DrBunsen Posted June 22, 2003 Report Share Posted June 22, 2003 Hi,This is an idea stolen from a professional digital mixing desk. I'm not sure how it would best be implemented, or which MIDIBox project it would be best to use, so I thought I'd post it here for comments.You have one row of 16 pots, rotaries or faders. This single row of knobs in fact controls 256 "virtual" knobs in an imaginary 16 x 16 grid. The box works in two modes: horizontal and vertical. In horizontal mode, each pot adjusts the same parameter across 16 different MIDI channels. For example, volume for 16 different voices. A button or menu selection allows you to change all 16 pots to another value (pan, effect level etc). It is like one row of the same knob across a mixing desk.In vertical mode, it becomes a "channel strip": adjusting 16 different parameters on *one* MIDI channel. This lets you get into detailed editing of a single voice.I realise that this could be simply implemented as patch assignments on the MIDIbox 16E project, which would have enough patch memory using the Bankstick (32 patches = 16 horizontal + 16 vertical patches). However, I thought I'd see if anyone can suggest a simpler or better way to create this.For example: each set-up would be 256 (16 x 16) parameters assigned to the 256 "virtual" knobs. This would be stored as a single patch, and the horizontal/vertical modes and parameter/channel selection simply changes what "virtual" knobs the row of real knobs is assigned to.The second way should use less memory, as you are not doubling up the assignments for the "virtual" knobs. (ie 32 patches x 16 values = 512 assigments vs 256 assignments).Hmm, doesn't save that much memory after all.Oh well, comments welcome.(A quick question for Thorsten: when do you expect to complete the MIOS port of the 16E firmware? And congratulations on the SID step C - it looks great!) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TK. Posted June 23, 2003 Report Share Posted June 23, 2003 My holidays are over, so it could take a while until I will find to start with the MB16E port. However, "vertical" and "horizontal" mode sounds nice, it shouldn't be a problem to integrate this into the MIOS based version. 256 parameters should be possible (however, thats the limit, since also 2*256 MIDI events have to be stored in RAM in order to process the incoming stream as fast as possible)Best Regards, Thorsten. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBunsen Posted June 27, 2003 Author Report Share Posted June 27, 2003 Thanks for the comment TK, I'm glad you liked the idea. ;D ;D ;D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DrBunsen Posted July 30, 2003 Author Report Share Posted July 30, 2003 I had another idea to go with this. It might be nice to have some (32) LEDs to indicate which strip or row you are working on - 16 each for the vertical and horizontal modes.And the LCD could say "Volume ALL" or "Channel 5" (user definable) as well. Please excuse me if this is already built in. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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