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I connected my korg pa4x to the DAW (logic pro x) with usb.
mac: big sur.

i'm working with Kontakt, so when I play some keys (C, D, E#) i see that Kontakt receive all notes properly!

how can I send the transpose event to the DAW?

thanks a lot

Liam

Hi Liam

I'm not super experienced in this area - I too use my PA4X with Logic (via Roland HS5)

All I can say (confirm) is the transpose does get sent. Even in a basic sense, I sometimes MIDI my PA4X to Kronos (using Kronos as a sound device) and transpose sends and is received perfectly (i.e. Kronos becomes transposed).

Not sure if this helps at all - sorry for my lack of tech here....

Pete

karmathanever wrote:Hi Liam

I'm not super experienced in this area - I too use my PA4X with Logic (via Roland HS5)

All I can say (confirm) is the transpose does get sent. Even in a basic sense, I sometimes MIDI my PA4X to Kronos (using Kronos as a sound device) and transpose sends and is received perfectly (i.e. Kronos becomes transposed).

Not sure if this helps at all - sorry for my lack of tech here....

Pete

thanks for response.
How can I handle transpose event in the daw or rather how can I listen to transpose message and act inside Kontakt?

The transpose events (pressing the dedicated transpose keys) are sent as SysEx messages.

On my Korg Pa3x the messages for each transpose are:
-11: SysEx Message: 0x7f 0x7f 0x4 0x4 0x0 0x35
-10: SysEx Message: 0x7f 0x7f 0x4 0x4 0x0 0x36
...
0: SysEx Message: 0x7f 0x7f 0x4 0x4 0x0 0x40
+11: SysEx Message: 0x7f 0x7f 0x4 0x4 0x0 0x4b

Unfortunately, NI Kontakt does not support/handle SysEx messages.

One workaround could be to transform these SysEx messages to MIDI CC and route it to Kontakt.