Triggering events with a keyboard (the black and white kind)

Nevermind, I found it. For those who don't know this feature, it's actually a secondary option of key bindings. You can find it on page 994-995 of the reference guide for X1.

This functionality has always been a little flaky.

I just tried setting it up again, and it doesn't seem to be working fully in either X1 or 8.5.3 - at least not for transport control. Stop, Pause and Rewind are okay, but Record just plays the count-in, and then starts the transport without putting it in Record mode, and Play (Play/Stop or Play/Pause toggle in X1) does not start playback.

I'd be interested to know if the OP or anyone else can get Play and Record to work.

It could be the keyboard itself causing problems, but now that I think about it that doesn't make much sense.

Actually, that does make sense, and it solves the problem. The keyboard I'm using sends All Notes Off when the last key is released. I would have thought the MIDI keybinding function would ignore this, just as it ignores individual Note Off messages, but apparently not. The function works with a keyboard that does not send All Notes Off.


I normally have MIDI Event Filters in MIDI tracks for synths that don't get along with this, but there's no way to block it for MIDI keybindings. 


Fortunately my keyboards are stacked, so I can use the other one for MIDI keybinding. It does make recording a little easier.


Thanks for reminding me about both MIDI keybindings, and All Notes Off. I was just discussing that in another thread, but somehow it didn't occur to me it might have an impact here.