Display options for evenly aligned button grid

[tago]

Hello,

are the two 40x2 Displays the only reason for seperating the grid in two groups ( left/right each x8 columns)? I'd like to have 16 evenly spaced columns.

Are there any display options for a single display configuration, where the display doesn't have to be aligned with the btn/enc grid?

 

Thank you

 

[Hawkeye]

The SEQv4 heavily relies on both 40x2 character displays. While you could hack the firmware to put it all on a single character display, this would be a big amount of work and probably the usability would suffer.

Aligning the display to the GP buttons and encoders below makes total sense, as you can visually modify the displayed note. You could of course add some kind of "guiding lines" to the frontpanel, but that might not be as intuitive.

You can minimize the distance between the CLCDs of course, but there would always be a little "gap".

Many greets!
Peter

[tago]

Thanks Peter.

A pity there is no easy way doing it. I don't see much potential to gain some horizontal space with these display modules. Do you mean removing the controller pcbs from the displays?

Why would it be hard to hack the firmware? Isn't there something like a display manager with some abstraction or is the display stuff hardcoded?

[TK.]

There is a display manager located in this file (read the header for more information): http://svnmios.midibox.org/filedetails.php?repname=svn.mios32&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fapps%2Fsequencers%2Fmidibox_seq_v4%2Fcore%2Fseq_lcd.c

However, each page heavily relies on a 2x80 screen. See the various seq_ui_* files in this folder: http://svnmios.midibox.org/listing.php?repname=svn.mios32&path=%2Ftrunk%2Fapps%2Fsequencers%2Fmidibox_seq_v4%2Fcore%2F&#

It will be too much effort to adapt this to other screen sizes, you won't see the necessary information to handle the sequencer efficiently.

However, if you find any other display which allows to display 2x80 characters (or more, maybe a graphical LCD?) then this could help - but the coding job will be at your side.

Best Regards, Thorsten.

[tago]

Thanks TK

I took a look into the files + some of the tutorial videos and understand the problem better now.

Since some menu items spread over more then one step column, one small OLED per step wouldn't be ideal either. System and sequence/step data display are baked into that 80x2 layout.

If each step could have its own data display (OLED, 7 Segment, LED Matrix or something like that) and the system stuff in a seperate display, that would be nice.