On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Paul Davis <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Len Ovens <[email protected]> wrote: > >> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Len Ovens wrote: >> >> I do have a question though about ardour control by midi. The Mackie IF >>> says it sends control messages that are in the form num of ticks up or >>> down. This means I should be able to have a key send ticks up and another >>> ticks down, but this doesn't seem to work. >>> >> >> It does work... but only into the the mackie midi in. It only seems to >> expect 0 to 100 ticks which is probably not enough for a fader anyway. This >> is probably due to physical limitations in the encoders, getting more than >> 96 or so ticks per full turn starts to get expensive real quick (10 to 1 or >> so... which answers the why use motor faders question). Changing controls >> on the gui while monitoring the midi out was very informative. > > > Ardour has an internal scaling factor for those ticks, or did at some > point. The Mackie D8B mixer had similar issues with its scroll wheel. We > seem to have removed it. > correction. the scaling factor was ONLY for the scroll wheel. faders work fine for me on an SSL Nucleus usng Mackie Control, which I strongly recommend (Mackie Control (or the Nucleus if you want to pay for it :) > >
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