Re: [Om-synth] midi bindings

[Dario Aprea]

--- Dave Robillard <address@hidden> ha scritto: 

> I extremely dislike the idea of cluttering up the control windows
> with
> MIDI binding crap, to be honest.

Blessed are the honest. :D
 
> Unfortunately, the problem with making MIDI bindings easier isn't on
> the
> GUI side of things; if it was just an issue of adding a widget here
> or a
> menu entry there, it would have been done long ago.
> 
> The problem is that setting up MIDI bindings for a specific port is
> inconsistent and strange within Om's "everything is a Node"
> philosophy,
> and pollutes the OSC namespace and is just generally more complicated
> than I like.  The MIDI control node thing is elegant and consistent
> from
> an architechtural point of view, but crap from a user point of view.

I didn't think of it. I definitely agree with you.

> I was thinking of maybe adding a "MIDI Learn" menu option to a ports,
> which actually creates a MIDI control node automatically, sets it's
> range to the range in the control dialogs, and connects it to the
> port.
> Best of both worlds?

Yes, great idea, best of *each* world, I'd say. Also from a user point
of view: the midi control node would make evident what port was midi
bound. Much better than hidden bindings.

Dario


        

        
                
___________________________________ 
Yahoo! Mail: gratis 1GB per i messaggi e allegati da 10MB 
http://mail.yahoo.it