Support for MK1 please? Time schedule? What is required? Can i help?

Where can i find loopbe1 similar to macosx?
there is only a windows version on official website.

When I oct up or down on the S49 the light guide doesn't shift up and down.

I'm not sure why this is the case, but when I use my kontrol mk II 88 keyboard with the app, it lights up a key a few notes to the left of the actual key I'm supposed to hit in synthesia. I've tried it several times and have had the same issue repeat itself every time.

Hi,

I'm using Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2 keyboard, OS is Windows 10 Pro 21H1 (64-bit), Synthesia v10.7 (full version, all unlockedl), LoopBe1 v1.6, and your lastest SynthesiaKontrol v1.3.

When I run SynthesiaKontrol, choice 1 (for S1 MK2), I see lights animations so assuming this keyboard is correctly recognized.

But while playing integrated song, related note(s) stay illuminated, even on MIDI Note Off event(s). It's problematic for consecutive identical notes, because by staying on, it's confusing about longer duration note...
Doesn't occur when I'm listing a song without playing, however.

When I press a note, its light turns off (even for a long-duration note).

Also, when I've finish to play the song, some lights may remain turned on, not always (white for left hand and/or green for right), this beaviour occurs randomly.

Any advice?

Thanks in advance.

Dominique.

Feature Request

It might be useful to pre-empt the notes so that you can play along and prepare your fingers for the next notes.

If a future note starts dim and gets brighter as it comes nearer it could work like Guitar Hero where you can "see ahead down the road".

Also maybe, different colour lights for each finger (assuming Synthesia has finger notation).

Hello, I don't know if I do something wrong, but I have some difficulties to make my MK1 S49 Working with the light guide.. I do not see the S49 between the choice when I launch SynthesiaKontrol.exe :(

I am on windows 10, with LoopBe1 installed

I'm getting this errors when running SynthesiaKontrol under Windows 10 (Loop be installed and configured in Synthesia 10.4)

D:\SynthesiaKontrol>SynthesiaKontrol.exe
Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts_startup_.py", line 14, in run
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 26, in run
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 98, in
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 19, in init
File "hid.pyx", line 66, in hid.device.open
OSError: open failed

D:\SynthesiaKontrol>

Iam planning to update my trusty Mk1 Keyboard with the MK3 one.

Iam hoping to get Mk3 support for SynthesiaKontrol aswell.

Thanks for your effort!!!

Hello,

I'm following the steps and this is as far as i can go.

Mansfields-MacBook-Pro:~ Mansfield$ pip install hidapi
-bash: pip: command not found

Any suggestions to finding a solution?

Thanks
Nathan

I am trying to get this working on macOS, and get this message.
Any suggestions for a solution?

python3 SynthesiaKontrol.py

Select your keyboard (1,2,3,...):
  1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2
  2-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2
  3-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK2
  4-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK1
  5-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK1
  6-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK1
  7-Komplete Kontrol S25 MK1
3
Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Opening Keyboard device...
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 224, in <module>
    connected = init()
  File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 24, in init
    device=hid.device()
AttributeError: module 'hid' has no attribute 'device'

C:\SynthesiaKontrol>SynthesiaKontrol
Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Opening LoopBe input port
Listening to Midi
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\__startup__.py", line 14, in run
  File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python36-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 26, in run
  File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 106, in <module>
NameError: name 'portName' is not defined

When I open SynthesiaKontrol.exe from file explorer, it just closing.

Hey there,

first of all great work 👍 This is not really an issue but I figured I could modify the code to make some custom light effects.
I'm thinking about a fire animation like this one.

I'm not so good with python but I can probably make it. I just don't get which code represents which color
for example: bufferC = [0x00] * 249 makes everything black while bufferC = [0x09] * 249 makes everything orange.

But where can I look up the values, without having to brute force the colors. Can you please help me out :)

Also maybe you have an idea for the algorithm to do this effect. I'm thinking an list of x colors like red, orange, yellow, white and randomly going up or down that list. Each key independently.

Cheers

Hello, i cannot seem to get the script working with the S88 MK2
I have synthesia set to ch1 output on LoopBe port and the script running successfully
however when i press the middle c key the light for A1 shows up,
A3 lights up F#2. etc etc none of the keys light up as they should.
I have selected S88 MK2 in the script.
Is it a bug in the script or a user error on my end?.
Running Python3 with the dependencies on Mac OSX High Sierra

C:\Users\Hackintosh X99\Documents\SynthesiaKontrol.v1.1\SynthesiaKontrol.v1.1>SynthesiaKontrol.exe
Select your keyboard (*1,2,3,4):
1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2
2-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2
3-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK1
4-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK1
3
Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Opening Keyboard device...
Turn off lights for all notes
Connected to Komplete Kontrol!
Turn off lights for all notes
Opening LoopBe input port
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts_startup_.py", line 14, in run
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\Console.py", line 26, in run
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 206, in
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mido\backends\backend.py", line 169, in get_input_names
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mido\backends\backend.py", line 162, in get_devices
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mido\backends\backend.py", line 42, in module
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mido\backends\backend.py", line 58, in load
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\importlib_init.py", line 127, in import_module
File "", line 1006, in _gcd_import
File "", line 983, in _find_and_load
File "", line 967, in _find_and_load_unlocked
File "", line 677, in _load_unlocked
File "", line 728, in exec_module
File "", line 219, in call_with_frames_removed
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\mido\backends\rtmidi.py", line 8, in
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python37-32\lib\site-packages\rtmidi_init.py", line 4, in
ImportError: DLL load failed: No se puede encontrar el módulo especificado.

How does one get get my keyboard to display the correct hand colour matching synthesia. seems to stay green and blue.

I have it working, kinda, but I have to have Komplete Kontrol open, disable light guide in preferences. Also sometimes the lights do not light up... Well actually alot of the time. Only some notes decide to light up when I am playing a song in synthesia. I'm on a Mac OS MOjave. Any suggestions? It's not very usable as is.

OS: MacOS Mojave 10.14.4
HARDWARE: Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2

Following error:

MacBook-Pro:SynthesiaKontrol danny$ sudo python SynthesiaKontrol.py
Select your keyboard (1,2,3,...):
1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2
2-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2
3-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK2
4-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK1
5-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK1
6-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK1
7-Komplete Kontrol S25 MK1

( I press "1" for 1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2 )----> resulting with:

Sorry, keyboard not supported yet!

Any Ideas???

Thanks for this script! I was super happy to find this!

But I get the error, that the S88 MK2 (and MK1) is not yet supported. Not sure, whether this is a bug or just a feature which is yet missing? Could you clarify?

How does one get get my keyboard to display the correct hand colour matching synthesia. seems to stay green and blue.

First of all, thank you so much for all the hard work! I am having an issue with the S88 MK2, where the lights are not working with synthesia. When I run the SynthesiaKontrol it does the full spectrum light show on the keyboard, however I can not get it to work when using Synthesia. Attached are photos, I am on Windows 10. I look forward to using this set up with my piano students!

Hello, i have done the instructions but there is no light on my KOMPLETE KONTROL S49 MK1, I am on windows, can you please help me? thank you

Trying to get this running, and getting:

C:\Users\temp\Downloads\SynthesiaKontrol.v1.4>python3 --version
Python 3.12.4

C:\Users\temp\Downloads\SynthesiaKontrol.v1.4>SynthesiaKontrol.exe
Select your keyboard (1, 2, 3, ...) and press 'Enter':
1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2
2-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2
3-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK2
4-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK1
5-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK1
6-Komplete Kontrol S49 MK1
7-Komplete Kontrol S25 MK1
2
Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Opening Keyboard device...
Error: open failed
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 26, in init
File "hid.pyx", line 142, in hid.device.open
OSError: open failed

During handling of the above exception, another exception occurred:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts_startup_.py", line 130, in run
File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\console.py", line 16, in run
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 232, in
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 29, in init
NameError: name 'quit' is not defined

C:\Users\temp\Downloads\SynthesiaKontrol.v1.4>

looks like it's referencing files under jacqu username?

Unfortunately this was not working with my KK S61 MK1, on Windows. The S61 was found and the CoolDemoSweep function worked. But after that, the lowest C key would remain dimly lit, and no other keys would light in response to the MIDI events coming from Synthesia. The MIDI events were being written to the command window.

Edit:
After studying the code more and thinking it over, I have a better grasp on the issue.

The main issue is local instances of bufferC being created that hide the global instance. This occurs in both notes_off() and CoolDemoSweep(). Instead of setting the elements of bufferC to 0x00, the code makes an assignment, similar to:
bufferC = [0x00] * NB_KEYS
This assignment creates a local instance of bufferC, it does not update the global instance defined in init().

This causes an issue for my S61 MK1 keyboard because the buffer is too long by one byte. This is caused by the global instance and the local instance in notes_off() being 249 bytes, and being written to the device using:
device.write([0x82] + bufferC)

An additional problem is the color used for the thumb keys. The MK1 ignores the most significant bit of the RGB byte values. This makes 0x80 equivalent to 0x00, and causes any MIDI event using a thumb channel to not light the key.

I have a version that fixes these issues, and I'm working on a fix for a small issue in CoolDemoSweep(). (Caused by calculating the index into bufferC using x*3-2 when the loop index equals 0.) If you'd like, I will update the code so you can test it. I'm new to GitHub, so I'm not sure of the best way to do this.

MacOS does not have the msvcrt:

$ python3 SynthesiaKontrol.py
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 10, in
from msvcrt import getch
ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'msvcrt'

I try to fix it changing the "from msvcrt import getch" from SynthesiaKontrol.py to only "import getch"

Hi,

I get the following error, not matter which keyboard I select:
Select your keyboard (*1,2,3,4):
1-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK2
2-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK2
3-Komplete Kontrol S61 MK1
4-Komplete Kontrol S88 MK1
4
Sorry, keyboard not supported yet!

I have a s61mk1, it's in midi mode and everything else is like it hsould be according to your steps so I'm wondering why it doesn't work?

I have a KK S88 MK2. And after following the instructions Carefully. It sill won't work

I dont have KK open

When i louch synthesia and your program and select my piano, the lights get turned off. Than when i start a song (any song) the lights dont work.
I read the last persons Issue and i mirrored his settings.

What do i need to do?

Just followed installation steps with an 88MK2 and this happens. If I enable Synthesia's metronome this happens more often, so I'm wondering if it's listening to MIDI input it didn't intend to?

https://imgur.com/a/lExyds4

Logs don't show any lead:

I might take a look at this soon

Hi,

I have installed loopbe1 and done the required setup in Synthesia, but no light guide on my KK mk1.
SynthesiaKontrol is running and receiving notes on off message.
What am I missing ?

Thanks for any help.

Dear Olivier,

I am currently adding midi functionality to my analog upright piano (from 1905) by adding a custom led strip for output and otpical distance sensors under the keys for input. As always, I found about your code and the necessary information regarding Synthesia mid-way through the project as I ran into the same issue you had, when notes/lights were turned off too quickly. In the forum post and in the changelog, you mention that you solved the problem, but I can't seem to find out how :)
My arduino code looks very similar. First, I light up keys based on the channel were the note on message arrived (with the finger based channel mode in synthesia), then I turn them off when receiving the note off message. However, they turn off after a fraction of a second, regardless of their actual duration.

Any hint, what I'm doing wrong? Or what you did to solve that? I could post the code this evening, I don't have access to my laptop at the moment.

Thank you!
Max

Running SynthesiaKontrol.v1.4 + LoopBe1 v1.6 + Windows 11.

LoopBe detection fails:

Connecting to Komplete Kontrol Keyboard
Opening Keyboard device...
Turn off lights for all notes
Connected to Komplete Kontrol!
Turn off lights for all notes
Opening LoopBe input port
Error: can't find 'LoopBe' midi port. Please install LoopBe1 from http://www.nerds.de/en/download.html (Windows) or name your IAC midi device 'LoopBe' (on Mac).
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\__startup__.py", line 130, in run
  File "C:\Users\jacqu\AppData\Local\Programs\Python\Python310\Lib\site-packages\cx_Freeze\initscripts\console.py", line 16, in run
  File "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 245, in <module>
NameError: name 'exit' is not defined

Does not seem to find any ports as there is no "Found MIDI port" outputs. LoopBe1 is visible in both Device Manager and Synthesia settings. "Run as administrator" does not help either.

What to check? Should SynthesiaKontrol work on Windows 11?

Additionally, "exit(1)" in "SynthesiaKontrol.py", line 245 fails with the traceback seen above.

Hi Jacques!

Do you think that it would be possible to make it work for the Novation SL MK III ?
I'd be willing to help if you think that porting the script is feasible ?

Eric