I am completely new to all this stuff. no knowledge on dj/vj thing + never had any midi device. well, till the day before yesterday.
I bought Korg nanoKontrol + Akai LPD8 on the day 2 (of my m8 experience) just because I felt I needed some controllers. After spending 1 whole day in figuring out what bus, channel, cc, notes are, I managed to map some knobs and sliders to those controllers.
and that stopped at 'SOME'.
1. which function do you guys map to controllers? I know the answer will depend on which feature I use the most but I don't really any at this point, since I just started. All I know is that I want 3-4 layers of movies (background, midfield, foreground, special pop-in) come and go. I have those 4 layers in group A only. (tbh, I don't know what adding group B can help with doing the above.) Anyways, any input would reduce amount of time wasted in trial/error.
2. I felt that I would need more buttons than knobs and sliders. would having a controller with a bunch of buttons, like apc20 (is it called launcher?), help me a lot? Switching between 'scene' or 'program' has been a challenging task for me. (and there were tasks that I wanted to do simultaneously across multiple layers, such as layer opacity)
Thanks in advance.
Jay