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Native Instruments Controller Editor - Avoiding Coloration

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Submitted by Nocturnes on Tue, 04/18/2023 - 23:15
Nocturnes
Control Surface Studio User

Hi. I recently purchased a Traktor Control F1 and want to do my custom script in CSS. At first, I had to download the Native Instruments Controller Editor and set the controller to MIDI-Mode, so CSS and Ableton will recognize it as a MIDI-device. There I also can set custom CC-Values for each Pad, Knob, Button and Fader. For the pads, you can also set the colors. The Problem is, that i want to have different color-codings for different modes -> for example:
Mode 1: every column has a different color, Mode 2: all pads are blue, Mode 3: the pads take the color from the clips in session view,.....

As the coloring of the pads is done by the Native Instruments Controller Editor, I canĀ“t set the color in CSS. When i send different velocity values to a pad, nothing changes, except for on and off - but the color always remains the same as i set it in the Native Instruments Controller Editor software.
How can I avoid this? I want to control the colors from CSS. I looked in the Native Instruments software but there seems to be no option to avoid sending the colors.

I have seen videos where they use the same controller for controlling a session box and the colors of the pads are the same as the clips in Ableton. This script was created with Python as i got it right, so it has to be possible to change the colors outside of the Native Instruments software.
Any help would be appreciated.

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trololololol
Control Surface Studio User
trololololol - Wed, 04/19/2023 - 00:23
#1

Hi, just warch the tutorials and read a bit. This is all kind of basic stuff.

First you need to built your controller in css and there is a menu where you assign colors of pads and switches. These are just midi velocities send from css to the controller. You find the corresponding midi values for the controller here in the forum or in the manual of your controller.

Check the tutorials, the forum and this :

https://remotify.io/community/question/how-display-ableton-track-colors-...

Nocturnes
Control Surface Studio User
Nocturnes - Wed, 04/19/2023 - 11:20
#2

i think you got my question wrong. coloring the pads with velocity values from css scripts does not work, because the colors are set in the native instruments controller editor software. regardless what values i send, the color always remains the way i set it in the native instruments software - only on and off works when sending 127 or 0 for example. I found a thread where it says to switch the controller in "indexed mode" to get that work, but i canĀ“t find anything on how to set my controller to indexed mode.