hello all. first post / m185 ideas and or feature suggestions
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hey hey all. names chris. first post. hello :)i have been having a helluvah time using this program running from my laptop into my moog little phatty. this is my primary use for this software as of now. my idea(s) are mostly involving midi, and ways to use this software live.1. being able to maybe like run a the midi out of my moog into my laptop into m185, and using that to pick what notes each step is playing. i also have a novation remote 25 that i use strictly as a controller. it has like 8 buttons. my dream idea would be being able to have 8 buttons, and being able to click on one, and then on my moog to pick the note for that step. live, i could jam out on this thing and have a blast. less mouse is soo much better in my book if that makes sense.crap. gotta run. ill post more later.
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Hi Chris, welcome. MIDI control is definitely coming in the next version (and which is coming soon!). It will be implemented not quite how you have described though. Each controllable UI element will be controlled by a continuous controller (CC) message. You can set these up either using MIDI learn, or by manually defining a CC controller for a particular UI element. So you won't be able to play a note and have it work, but you will certainly be able to use your Novation to control the notes.Dan Nigrin
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that method would work just fine i think.would i for instance possibly be able to play a note on my midi controller and have it pick that up? thats not a cc message is it?
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No, that's not a CC message. What you're asking for is not impossible for me to do, it's just not how I implemented it in this next version. I'll keep it on the list for the future though...Dan Nigrin
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awesome.do you see why i bring it up though? if i could do that, and not have to touch my damn laptop, i could jam out for hours.if you cant tell, id run my laptop closed if i could :)
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Yup, I understand what you want to do, it's a good idea!Dan Nigrin
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how hard do you think that would be to implement?another idea would be to make the window that opens and shows the small keyboard that you pick your notes on larger.
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I have to see whether I can make it such that both a CC and note can control the same parameter (in this case, the selected note), as I already have the code in the next version of the app to control by CC. Also, I have to figure out a way to allow you to select a particular stage to edit (this would be done with a CC), and then have a way to indicate that graphically on screen.I'll take a look as soon as I have some time. Lot of work at work at the moment! :-(Dan Nigrin
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Made a lot of progress on this today - barring some unforeseen problem, I think I can say that the ability to control notes with either/both CC and MIDI notes will be in the next version...Dan Nigrin
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awesome...you rock btw.
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A couple of screenshots to illustrate how it will work. You obviously can see the MIDI learn and CC stuff, which will be new in this version.But you can also see a new little MIDI plug icon in each Stage section in first screenshot. Only one of those can be activated at any time (either by clicking, or by MIDI CC message). This indicates which Stage will respond to the MIDI note info. The second screenshot shows the Settings page, where you enable/disable this keyboard input mode, and also where you choose the MIDI input device/channel. Have to squeeze it all in a bit better! :-)
Dan Nigrin
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@JesusChris:So after testing my prototype code, I realized the way I had it implemented could be improved upon - specifically, I had originally written it so that only one stage could be activated to respond to the incoming MIDI notes at any time. But now after playing with it for a while, I realize it could be better if I allowed for multiple stages to be controlled at the same time by the incoming note. So I'm working on that now....Dan Nigrin
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that could be fun... like if you are playing arps with like 3 notes repeated or something, and you wanna change the same note in more than one step. sounds fun, and logical.like we talked about in email, i think it would be really fun if it just changed the note when you hit a key depending on what step it is on. not sure how it would work though. like what would the behavior be if the note was already playing, and you hit the key? maybe the next time around it would play the note you hit?who knows.
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Yeah, will look into your 2nd paragraph for a future version, thanks for the suggestion!Dan Nigrin
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and thank you. its crazy that i finally found a piece of software that does what ive been trying to do super easy, let alone that you are changing it regularly to do my bidding :)
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