Hi folks! A few years ago, this forum was super helpful with this project I was working on, which was a guitar-mounted MIDI controller that used the Teensy LC. It turned out great (here's a video if you'd like to see it). Anyway, I'm hoping you folks could give me a little more guidance on this new project I'm working on, and I apologize in advance for such a noob question. I haven't actually opened up the enclosure and looked at the Teensy LC since I finished my last project, but my recollection is that there's a row of pins for keyboard-type control, and another row of pins for continuous control, like mod wheels. So I'd basically like to use my Teensy LC to work like a midi controller with a bunch of mod wheels -- as many as possible. I just wanted to know if this is possible, and also, perhaps someone could help me get started or point me to the right tutorial. I'm mainly wondering what the code would look like. I'm using Teensyduino on a Mac running macOS Mojave. Thanks!
For those of you are curious, here's why I want to do this: I basically want to "trick" Ableton Live into thinking that I'm using mod wheels when I'm actually using buttons. This is a way for me to get around the fact that, when you use a MIDI keyboard as a remote controller in Live, it ignores "key up" data. So there's no way to set it up so that you can enable a track or device when you press down a key, and disable it when you release the key. However, you can set it up so that you can enable something when you turn a mod wheel up, and disable it when you turn the wheel back down. So if you just wired a push button to the pot in a mod wheel, it would do what I want and it would be just like Ableton is responding to "key up" data. Btw, if someone knows of a way to do this without having to build a special controller, please let me know! I haven't had any luck on Ableton's forums at all.
For those of you are curious, here's why I want to do this: I basically want to "trick" Ableton Live into thinking that I'm using mod wheels when I'm actually using buttons. This is a way for me to get around the fact that, when you use a MIDI keyboard as a remote controller in Live, it ignores "key up" data. So there's no way to set it up so that you can enable a track or device when you press down a key, and disable it when you release the key. However, you can set it up so that you can enable something when you turn a mod wheel up, and disable it when you turn the wheel back down. So if you just wired a push button to the pot in a mod wheel, it would do what I want and it would be just like Ableton is responding to "key up" data. Btw, if someone knows of a way to do this without having to build a special controller, please let me know! I haven't had any luck on Ableton's forums at all.