[m.tarenskeen]

I also want to learn The Art Of Ctrlr Panel Creation. I guess the best way is to just start and see what problems I have to solve to reach my goal.

For my first project I have choosen the Korg DS8 (any other Korg DS-8 or 707 owners in this forum?). And I am making some progress already 🙂

First question. I can copy/paste a modulator (slider, rotary etc) or a group including a set of controllers which is a real timesaver since I have two more or less identical groups of parameters for Oscillator 1 and 2.

But after pasting, the VST-index numbers are not automatically changed, so I have many controllers sharing the same VST-index number that I have to manually change to give them each unique numbers. Goodbye timesaver!

Is this a bug or o feature? If it is a feature I would like to see a way to automatically renumber the VST-index numbers.

[m.tarenskeen]

Learning Lua is not the main problem and not the topic of my subject.
How to use it in Ctrlr is.

[m.tarenskeen]

Hi,

I don’t own a JX10 or a MKS70, but I have worked with them in the past.
I don’t read one important “detail” in this thread: Yes, the MKS-70 is basically a JX10 rackmodule. And both have a JX8P sound engine x 2.

But Roland made one big mistake: The JX10 SysEx implementation sucks and is useless with for example Ctrlr. The only SysEx functionality the JX10 supports is dumping the complete content of an external M64C cartridge to/from MIDI. That’s all.
Even the JX8P has a better SysEx implementation than the JX10.
Also the MKS-70 has a better SysEx implementation than the JX10.

That’s why someone created this:
http://www.vecoven.com/superjx/superjx.html

Looks interesting.

[m.tarenskeen]

I had the same problem lately. Try this:

Menu: File -> Export -> Export compressed binary + resources

[m.tarenskeen]

It seems I did not correctly export including the background image resources.
Attached version (4b) is hopefully better.

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[m.tarenskeen]

hmm. just had some time to download and try it. doesn’t look nice with the TX81z panel background png from the original.

I think I will start some panels from scratch if I have some more time to dive deeper into Ctrlr and Lua scripting.
Planned: Yamaha Dx100/27/21, Yamaha FB01, Korg 707/DS-8, Yamaha PSS480… but don’t hold your breath. 🙂

[m.tarenskeen]

Great! I had plans to do that, but you beat me!
I posted a another mod on the TX81Z panel that can be applied to you DX21 panel:
Displaying numeric values in a balloon (“bubble”). There is an option for that that can be activated in the Panel mode editor. Easy to do and very useful!

[m.tarenskeen]

for the TQ5 you could try the TX81Z panel ( btw: I just posted an improved version in another thread here). It might work, or can be made to work with the TQ5 without much effort.

It will not work with the FB01. Creating an FB01 panel is high on my TODO list since I have discovered Ctrlr!

[m.tarenskeen]

reklamchef wrote:

Atom and I have made some very minor changes since then.
My contribution is to remove the chorus feature and move the algos to where they were, and some graphical customizations (edging toward a more ‘realistic’ appearance) with apologies as well as thanks to the very excellent Limeflavour of course. I’m hoping we can see panels as works in progress.

I have attached my own little contribution to you work:
1. All the rotary knob now show a numeric value in a “bubble” when used.
2. I have replaced “CHORUS” with “ALG”. I had to use a drawing program for that. It’s a pity that the textlabels are part of the background PNG picture, instead of editable textlabel objects. Makes it more difficult to edit.

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Building your own binaries on your own system from the sources will solve many of the problems I guess. That’s always a problem with shared libraries.

It would be nice if the major Linux distributions would include Ctrlr in their official repositories (and keep it up-to-date!). I am not sure if there are any licensing issues preventing that?

[m.tarenskeen]

I am glad to have succesfully compiled Ctrlr on Fedora 21 with your help.
But I still feel it should be easier to do. I would like to see a one-does-it-all Makefile or buildscript. Now I had to manually unzip a file in one place, run one one script in another place, then another script in again another place, and then had to search in all those subdirectories where the standalone and VST plugin had gone.

And when I tried to compile on my older 32bits Linux Laptop I ran into a linking problem with some 64bits *.a libraries. I had to manually replace the files with 32bit versions. After that compilation and linking succceeded.

Another strange thing: my Ctrlr has no version number when I open the Help_.About dialog. I see “Version = .0”

[m.tarenskeen]

Thanks. Built succesfully!

Now I will have to learn how to use this thing and how to design my own panels …

[m.tarenskeen]

vectrex wrote:

the chorus effect is only present on the dx27, tx81z doesn’t have one

Not quite right. The DX27 does not have the chorus effect. It’s the DX21.

There are also some other parameters that do not have any effect on every “compatible” synth in the range: DX100 – DX27 – DX21 – DX11 – TX81z – WT11 – YS100 – YS200 – TQ5 – B200 – DS55 – V50

These Yamaha synths all are sysex “compatible” but not “identical”.
I know what I am talking about. I have 25 years of experience with these synths:
http://yseditor.martintarenskeen.nl

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