On Thu, 7 Aug 2014, Paul Davis wrote:
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 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.
There seems to be some scaling for the encoders too, Sometimes one tick moves one notch and sometimes two... probably to get 100 out of 96, which makes sense(defaults to pan, I haven't tried other modes yet). I have not played with the scroll as yet.
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 :)
So far I have spent $3 on this surface :) I expect the key labels will cost more than that though. Still, it is already very usable in the form it sits. I think if I do 5 or 6 channel banks I will have as complete channels as possible. If I just use the controller and make my own switch panel, I could get the full 8 + master and transport. I am aiming for half.. The encoders and "faders" will have their own HW.
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