[Mixxx-devel] Slip mode in DJO-Hacks-Trunk

2012-06-02 Thread Philip Whelan
I just noticed Owen added a slip mode to his hacks branch. I'm just sending this out to comment on it and ask Owen: how accurate is it? This would be excellent to use with my new MIDI Fighter Pro mapping. In the future we should attempt to make it possible to implement it in MIDI Script, not neces

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread zestoi
> > When you use their own latching mode you can set values for lights that > are on the inactive page. When you switch to that page, they'll already > be on. It's a really nice system because it means the host app doesn't > need to know anything about the latching system. > yep, that is quite c

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread Owen Williams
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 23:31 +0300, zestoi wrote: > ah yep, this is true. also the k2 is kind of odd that you have to send > different messages, not just different values, to select alternative > colours. i'm really not sure why they implemented it that way. i'm > also planning on getting a k2 soon

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread zestoi
> > > > > it might also be nice to have a builtin layer system with led recall. > > I definitely think this would be useful. I'm working with the Xone K2 > right now and although it has its own latching system there is also a > mode where the lights and buttons are completely driven by software.

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread Owen Williams
On Sat, 2012-06-02 at 23:01 +0300, zestoi wrote: > we definitely need them, which is basically part of the modifier > system we have been discussing: > > http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/modifier_system Thanks for the link. I searched for "shift" and didn't find this. > > it might also be nice

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread zestoi
we definitely need them, which is basically part of the modifier system we have been discussing: http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/modifier_system so you'd be able to map a control to change or query a modifier from xml, javascript or the gui. it might also be nice to have a builtin layer system wi

[Mixxx-devel] Directly support "shift" in midi controllers?

2012-06-02 Thread Owen Williams
A lot of midi controllers have a "shift" key, which effectively doubles the number of buttons by allowing the user to hold the shift button while pressing another to activate secondary behavior. Because the controller xml spec doesn't support buttons with dual-functions, this means a lot of logi