Okay, here I'm going to give you a quick demo of our new code controller.
It's a nice small compact controller that has a grid of eight by four encoders that
also work as push buttons.
And then you have function buttons all alongside of the rows and the columns of the encoders.
The way the encoders work is pretty nice.
It lights up an LED ring.
You can see it here lighting up as I move the encoder.
So it shows you your position and also if I was to adjust it in the software, it would
also update on the controller itself.
So it's relative to the settings in your software.
Send standard zero to 127 MIDI data so it can be used as a USB controller.
It also has MIDI in and out jack so you can use it as a analog device.
I have it running here live just so I can show you some basic stuff it can do.
Of course, it's a standard MIDI controller so you can use it with pretty much any software
for audio production, mixing, video, VJing.
And it also is open source.
The firmware for it is open source so you can, if you're a programmer, you can modify
the source and have it do other things.
So here, let me just kind of show you how I have it set up here live just to give you
an idea of how it could be used.
Of course, you can use it with anything, not just live.
The way I have it set up here is I have eight tracks set up and then I have each of these
buttons, which are also knobs, launching clips.
And the first knob in each row, or in each column rather, controls the volume, the master
volume for that track.
And then this column here controls the master for the set.
This is my master volume and then I have these for EQ.
The nice thing about these LED rings is they give you an indication of where you are and
they also light up green.
So when you're all the way at the maximum value, it lights up green.
And then, obviously, when you're at the lowest point, zero, it turns off.
They also, each button also has a light for the button.
So that white light there is showing me that this clip is playing if I trigger this one.
I have it quantized, so this clip is now playing and now this clip is playing, so on and so
forth.
So let me just play a clip here and you can see how I kind of have this set up.
So I turn my volume up here, then I have my master volume over here.
Let me turn that up.
So I have this set to trigger different clips and now I have a clip playing.
I'll show you how I have this set up to work with effects.
So this is one track, this is track two, this is track three.
I'm watching different clips in that track.
The way I have it set up here is I have these buttons here triggering the effects, so I'm
turning on my effect here with the effect rack and the first column I have the repeater
set up.
So let me go ahead and turn that on.
I have these controlling different parameters of that.
This is for interval, this is for offset.
This is for pitch.
So you can see it's nice because I'm controlling this track with different clips, turn the
repeater on and off.
I'm going to go ahead and just start another track here so you can see how it works on
a separate track.
I have a frequency shifter set up for this track for my effects.
This controls the dry and wet, the amount of that effect, this controls the amount of
the LFO.
I'm going to go ahead and turn this track up again and turn my effect on.
So now I have these two effects running and when that lights on, that shows me that effect
on top.
Go ahead and turn another track on here.
I don't have any effects set up here, but I have this set up to control EQ gain, so
I'm going to go ahead and turn that on.
You can see I have all my EQs turned down, so there's nothing playing now.
This is high.
I'm going to turn all the way up, you'll see it turn green, this is mid, and this is low.
Turn the high down.
Now I just have the mid up.
Now I have these controlling the launch scenes here, so I'm just going to go ahead and launch
one, turn all these tracks up.
I'm going to turn my EQ off so you can kind of see what's going on in here.
I'm going to turn my effects off.
That's basic functionality of the code controller and how it works with encoders and how all
the LEDs respond.
There's going to be a lot more tutorials on how to use this with a lot of other programs.
I just wanted to give you kind of a quick overview on what the possibilities are for
the encoders.
