Hi,
I've been lurking here long enough and this forum has been invaluable in helping me complete a couple of simple midi device projects. I've ventured into a new project and I think my noob-ness is going to show. Finally created an account and can try and contribute!
I am looking to control an Audio Instrument that, if I created buttons and pots for all of them, it would require 325 inputs. I've listed all the menus in a spreadsheet and tried to pare down to the "essential" controls and that still gives me 120 buttons. Which got me thinking, if I could create a menu function, or a directory/subdirectory function, I could limit the device to ~40 or so buttons.
For more clarity, the program is a sequencer called Stochas. The midi mapping options basically work as 8 possible actions, with anywhere from 3 to 28 value changes to those actions, across 5 targets. I've attached a screenshot that hopefully helps explain it more clearly.
What I am hoping to do, have buttons and knobs for one set of the actions + values (83 buttons) and then be able to have the ability to have a menu control option. Since the 83 buttons are the same across the 5 targets (4 layers + all layers), if I can figure out how to choose the layer, that would simplify the actual physical controller.
Of course, if a single menu/directory option is possible, then essentially I could do the same for the value change actions that have 20+ options. But I also don't want to recreate a digital interface - I might as well just use the computer. But let's start with the top level - do I have the ability to have the teensy choose a directory and then the inputs correspond to a separate target in stochas?
Apologies if I am using incorrect technical terms for certain items. If it is of any help I have been mostly using the Control Surface Library for my other projects - I find it quite comprehensive and was helpful in learning a lot of this.
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I've been lurking here long enough and this forum has been invaluable in helping me complete a couple of simple midi device projects. I've ventured into a new project and I think my noob-ness is going to show. Finally created an account and can try and contribute!
I am looking to control an Audio Instrument that, if I created buttons and pots for all of them, it would require 325 inputs. I've listed all the menus in a spreadsheet and tried to pare down to the "essential" controls and that still gives me 120 buttons. Which got me thinking, if I could create a menu function, or a directory/subdirectory function, I could limit the device to ~40 or so buttons.
For more clarity, the program is a sequencer called Stochas. The midi mapping options basically work as 8 possible actions, with anywhere from 3 to 28 value changes to those actions, across 5 targets. I've attached a screenshot that hopefully helps explain it more clearly.
What I am hoping to do, have buttons and knobs for one set of the actions + values (83 buttons) and then be able to have the ability to have a menu control option. Since the 83 buttons are the same across the 5 targets (4 layers + all layers), if I can figure out how to choose the layer, that would simplify the actual physical controller.
Of course, if a single menu/directory option is possible, then essentially I could do the same for the value change actions that have 20+ options. But I also don't want to recreate a digital interface - I might as well just use the computer. But let's start with the top level - do I have the ability to have the teensy choose a directory and then the inputs correspond to a separate target in stochas?
Apologies if I am using incorrect technical terms for certain items. If it is of any help I have been mostly using the Control Surface Library for my other projects - I find it quite comprehensive and was helpful in learning a lot of this.
Links: