Can I apply the Dynamic Controls features to an external controller?

Question

Currently I'm using Lite, not Pro, to see if your app will serve a specific need I have right now.

I have KM QuNexus. I want to smooth the pressure data (currently coming as Mod Wheel) and give it a release time. Similar to the Dynamic Controls for the onscreen faders when I move it with my finger. But when the fader responds to an incoming controller message, the response is not smoothed at all.

It may be that there's a way to do this in Lite or Pro, but I can't quite get to it yet. I'm happy to purchase Pro *if* it will do this one thing (I'm sure I'd other uses, but this is on my mind now).

Can you tell if this can be done, through Pedalboards, or perhaps SuperControls? I realize I'm using the free teaser, and don't have every feature. And/or I'm maybe just not seeing what I need to do as yet.

Thanks for your support on this. I'm impressed by what I see of the app. I just want to find out if and how it'll get me over this hump before I commit $$. Cheers!

Answer 1

Hi and thanks for your question. First of all, it's completely irrelevant to the question whether you're using Pro, Lite, or one of the two on a friends' iPad with no intention to buy, ever. Pro and Lite are the same except for the Lite Bar. The support is the same too, whether you're Richie Hawtin, totally unknown, or somewhere in between.

Find out more about the differences between Pro and Lite

Thanks for your question about the QuNexus. It's not currently possible, but it's an awesome suggestion. I'm switching this to suggestions, and hoping you'll continue to use MIDI Designer Lite in whatever capacity it's useful!

Thanks!
Dan

Comments

Thanks, Dan. I really appreciate your answer. I had made it as far as figuring out the use of pedalboard and supercontrols and that there was no difference in the dynamics. So I was going to make this a suggestion anyway. I'm glad you see the merit of it.

I can see also that it's a little bit different from an onscreen control, in that you have to sense the direction and rate of travel, rather than a touch on the screen. It's a bit like the attack and release controls on a dynamics processor I think.

I do have some background in this area, so if you like to bounce ideas around I'm game, and certainly happy to test anything you implement. I think it really might be worthwhile for you. Certainly QuNexi are proliferating fast, and I think this function is useful in a lot of other situations. For instance, I have a breath controller that I've seldom used largely because of the self-same issues.

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Thank you, that's great to know. This definitely won't happen for a couple of months at the soonest (lots of great features to add before that).

There are, in fact, some problems with using external hardware to trigger certain events, like snap-to-default. There are several ways to handle this, such as beginning the snap-to-default event after not receiving new MIDI data for XX miliseconds. However, like most things, until we actually implement it and try it out, we won't know what's a good idea and what's not. In fact, this is why MIDI Designer has big advantages by being such a small company (though this sounds backwards, it's not, or at least in a lot of cases).

I'll comment back here to enlist your help when we're at this point. Good luck with MIDI Designer and thank you for the open dialog!

Answer 2

Hi and thanks for your question. First of all, it's completely irrelevant to the question whether you're using Pro, Lite, or one of the two on a friends' iPad with no intention to buy, ever. Pro and Lite are the same except for the Lite Bar. The support is the same too, whether you're Richie Hawtin, totally unknown, or somewhere in between.

Find out more about the differences between Pro and Lite

Thanks for your question about the QuNexus. It's not currently possible, but it's an awesome suggestion. I'm switching this to suggestions, and hoping you'll continue to use MIDI Designer Lite in whatever capacity it's useful!

Thanks!
Dan