This page provides help and guidance to setup and use the Loupedeck (Live) with Rebelle 5.

I have now added my latest one for Rebelle 6 as well:

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Step 1 – Download and Extract the Profile

Rebelle 5:

• Basement Picasso – Rebelle 5 – Loupedeck profile (free)

The .zip file above contains a single profile. Extract the zip file to get the file “Rebelle-5-BasementPicasso.lp4”

Rebelle 6:

• Basement Picasso – Rebelle 6 – Loupedeck profile (free)

The .zip file above contains a single profile. Extract the zip file to get the file “rebelle-6-BasementPicasso.lp4”

Step 2 – Import the profile into Loupedeck

On the system profile dropdown, select “Import profile”

Browse to the file that you extracted in step (1)

Step 3 – Configure Rebelle Short-cuts

Due to a couple of conflicts on my system, I had to change a few of the default key configurations in Rebelle. In Rebelle 5 key configuration, make sure that your keys are set up as follows:

Select Edit -> Keyboard Shortcuts (or press Alt + Shift + K to open it directly)

Selects the correct key section, for example “Reset Brush Changes” is under Tools

Make sure that the assigned key is as shown in the table above. If it prompts you that the combination is in use, confirm Ok to replace the existing use of that combination.

Further Customisation of Loupedeck

Hopefully, the guide above will get you up and running. This section explains how to add any specific custom controls that you might want to use. The controls that I have created in Loupedeck are macro functions for key presses and custom adjustments for knob controls. They are grouped into two folders. Rebelle Buttons are the visual keys, Rebelle Knob Controls are the rotary functions.

The macro buttons appear visually on the loupedeck. In the example on the right, the Blend function, when pressed, passes the key press “3” to Rebelle (i.e. as if the user had pressed “3” on the keyboard. The icon is the visual shown on the loupedeck key. Without an icon, the key will just show text

Rotary Keys, for example the Zoom function are slightly more complicated as they need to effectively send different key presses depending on whether you rotate clockwise or counter-clockwise. The top adjustment action is the rotate counter-clockwise, so in this case it sends Shift + Ctrl + O (for Zoom Out).

The icon (if used) will show next to the knob, otherwise the Name is used as text.

Continuing the review of slightly older work, this was a digital painting done, starting from life to sketch out various ideas, then using a reference photo to work on digitally

This was the output from the set of thumbnail sketches from life – just looking at various composition options. Like the last option of the drawing sort of breaking out of it’s border

Tried to go with that theme and select an area to focus on

Stage 1 with a lot of the shapes roughed in. Was trying to use a lot of text and texture brushes to keep small level detail interesting

After a bit more refinement with some wash brushes to darken and bring up the contrast

Towards the end, with some texture being vrought in

Overall, the break-out effect of the final piece isn’t quite as subtle as the original drawing and the harder borders of the painted image work against the looseness that the drawing had, but overall, lots of nice elements in this.