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[quote:t2yl4rre]I just found this Feature request: 3409827
which basically states the same: having a button deactivating some elements. This is IMHO very common on Synths (switching on a filter, EG, Osc,…) so maybe this particular simple function could be integrated without LUA?[/quote:t2yl4rre]This was posted by me, but may be I wasn’t too clear. What I suggested was to have an option for modulators to be active or inactive, in the same way they can be visible/invisible, not to activate other modulators as this can be easily done in LUA.
On a side note, there is something strange with uiXYSurfaces and uiCombos.
· I have an uiXYSurface and two uiCombos associated with the uiXYSurface that are displaying the modulator name list . When I move the dot in the uiXYSurface, instead of modulating the element I choose in the uiCombos it modulates the list of elements of the uiCombos.
· If I set to transparent the dot of the uiXYSurface, it still displays two circles, one red and another yellow.
· The problem with uiCombos when you enter edit mode. They are deactivated and display "no selection", and when you leave edit mode they don’t get the value they had before. I have many instances where the value/visibility of a modulator/tab is dependent to the value displayed in a uiCombo, so I get a lot of LUA error messages until I restore the value of all uiCombos.
The point for enabling LUA is that the code to display the envelope run in LUA
It seems you were using the stable version. You need to use the latest Nightly.
Here works fine with the latest build.
Check in Global Preferences of Ctrlr if you have LUA enabled, it must be enabled.
Hi Atom. I’ve encountered some problems with this revision.
If I copy and paste a modulator, it is pasted with a different layer id than the layer I have, so the modulator isn’t visible. It’s there because you can select it from the modulators list, but it’s in a "ghost" layer not present in the panel.
The comboBoxes display a blueish frame when you click on it’s arrow that wasn’t present before (at least I never noticed it) and it’s not editable from the modulator parameter list. And many times (but not always) the items selected in all comboBoxes are not remembered when I save the panel and reopen it, displaying "no selection"
On the other hand, there is a notable improvement in performance, specially when you move a modulator in edit mode. And all the problems when you selected a comboBox in edit mode has been solved.
Well, a quick deleting of half the elements did the trick, all modulators still present can be automated now.
No, CCs and sysex. Right now none of the modulators can be automated from Ableton.
I’ll try to delete half the modulators to left under 255 to see if there is a problem with the limit.
Then you need to delete the preferences, but I’m on a pc and can’t help you to locate it in a Mac.
It could be fantastic if fonts were embedded, but I understand the problems it could generate.
Here are the fonts.
I read it
. Did you check if the sysex message ends with f7 or F7? In old versions this was a bug that drove me crazy for a time; when the sysex formula ends with f7 it doesn’t send the message type selected until you reselect the message type.Recently I got some weird behaviour with all my cc modulators. All of them started to send, if I remember correctly, F7 00 00. After a hard time trying to find the reason I discovered that I was selecting 0 as midi output channel.
By the way, the panel looks fantastic.
I agree with you, the main use of Ctrlr is as a vst in a sequencer. But this level of programmable control of any synth makes my imagination fly far away, specially for live situations.
I’ve been working in a setup that could allow me to use all the synths in a similar way as a keyboard arranger. I use Ableton for midi routing, creating some devices in MaxforLive, and almost all I want to do can be done, but Ableton lacks sysex!! Ctrlr is an ideal host to make a environment that could control all the midi gear from one place at the touch of a button, where I could save, load and edit any setup, and with a custom interface, because yes, I’m a fanatic of interfaces.
Such control would need inter panel communication to allow certain modularity, but as I said it’s not a must. I’m really happy with what Ctrlr does right now.
I have uploaded a new update of the panel.
· Now you can open one panel to control each of the four parts of the Snow, and make dump requests on each part.
· There are a few improvements in the LCD. It shows on the upper line the name of the patch loaded from a bank of the Snow to the left; icons for note in, for cc in with number of incoming cc and sysex in to the right; and all modulators displays the internal value on the left and the midi value on the rigth of the second line.
· Added some config parameters (led intensity, tuning, enable/disable all delays, reverbs, arps and eqs)
· Added inputs parameters (Boost, Thru, Sensitivity, Characteristic)
· Added the name of the presets in the Rom Banks.
I have not tested the panel in a sequencer yet, all has been done in standalone mode, this will be the next thing to do.
The panel uses some fonts that are not included. They come from a Yamaha Motif Xs Editor I have installed and it’s free to download. I don’t know if I can upload here a file with the fonts, as I don’t know if they are free. (Atom???
)Yes, in a sequencer it’s not necessary. I was thinking of standalone mode in a panel that could open/close/call other panels.
Imagine a panel that handle multis/combis of a synth. You have each part (normally 16) on screen with the parameters of each multi part and deal with them. Now imagine you click on any part, and automatically Ctrlr opens the panel to edit this part. Right now I have to open a panel to edit the multi, a panel to edit each part, configure inputs and outputs, or have 16 panels stored and configured to handle each part, or make a mega panel containing all of this. A bit confuse for a user not involved in creating panels.
The idea is to have to work with only one panel, and from this panel manage all aspects of the synth, (parts, multis, songs, config paramters, switch from patch/voice/program to multi/song/combi, etc).
Ok, fantastic.
About data crossing between panels, it could be really interesting, but right now it’s a feature I don’t need. The little problem with the dump request was really easy to solve. Thx.
Thx for the reply.
What about the second question? Can I access global variables k0… thru Lua?
There was a major change from v4 to v5. Now Ctrlr has a panel maker, you don’t need to assemble anything. If you want a controller for your unit, you have to do it yourself or wait till other user do it.
All you need to know is on this forum.
