Re: [Mixxx-devel] Which Hercules controller needs Linux support the most?

2013-03-14 Thread zestoi
on the djtechtools forum the RMX was always discussed quite a bit which is the same internals as the "control steel" i think? so my vote would be for that one. could also always add native hid support within mixxx which can give extra resolution to the various pots/faders etc On 15 March 2013 01:

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 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 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

Re: [Mixxx-devel] MIXXX MIDI clock output

2012-05-28 Thread zestoi
owen, pegasus_rpg said you may find a cross-platform high resolution timer useful for calculating elapsed times. i've used this code and seems very good: http://www.songho.ca/misc/timer/timer.html i'm using that in my experimental midi clock code to calculate elapsed time and work out when to se

Re: [Mixxx-devel] library layout redesign

2012-05-28 Thread zestoi
On 28 May 2012 23:13, Max Linke wrote: > Also what do you think of the option to view the library with a grid of > Album Covers? I've read in some Bug reports that people miss the > possibility to search through your library by picture when they use > DJ-Software and I've thought this could be a

Re: [Mixxx-devel] MIXXX MIDI clock output

2012-05-28 Thread zestoi
On 28 May 2012 21:11, Owen Williams wrote: > I'll see if I can get master_sync in slightly better shape. > > Right now when it starts up, all decks are set to slave mode and the > master block is set to 124 bpm (and you can't change it). the "beat" > message is the master clock reporting each do

Re: [Mixxx-devel] MIXXX MIDI clock output

2012-05-27 Thread zestoi
> > What do you mean by clock offset value? > an offset, either positive or negative, that is applied to every clock tick and start/stop messages. even with zero jitter it takes a non-zero amount of time for the code to realise it needs to send a clock message and for the other end to receive it a

Re: [Mixxx-devel] MIXXX MIDI clock output

2012-05-27 Thread zestoi
> > Midi clock in/out is (hopefully) going to be part of my master sync > work. Master sync should be in by 1.12 although I don't know if midi > will be done in time for it. It should be fairly easy to implement, > though. Mixxx will have a master sync object that not only knows what > bpm mixxx

Re: [Mixxx-devel] MIXXX MIDI clock output

2012-05-27 Thread zestoi
On 27 May 2012 09:17, Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus < spappala...@mixxx.org> wrote: > I started thinking of how to implement this while creating that, and we're > going to have a problem with clock drift because we don't currently have a > timing source with microsecond precision. (Since there

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Updated script for M-Audio Xponent

2012-05-21 Thread zestoi
you sure the xponent isn't sending out an 0xEx pitchbend message for pitch control? i remembered i also had an issue with that script.pitch() helper function when i wrote my djtech cdj101 script so i ended up rolling my own too - but i think i've just noticed the real reason... script.pitch = fun

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Patch PortMIDI to do callbacks?

2012-05-20 Thread zestoi
> > > On 05/20/2012 11:51 PM, zestoi wrote: > >> callbacks would be very nice... RtMidi supports them and i've found it >> much better than polling for incoming events (that i was originally >> using for my own projects) >> > > It's straightforward

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Patch PortMIDI to do callbacks?

2012-05-20 Thread zestoi
callbacks would be very nice... RtMidi supports them and i've found it much better than polling for incoming events (that i was originally using for my own projects) PortMIDI does support blocking reads - so in theory shouldn't be hard to implement? or the reader thread could just block instead of

Re: [Mixxx-devel] HID controller packet handling in js - first draft patch

2012-05-14 Thread zestoi
also in case anyone is interested, here's the wiki page i put together with a summary of what me and hile have been discussing on irc re: the hid api http://mixxx.org/wiki/doku.php/hid_device_api and my own hid script for the hercules mk2 from before we tried to merge ideas: http://djism.com/mi

Re: [Mixxx-devel] HID blacklist

2012-05-09 Thread zestoi
On 10 May 2012 02:25, ewan colsell wrote: > i suppose i didn't explain myself well enough, simple midi mapping is > fine, but i'm not getting anywhere making a mapping with shift key that > lets me use the jog wheel to select tracks in the file browser. > > my first attempt at a mapping for mixxx

Re: [Mixxx-devel] HID blacklist

2012-05-02 Thread zestoi
On 2 May 2012 18:36, William Good wrote: > Considering the number of requests we get for "can I use my trackpad > for $x" (where $x tends to be scratching but who knows what else) I'd > say no. i've used my touchpad as an XY pad for effects before. no need for any blacklists... tho not all hid

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-30 Thread zestoi
On 1 May 2012 01:09, Ilkka Tuohela wrote: > for hid devices i've found that just matching on dev->product_string is > enough. if someone has two controllers of the same type plugged in the 2nd > instance just has to make sure it doesn't try to open a device that has > already been opened. the ser

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-30 Thread zestoi
On 30 April 2012 06:02, Sean M. Pappalardo - D.J. Pegasus < spappala...@mixxx.org> wrote: > As RJ said, that's an unintended-consequences bug that I need to examine > more closely when I get back to my controller pile at home. (Still > traveling at the moment.) I added that so the serial number wo

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-29 Thread zestoi
On 29 April 2012 05:17, RJ Ryan wrote: > Sorry for the segfaults -- that was a general bug with the controller > branch which I already fixed in trunk but hadn't merged those fixes into > the branch. If you pull/update now you should get them. > excellent ;) pulled in the updates and all those i

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-28 Thread zestoi
just built features_point_and_click. a few issues, tho i am coming to this as a total noob - so please excuse any stupidness: * had to copy res/schema.xml to /usr/share/mixxx before it would run * connected my icon idj, went into enable the controller but the wizard button isn't clickable until i

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-27 Thread zestoi
On 27 April 2012 19:13, S.Brandt wrote: >* To make the Wizard useful for the max. number of features the > possibility to use a shift modifier is missing. > Some Controllers (i.e Vestax) have double assignments of buttons > but send the same midi for that particular button even

Re: [Mixxx-devel] late breaking 1.11 feature: point and click MIDI mapping

2012-04-27 Thread zestoi
> > If you want to try it out before merge, the code is here > https://code.launchpad.net/~mixxxdevelopers/mixxx/features_point_and_click > this all sounds like great stuff :) i'll grab that from bzr and give it a go later. > * (*Please give me feedback on this one) *I think our rule to not proc

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Loop pushing in Mixxx....need your pointers.

2012-04-27 Thread zestoi
On 27 April 2012 06:59, Philip Whelan wrote: > > I disagree here, VDJ's syntax is horrible and the language itself is > probably not very feature complete. I know that is not as relevant for > normal (or even most power users), but no reason to re-write our own > just for that. The Javascript eng

Re: [Mixxx-devel] Loop pushing in Mixxx....need your pointers.

2012-04-26 Thread zestoi
m keen to help with coding if i can - only recently started looking thru source code tho. /zestoi -- Live Security Virtual Conference Exclusive live event will cover all the ways today's security and threat landscape has ch