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Jordan Nash
Jordan Nash
Inspiring
August 13, 2020
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Behringer X-Touch Mini Support in Audition and Premiere Pro

  • August 13, 2020
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I got my new X-Touch Mini today, and I have to say that I'm very disappointed with how little support Audition and Premiere Pro have for it. For instance, support is limited to Mackie Control (MC) mode, the encoder knobs are limited to panning, and the buttons to their default functions, some of which don't work. 

 

This device is relatively inexpensive and is extremely popular with Lightroom Classic users (using the midi2lr plugin).  It is unfortunate that the developers couldn't invest a little bit of time to make this device awesome in Audition and Premiere Pro by creating one or more maps for it to make this and other control surfaces as useful as possible. 

 

Capture One, for instance, supports full MIDI mapping so you can easily map the controls to any function in their software. 

 

    Correct answer Jordan Nash

    Any possibility of posting the BIN files here so that hand-copying the TXT contents isn't necessary? That would be a tremendous timesaver, sounds like. Getting my unit today and anxious to get over this config hump. 😉


    Here you go, all of my MIDI research. Hopefully, it will prove useful to you and others following the quest to make their MIDI controllers useful. https://www.icloud.com/iclouddrive/0Ipm-ypTfjNKkNSpSznTVrjig#MIDI

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    Jordan Nash
    Jordan NashAuthor
    Inspiring
    August 14, 2020

    So, I did find the SDKs in https://www.adobe.io/apis/creativecloud/audition.html and I noticed that they provide pretty good documentation and a Control Surface sample project. Unfortunately, I don't really have the time right now to write the C++ code to define the Behringer Mini as a custom control surface, but I will forward the links to them to perhaps inspire them to invest a little bit of time into Premiere Pro and Audition, which share the API and the resultant plugin.

      SteveG_AudioMasters_
      Community Expert
      SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
      Community Expert
      August 14, 2020

      I think that would be an excellent course of action!

      Jordan Nash
      Jordan NashAuthor
      Inspiring
      August 16, 2020

      Good news!

       

      I found a list of Mackie Control MIDI values and I've been working to create a working map for Audition and Premiere Pro. 

       

      I need to refine it a bit, but my encoders are working as faders now, and I hope to share the procedure and settings here soon, maybe tomorrow. 

        SteveG_AudioMasters_
        Community Expert
        SteveG_AudioMasters_Community Expert
        Community Expert
        August 13, 2020

        Why are you complaining to us about Behringer's failure to produce an effective interface? If Behringer choose not to map the Mackie protocol adequately, there's not exactly a lot Adobe can do about that, is there? And anyway, we're a U2U group - there's even less we can do about it!

         

        The protocols that Audition supports are Mackie, HUI Presonus FaderPort and EUCON. Plenty of choice there.

        Jordan Nash
        Jordan NashAuthor
        Inspiring
        August 17, 2020

        The interface works fine. The problem is that AdobeSDK, which Audition and Premiere Pro use for Control Surface plugin support, fails to recognize most of the MIDI commands; so even some of the few commands that are listed in Button Assignments don't actually work.

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