Touchdesigner - Midi controller quick start guide

Blog post for this tutorial here:
t.co/qYSqYXTxcK
In this nice quick tutorial we look at setting up and customizing a device map for the AKAI LPD8 midi controller.
Accessing raw data, creating a specific device map for the pads and dials and them implementing them into a quick use case.
Enjoy!

[@justinbarca1835]

If anyone here is thinking "there must be a better way to populate these mappings", I discovered a spreadsheet formula that I was able to use to automatically generate all the messages, it goes something like =CONCATENATE( "ba " , DEC2HEX(ROW(), 2), " --"). You'll need to adjust the strings and the first param to the DEC2HEX depending on your starting point. Exporting the spreadsheet as a tsv, one can navigate to /local/midi/userdevices/template and populate the dat tables via Ctrl+e, pasting the contents of the tsv.

[@jeanchretien3186]

Hello thx for this tutorial!
I just can't find how to import a custom midimap in a new project (or even better, have it in every new project by default...)
If anyone as a clue...

[@alexeyparkhomenko6237]

thank you a lot, only essential information

[@alejocalderon5676]

Great contribution to the world, thanks

[@theboytheycalljonny1]

Very helpful. Thanks a million!

[@sophialiarou4688]

thank you!

[@erasmuskid]

thank you

[@batucertel]

How can I change the range of the slider between 0 and 1 like in the video? Mine works from 0 to 127 in the select chop. Thanks a lot for the tutorial by the way!

[@Under1The2Bridge3]

I'm kinda new to this but maybe you could route it through a function to reduce the range

[@batucertel]

@@Under1The2Bridge3 I solved it a few months ago, by using the math chop prior to the select chop. By the way, this video helped me to use TD with midi, so thanks a lot

[@samuelmarshall100]

Everything works except I can't hear anything through my headphones

[@nicholasjuister8230]

Awesome tutorial! I was wondering if there was any way to save the new device mapping to the MIDI mapper in order to open in another project file? Thanks!

[@GregFurber]

Came here with the same question. Did you find a good solution? Best I can find is creating a custom new project file that has this saved in it already or exporting the data as table that can be referenced.

[@leitflux]

Matt Ragan gives a pretty good answer to this in Part 3 of his MIDI Mapping series.
Here's a playlist link. TLDR you can export a custom component TOX with your MIDI mappings for each new controller then just import it into different projects as you please.
th-cam.com/video/XLeghJmFBh0/w-d-xo.html

[@quentinmckay8658]

@@leitflux slight correction. he talks about it at the very end of Part 2 👍