MIDI Output for controllers

[tobyasz]

The midi option works well. Just an idea, if we set a button color for the sound buttons, it will also appear as a colored button on a midi controller with rgb buttons, for example when using the akai APC Mini mk2.
Thanks for your work.

[Couin]

Hi,

I slpitted the topic

I already though about this but it's here a lot of work to integrate: any controllers have a different MIDI chart, I can not design something like 3 faders (for RGB colors) to set the button color to light. The only way would be the user manually set the MIDI code to send at press and release.

[tobyasz]

I think it would be a perfect solution if the user could set the rgb code or even to light up a midi button if a sound is assigned to it. For me, the buttons on my Behringer controller only light up yellow, but for example, in the Sonic Pi I programmed the buttons to light up to which sounds are assigned, so it's a good feedback to the user as to which buttons can be used.

[Couin]

Lighting a controller button when user click on jingle button is a thing, lighting the button if a jingle is assigned is another. Also, it exposes another point : jingle is assigned, so we light the button, but when jingle plays, keep the same color ? Light with anither color ?
In all case, if there is a feature like that one day, it's not for the next version. I want to sort out a pre-release soon, of 5.7 .

[Couin]

Hmmm, I managed so programming to see what I can do and finally it's for the moment, on a good way.
For the moment, it's not linked to controller's buttons events yet, only to JP jingle buttons, but it's to show the idea.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eqynky7d5gU

I can only test with my Novation LaunchPad S, I found its MIDI programming chart, but I don't know how other controllers works.
For each jingle buttons, are available 4 MIDI messages for different status:
- Jingle is present (available)
- Jingle is missing (button not assigned or file is missing/bad format)
- Press jingle button
- Jingle is playing

In the video example:
- Dark green is for available jingle
- Dark red is for no jingle assigned/file missing
- Bright yellow is when I press (and maintain pressed) the jingle button
- Bright green is when the jingle is playing (with the button has been release)