Meeblip Geode and Arturia Beatstep Pro weirdness

so today i discovered that the Beatstep Pro (along with other DAW controllers) spit out midi CC when pressing the transport buttons

default settings are

Stop - CC 54

Rec - CC 50

Play - CC 51

all well and good, except the Meeblip Geode uses these

CC 50    Oscillator Detune

CC 51    Filter Cutoff

CC 54    LFO Depth

so, you just need to go into the beatstep utility and change the CC #

symptoms - filter on the synth was changing to value 0 (play button), holding stop would cause the LFO Depth to max *whilst holding*

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controller 54

controller 50

controller 51

keyfax gmedia phatboy midi controller

the device is labelled as manufacture by either keyfax or g.media.

well out of production, the specs are still available on the original site and also backed up on the wayback machine.

specs

http://keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatspecs.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20210210210819/http://www.keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatspecs.html

tips

http://keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatips.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20200220204210/http://www.keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatips.html

compatibility

http://keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatcompat.html

https://web.archive.org/web/20210211051522/http://www.keyfax.com/keyfax/phatboy/phatcompat.html

pictures of v1

https://www.matrixsynth.com/2015/12/keyfax-phat-boy-midi-hardware.html?spref=pi

alesis multimix 16 firewire on Sierra and above?

the drivers do not install on more recent macOS versions.

you can disable a particular security setting to allow installation, then the device works correct!

in terminal

csrutil enable --without kext

and reboot

to re-enable

crsutil clear

._.

tips were taken from

https://fr.audiofanzine.com/console-fw-usb-mlan/alesis/MultiMix-16-FireWire/forums/t.604946,multimix-16-firewire-support-for-el-capitan,post.8694566.html

https://www.shoutpedia.com/enable-disable-system-integrity-protection-rootless-mac-os/