Behringer X-Touch Review/ Problems

[bjones306]

@HughH

I use it for multiple MIDII CC’s and CC switches to VST instruments and a B*ttload of other generic remote features including Control Room Volume, Click and Volume, bunch of Edit stuff, Add/Remove/Select Layers. Record Mode, etc.
Still have quite a few buttons and knobs left so I’m still assigning.
It’s very cool.

NOTE: If you use this unit (or any hardware) as a Generic Remote AND an additional controller for VST Instruments (as I do) then you have the issue of Generic Remote commands triggering your VST Instruments in record or whatever.
This is because you have to use “All MIDI Inputs” on your VSTis to receive the Keyboard AND the separate hardware together.
I get around this by dedicating MIDI channel 16 for this Generic Remote. Every Note on/off, CC, whatever, that is a Generic Controller (Not for the VSTi) is on channel 16. Everything meant for an Instrument is on Chan1. You can assign independent MIDI Chans (and everything else) on EVERYTHING on the Compact.
Then I go into Preferences and filter input on chan 16. This allows it to the Generic Remote but not to anything else.

Hey Hugh, hopefully you’re still monitoring this thread as I just picked up an X Touch compact this week and had a few questions for you regarding the way you’re controlling CC’s for VSTi’s. It sounds like you’re using the device in the exact way I had planned to regarding some VSTi controller information and some cubase control information. I get the assignments in the X Touch editor for the most part, but you said you were filtering via the preferences in cubase for other commands you were sending on channel 16. My questions would be the following.

1. If I’m using the faders to control CC’s for VSTi’s, such as modulation, expression, volume, etc…, and that’s all assigned to MIDI channel 1, what do I set the FADER-TOUCH values to? Do they need to match the fader values in the FADER section of the editor, or do they need to be set to off, or just set to channel 16? Wasn’t sure how to define those and if they would interfere with the normal fader settings. A better question would probably be, what do you use that functionality for, if anything, and how do you have those set?

2. I would suspect the answer is no, but can you run the x touch editor while cubase is open, or do you need to do all assignments in the editor before you launch cubase? It seems if you try to run the editor after cubase is launched, the dump functions and such are grayed out. So I’m assuming you need to make any and all assignments to the compact in the editor first, save them, THEN open cubase?

It’s a pretty damn versatile controller, and adds a ton of functionality. Thanks in advance for any help you can provide, and if I wasn’t clear enough regarding the questions just let me know.