Hi

I'm not familiar with X-Keys devices but I guess they work like other midi controlers.
It's not possible to have 2 different activators for a single button. The first one will always take precedence over the second one. You can verify this by positioning an activator for PGM before the one for PVW. The first one in the activators list is used.

Guillaume

OK, good to know, thanks. I should be able to replicate the behavior I want with a fairly simple Max/MSP patch. I'll probably set it up to filter MIDI messages to assign all the Blue LEDs to one channel, and the Red LEDs to another, and the patch will handle setting each button to Red/Blue/Purple.

-kruvek

Ugh... So I finally managed to bring the XK-24 home, and try to use it with Max. Unfortunately, the XK-24 is NOT a MIDI device. Of all the amazing things you can do with an X-Keys device, outputting MIDI is not one of them.

Instead, vMix just displays X-Keys inputs as MIDI, despite the fact that they're just polling the HID values right off of the device. So, an X-Key's inability to assign more than one activator to a button LED is entirely within vMix's ballpark, since they're doing all the fancy HID polling, and making it just look like a MIDI device.

However, you can change the USB endpoints of an X-Keys device (using MacroWorks 3.1) so that it installs as an HID Joystick device in Windows. I'm able to select the XK-24 in Max as a Joystick device, but I'm not receiving any data from it. Additionally, in the Window's Game Controller settings, none of the 46 joystick buttons that the XK-24 indicates it has light up when I press them. I'll have to keep fiddling with it.

Ironically, when my XK-24 is set to a Joystick endpoint, it no longer communicates to vMix as an X-Keys device, and none of my shortcuts or activators work.

I'm also heading over to the Feature Requests forum to request that vMix add the ability to assign Activators to individual LEDs on X-Keys devices.

Here are my findings for manually controlling my XK-24 in vMix:

I used MacroWorks 3.1 to set the USB endpoint of my XK-24 to PID 1027, which enables Joystick button macros.
I then setup each button in MacroWorks to trigger a Game Device button macro. Make sure you set up each key to trigger both the button on, and button off events for each Game Device button.
In vMix, I set my shortcuts the same way as before, using the "Find" feature and pressing a key on the X-Keys. Note that it now displays the device as a Jostick, not an X-Keys device.

To set the Activators, use the table below to set the "Note" values for each button. The first value is the note address for the Blue LED, and the second is for the Red LED. Note that the "Find" feature for activators will not find the correct button LED address, you must enter it manually.



The addresses for Rows 7 and 8 did not activate LEDs, it seems reasonable to assume that they may be used in larger X-Keys controllers. After Note Address 63, it repeats the entire sequence of button LEDs all over again. So it's possible that you may be able to use the higher set of addresses for additional Activators per LED (Purple status indicators, for example). I still have to test that.

At this point I've pretty much gotten my XK-24 to react in the way that I originally wanted in my OP. However I'm having some issues with activators not triggering on Overlays. I'll see about recording a video stepping through this process.

Indeed, that would be useful. And thanks for posting that, now I know not to bother trying to do that. However, the activator I was referring to was just the generic "Overlay1 -> Active" activator, which I had working on my XK-24 previously, but have not gotten it to work on the modified XK-24.