Imagine you had hundreds of MIDI knobs and mod wheels.
For each pad on the Minilab3, pressing it will get you a whole new set of the non-pad surfaces.
If I just twist the Minilab3’s first knob. We get red activity. But if I hold down the first pad, an independently tracked blue knob value comes out of the expander module:
Feature Summary
Selectively route MIDI through expander modules
Multiplex MIDI by activating multiple expanders
Maintains independent output values for each module
Gate output on each module is high when it’s active
Do you know if your Minilab3 module is compatible with the Arturia hardware Minilab 3 firmware version 1.2.0 ?
I’m trying to use the Arturia MIDI Control Center for my just purchased Minilab 3 hardware to set configuration as described in your manual, but I am am having trouble configuring each of the 8 knobs. Specifically, when I configure user setting for knob 1 to CC 102, in VCV Rack, your log module shows the incoming from this knob to be CC=103.
I’m sure I am doing something wrong, but I thought I would ask here. Thanks.
Hmm, I upgraded to 1.2.0 just now and I’m not having this issue.
Inside the MIDI Control Center, go to View → MIDI Console. That’ll show all MIDI messages right inside of the Control Center. Do you see your knob outputting the wrong CC there too?
I am happy to help you further here or in realtime on Discord.
I just discovered this module and am really excited to use it! After configuring the ML3 with the arturia MIDI, I started using it but am facing some challenges that I presume are linked to my misunderstanding:
When I add the pad expander if I press the pad, I get a note from the Fundamental VCV Midi, plus I can’t seem to move the knobs when pressing the pad? I feel I’m missing something.
When I’m pressing the pad 1, I see something happening but not on the other pads:
Are your pad notes increasing by semitone? You need to set them to increase by octaves instead (i.e., C1, C2, C3, etc.), as mentioned in the documentation.
To stop the VCV Fundamental MIDI module from outputting notes when you press the pads, change the VCV module from “All Channels” to a specific channel and set your Minilab3 to use that channel. (You also need to do this to use the pads with the Minilab3’s default settings)
