Hi Robin, Excellent work on this Hercules stuff. A lot of users are going to appreciate this.
On Sun, 2007-12-16 at 01:21 +1300, Robin Sheat wrote: > On Saturday 15 December 2007 01:35:31 Robin Sheat wrote: > > I've spent the past week hacking on the Herc, trying to get more than one > > LED to light (using the HID interface, rather than libdjconsole, still > > can't make that work). Tonight I finally made real progress! > OK, as a followup, I've attached a diff against head that makes the headphone > lights light appropriately when used with my kernel patch[0]. > > As far as I can tell, the only remaining important thing for the hercules > code > now is the pitch knobs don't work quite right...they always cause the pitch > to jump to where the knob was last set, which causes confusion if you use > sync. I'll look into that during the week. > > One other thing, now the leds are working...what should they do? There are > the > following, a left and right for each: cue button, master tempo, autobeat > (sync) button, and as a group, Fx, Cue, and Loop. These last ones are > supposed to show up the mode you're in that applies the '1,2,3' buttons at > the top I think. I guess the cue button is supposed to show up when you have > a cue point set, right? But mixxx always has one set, even if it's just the > start of the track. Can we tell if one's been explicitly set for this track, > or is there anything else that can be done with it? I don't much like the > idea of just lighting up when you press it as you already know you're > pressing it. > > Any suggestions about what I should make them do? > Since we don't really have a cue or loop function that deserves and LED, Adam made those three LEDs act as a VU meter on each side for the Herc on Win32. Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EEP1a5dkLM It looks cool and I can't think of a better use for them. :) Another thing - are you planning on pushing this patch upstream to the kernel.org tree? We should get rolling on this ASAP so we have a shot at getting it in the Ubuntu 8.04 kernel. Thanks, Albert > [0] the kernel patch is here: http://www.kallisti.net.nz/~robin/mixxx/ along > with the modules built for my Ubuntu 7.10 i386 system (2.6.22-14-generic). > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------- > SF.Net email is sponsored by: > Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. > It's the best place to buy or sell services > for just about anything Open Source. > http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace > _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel ------------------------------------------------------------------------- SF.Net email is sponsored by: Check out the new SourceForge.net Marketplace. It's the best place to buy or sell services for just about anything Open Source. http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;164216239;13503038;w?http://sf.net/marketplace _______________________________________________ Mixxx-devel mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/mixxx-devel
