On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 2:28 PM, Paul Davis <paul@email-addr-hidden>
wrote:
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> On Thu, Aug 7, 2014 at 1:44 PM, Len Ovens <len@email-addr-hidden> wrote:
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>> On Wed, 6 Aug 2014, Len Ovens wrote:
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>> I do have a question though about ardour control by midi. The Mackie IF
>>> says it sends control messages that are in the form num of ticks up or
>>> down. This means I should be able to have a key send ticks up and another
>>> ticks down, but this doesn't seem to work.
>>>
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>> It does work... but only into the the mackie midi in. It only seems to
>> expect 0 to 100 ticks which is probably not enough for a fader anyway. This
>> is probably due to physical limitations in the encoders, getting more than
>> 96 or so ticks per full turn starts to get expensive real quick (10 to 1 or
>> so... which answers the why use motor faders question). Changing controls
>> on the gui while monitoring the midi out was very informative.
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> Ardour has an internal scaling factor for those ticks, or did at some
> point. The Mackie D8B mixer had similar issues with its scroll wheel. We
> seem to have removed it.
>
correction. the scaling factor was ONLY for the scroll wheel. faders work
fine for me on an SSL Nucleus usng Mackie Control, which I strongly
recommend (Mackie Control (or the Nucleus if you want to pay for it :)
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