frustrating, but I learned to live with it.

Then I found Farmpad. Farmpad fills the gaps that Korg overlooked. Farmpad lets you assign a note or CC to any of the buttons on the Padkontrol not just the pads. In addition you can set the lights on all the buttons to act however you need them to.

  • Pads set as triggers will blink when hit.
  • Pads set as switches light on when on, off when off.
  • Pads can be put into groups that effect each other when hit.
With other features like 64 scenes instead of 16, remote control support, and a ton of others that can be found in the read me file, this makes the Padkontrol work how I originally expected it to.

Farmpad is a work in progress and the author takes suggestions for it as well. Usually when a feature is suggested to him it ends up in the next release. Discuss this over at the Korg forums and let him know what a great program it is.

1 comments:

Unknown said...

excellent find. there a few others out the that will do this (and some more), one of them tricing your pk into thinking its a monome!

http://www.nativekontrol.com/
http://www.covops.org/index.php/Freebies/PK-Squared.html


http://post.monome.org/comments.php?DiscussionID=439 - the pk monome info and whatnots.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=93Bi9Lt8Jlc - monome pk in action.