build 385

[atom]

Some bug fixes and new components

– custom Slider and Button, you can supply knobman generated stiched images and create nice looking sliders and buttons
– onscreen qwerty keyboard, it sends out ascii code values for pressed keys (no need to double click)
– some interface fixes
– save button fixed and working
– some other stuff i don’t remember
– i also have an idea on how to do a "Player" for panels so i need some feedback if that’s needed, it will be a customized Ctrlr copy that holds exactly one panel
there will be no binary difference just a XML file with the same name as the Ctrlr that will make the loaded Ctrlr look different (less menus, no edit mode, all parameters will be loaded and named with no problem)

i’m also working on more bug fixes that might not be in this build but the will be there soon.

[crayolon]

A clean, menu-free, uneditable, inviolable, ‘Player’ would be great for day to day usage of Ctrlr panels which are out of the development process and are in general use. Ideally, there would be some generic user options exposed – probably just MIDI I/O device, channel, bank and patch selections. Right now, I’m not too happy about having to switch to ‘Edit’ mode to set those options, since it’s very easy to accidentally fuck up the layout with an errant mouseclick.

In Ctrlr4, every time I loaded a Ctrlr VSTi, I had to click in the main body to focus (otherwise the file menu options were all greyed out), then go to Options to set all my I/O. Will we be able to set persistent default settings in Ctrlr5 to save lots of time?

[netchose]

[quote:pfmkwrwp]since it’s very easy to accidentally fuck up the layout with an errant mouseclick.[/quote:pfmkwrwp] it’s is for this reason that i’ve requested a lock/unlock button

-the thing i’m waiting now :

– something to synchronise synth state and ctrlr panels state and eventually manage sysex dump.

thanks

[atom]

well the program manager is something i’m going to do, now i need to set my priorities, that’s all, there is the devicedb and other stuff

[JKervinen]

sounds great! i’m totally up for those additions and will be providing feedback.

how this will work when you have loads of hardware like me; using multiple ctrlrs for several synths?

cheers,
– j

[atom]

well i think this will be optional, either use the player or use the normal Ctrlr. I may be able to make the Ctrlr instances share MIDI devices so that they won’t affect each other.

[Tronic]

Great job here ” title=”Smile” />
There may in future be able to store your own presets?
Or is it already possible?
I tried to add a bank or a program, but does not seem possible to do so, it reads only those already present in any synth?

[atom]

yes it will be just not at the moment.

[aksoni]

Nice updates ” title=”Razz” />

"atom":1729q641 wrote:

– custom Slider and Button, you can supply knobman generated stiched images and create nice looking sliders and buttons[/quote:1729q641]
Ones with OSX can open Knobman with Wine:
http://winebottler.kronenberg.org/
Little unstable (had maybe 1-2 freezes in hour) so remember to save your knobs often.

Made some knob experiments, so..
– There might be slight offset changing images, with 31 image knob I get center image with values 66-69 (0-127), should be something like 62-65 to display panning correctly?
– Only square shaped images work? Tried to do slider-knobs, but random part of images were displayed.
– uiFixedImageSlider

[atom]

no in changelog it says rotary only, i suggest using 127 frames per knob, it scales nicely.

[Wren]

Nice, I’ll get around to using this week.

Has this been implemented at all, so you can have unique Midi messages corresponding for each UiCombo name?

http://www.ctrlr.org/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=512

[atom]

aaa no, my bad i forgot, i’ll do that asap, try to post feature requests in the tracker this way i won’t loose them

[aksoni]

Some improvements / additions:
– Option for Midi-In to update parameter values without sending Midi-Out. Blofeld does not like receiving same values after sending (appearing parameter values on Blofeld screen are flickering).

– Sysex device selector, not sure if it’s already possible with globar variables (how these are used?). I mean adding "Device ID variable" in Sysex formula to change Device ID for on every knob with one uiCombo/Slider/Button.

– Value modifier. Which will add/decrease specified value for parameter, or some other solution to make Blofeld envelope trigger mode to work with 2 uiCombo’s (also Evolver LFO key sync)

On Blofeld sysex data for envelope mode looks like [f0 3e 13 00 20 00 01 44 00 f7]. Value before [f7] is controller with 7-bit LSB (00-04) for envelope modes, trigger mode will add 20 (in hex, so 32?) to same controller value so envelope modes with single trigger are 20-24.

– Value knob. Knob without the knob, draggable from number value

– Copy & Paste of SysEx formula would speed up things alot, especially if it would be in the format that MIDI Monitor shows.

[attachment=0:5z4n0486]ShinyKnobs.png[/attachment:5z4n0486]
Here’s how the Blofeld editor looks at the moment with new uiImageSliders ” title=”Smile” />

edit: oh and let me know if there is some tasks I can help with. Without job & money atm so lots of free time, coffee & smokes.

[atom]

answering in sequence
– can be done, i’ll cook something up
– it’s possible in the SysEx editor k0-kf are global variables, you can assign a global variable to any knob/component, and the value of that component is the value of the global variable
– i think value modifiers are there at least the LSB MSB lsb msb and checksum, right click on any byte in the sysex editor, they’re all there (unless you want something more, that you need to touch LUA)
– i don’t understand, you can always do an ImageSlider and the image would be empty or something, please explain a bit more
– yes that will help and i’ll add that asap

[aksoni]

"atom":nk4898vq wrote:

– it’s possible in the SysEx editor k0-kf are global variables, you can assign a global variable to any knob/component, and the value of that component is the value of the global variable[/quote:nk4898vq]
So I’ll add [k0] on every knob Sysex formula, could you tell bit more specific how can I make slider to control that variable?

"atom":nk4898vq wrote:

– i don’t understand, you can always do an ImageSlider and the image would be empty or something, please explain a bit more[/quote:nk4898vq]
For example: Velocity & Keytrack on that blofeld template would show just the value. You can’t drag with mouse from the value at the moment. Making ImageSlider with pictures of numeric values could work, just lots of work & not easy to change something like color.

+ValueOnLeft / ValueOnRight do not work nice atm, could maybe have ValueOnCenter too.

[atom]

global variables are in the Modulator section of each component "Modulator attached to global variable" any value larger then -1 sets this component to control this global variable.

[atom]

the value placement is the default behavior JUCE has, i really didn’t want to change anything cause that will cause other problems. i’ll try to add a valueOncenter and make the value respond to mouse movement. this will achieve the same goal.

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