PI Engineering X-Keys

this happens when on an external keyboard (a regular qwerty one, not the x-keys) the scroll lock button is pressed. usually to press the Macro button, you use Ctrl-4, but when scroll lock is pressed, the console lets you spell commands and in this case the Ctrl key is ignored. that's why you end up with a plain 4, followed by the macro number, hence 4701.

so, plug an external keyboard, press Scroll Lock, unplug and then try the xkeys again.

NB: the scroll lock button on the facepanel of your console is not the same as the one on the external keyboard.

ueli

this happens when on an external keyboard (a regular qwerty one, not the x-keys) the scroll lock button is pressed. usually to press the Macro button, you use Ctrl-4, but when scroll lock is pressed, the console lets you spell commands and in this case the Ctrl key is ignored. that's why you end up with a plain 4, followed by the macro number, hence 4701.

so, plug an external keyboard, press Scroll Lock, unplug and then try the xkeys again.

NB: the scroll lock button on the facepanel of your console is not the same as the one on the external keyboard.

ueli

Brilliant, this worked perfectly. Thanks so much

Another question... I've seen X-keys 16-button sticks set up in a way that buttons 2-16 act as the first set of Marcos and the first buttons acts as a sort of shift, enabling the last 15 buttons to act as a new set of macros... Basically doubling the use of the keys. Any thoughts on how to program this. Does it make sense?

isn't this a function of MacroWorks to assign a Shift-function to one of the buttons?

Yes, you have to assign one of the keys as a 'layer shift' button using the Macroworks program.  They change how it looks/works every time they update the software, but it should be as easy as programming the keys was.

-Jason