Video for "Slow Intentions"

 Shot using a Voigtlander 65mm f2.0 APO Macro

little-scale: Slow Intentions (2021)

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Xiao Mx Ableton Control Surface Script

The Xiao can be mapped as a control surface to control transport from the cherry switches. I find this useful for my setup. The six buttons are mapped to rewind, fast forward, loop, play, stop, rec. 

Download the user config file here: https://github.com/little-scale/arduino-sketches/blob/master/xiao_mx/UserConfiguration.txt

Place this file in /Users/[Username]/Library/Preferences/Ableton/Live x.x.x/User Remote Scripts/XiaoMx/UserConfiguration.txt

Download the sketch here: https://github.com/little-scale/arduino-sketches/blob/master/xiao_mx/xiao_mx_control_surface_script.ino 

Upload this file to the Xiao board. In Ableton, open up preferences and go the Link Tempo MIDI tab. Select the XiaoMx script in the Control Surface drop down menu. Select the Xiao as the input and output. 

Xiao Mx MIDI Device

A simple MIDI device that uses the Adafruit TinyUSB library, a Seeed Studio Xiao, 6 Cherry Mx stabilised switches and 5 9mm Alpha pots. 

Code, schematic, PCB layout, Gerber files can be found here: https://github.com/little-scale/arduino-sketches/tree/master/xiao_mx