Need some help to add patch load/save for the Triode panel

[arcangeli]

Hi all,

I’ve already made a fully functional panel for my Meeblip Triode bass synth here: Triode panel.

This synth has not any patch load/save function. I want to make this with Ctrlr but it’s hard to find how to do that.
I’ve got some Lua knowledge (i’m a user of the awesome WM for Linux).

There’s no sysex on the synth. Only CC. There’s no MIDI out on it, only IN. All this load/save function need to be on the Ctrlr side and saved on the computer (as csv file for exemple).

For saving, i think that i need to read all Modulator value and add them in an array. For loading (with upload to the synth), i think taht i need to read the array and send the value to the modulator AND the synth one by one.
Loading and saving the array to a csv file may be more simpler to do 😉

I would be very grateful if anyone could help me. At least for the first modulator…

• This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by arcangeli.

[human fly]

it’s been a while since i did anything with Ctrlr, but i’m going to
suggest you look at the last RX7 panel version. i was doing something
to collect all modulator values into a table, and restore them.

in that case, each drum pad had its parameter values, but i was only
using one set of modulators for all (240…) pads.

so you could think of each pad table as a preset, that i was sending
onto the modulators.

you might find it interesting to look at anyway. i hope it’s not too
much of a mess to follow, lots of different methods. but the essential
ones you would be looking for are the ones compiling the tables, and
retrieving the table values. you will see it also has a kind of ‘autowrite’
going on each time a modulator changes values, so tables are updating
constantly. could be what you need if you don’t have presets.

don’t have it set up on this machine atm but i may be able to remember
what i was doing …

[dnaldoog]

There’s a DEMO panel by Atom named ‘Files’ https://github.com/RomanKubiak/Panels/tree/master/DEMO in which he shows how to save a file as binary.

If you create a lookup lua table with names of your Modulators, you could then loop through each modulator and get its value. Untested code follows:

t={}
lookupTable={{"volume",0x07},{"pan",0x0A},{"Balance",0x09}}
for _,v in iPairs(lookupTable) do
table.insert(t,panel:getModulatorByName(v[1]):getModulatorValue())
end

Then you would convert temp table t to a MemoryBlock
m=MemoryBlock.fromLuaTable(t)
and save that to a binary file.

---

The reverse would be to load that file and convert to lua table and write back to each modulator:

 local  f = utils.openFileWindow("Open file", File.getSpecialLocation(File.userDesktopDirectory), "*.bin", true)
fileRead 	= File(f)
            tbin={}
            local buf	= MemoryBlock()
            fileRead:loadFileAsData(buf)
            buf:toLuaTable (tbin)
            for i,v in pairs(lookupTable) do
panel:getModulatorByName(v[1]):getComponent():setValue(tbin,true))
--Set to false if you don't want the value sent
end

Each modulator would have a cc code setting on the panel, so the modulator sends individual cc messages. If you wanted to send all these values back to the unit at once then from lua you could do something like something like: (again untested)

myChannel=panel:getProperty("panelMidiOutputChannelDevice")
add=0xb0+(myChannel-1)
for i,v in ipairs(lookupTable) do
cn=v[2] -- cc number
cv=tbin
    m = CtrlrMidiMessage({add, cn, cv}) 
	-- os.execute(sleep(100)
    panel:sendMidiMessageNow(m)
	end

or values from the binary file

myChannel=panel:getProperty("panelMidiOutputChannelDevice")
add=0xb0+(myChannel-1)
for i,v in ipairs(lookupTable) do
cn=v[2] -- cc number
cv=tbin
    m = CtrlrMidiMessage({add, cn, cv}) 
	-- os.execute(sleep(100)
    panel:sendMidiMessageNow(m)
	end

This loop could be run inside a timer if it transfers too fast. or e.g. os.execute(sleep(400))

• This reply was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by dnaldoog.

[arcangeli]

Thanks 🙂
I’ll try to do the lua Table without saving next week.
Saving as binary file seem to be more simpler than converting to csv.

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