On 03/11/2016 16:51, Len Ovens wrote:
On Thu, 3 Nov 2016, Yassin Philip wrote:
One can go further and specify precise
sizes, positions and layouts, and put them
in the config file, and switch to them on-the-fly. Oh, and of
course everything
can be resized/re-positioned with the keyboard. i3, by default,
uses the super
(win logo) key in a very elegant, mnemonically and unobtrusive
way. Fantastic,
told ya.
Now let me tell you, the real fun begins. No window overlap, no
more "always on
top" hacks, or putting down the guitar pick to fiddle with the
(*$-@+°#¤!) mouse
; Everything respond at the touch of a key, this is per-fick :)
cheers everybody.
Programmers, musicians, carpenters and motocyclists, lovers,
friends,
acquaintances, etc. and of course (duh) every combination of it
:)
Sounds great. Coming from a dual screen xfce with edit on one
screen and mixer on the other, I had not thought of these
problems. I am super glad you have figured it out, but the thought
that did cross my mind was: Control surface? I hate mice too for
creative thought, also windows appearing in the wrong place. WHen
monitors became available at $90 Canadian, I got a second one. It
is not high res (only 1600x900) and mixbus's mixer just barely
fits and mixbus32c doesn't. I do work mostly with Ardour though
and that is not a problem. But a control surface, even something
simple and cheap like:
http://www.ovenwerks.net/hardware/3dollarcontrolsurface.html is
another step up. (keys for fader up and down are _not_ the way to
go BTW)
I remember trying and failing to get your hack to work. May have
been the keyboard's fault..?
I am slowly working on a much nicer controller with
nicer faders. Here is an idea of what the display will look like
(9inch screen):
http://www.ovenwerks.net/paste/O-S-C-screen.png
This one does accept touch control (much better than mouse) and
will be able to be removed from the control for remote access. But
the controller will also have physical controls for many of these
controls and buttons. One 9inch screen per 8 strips and one just
for master and global controls.
Is this targeted at devices like phones/tablet or maybe small
pi-like Arm PCs? Souvenirs... In the last decade, I had a (2,
actually) Nokia N900 with Qmidictl
(It needed Qmidinet,
with the default settings) it was pretty cool (I only used the
transport functions, but still, neat) despite the N900's resistive
screen. Now, after a transition by the N9, I'm in the cold under
Android :( I tried to get TouchDAW
to work, but somehow failed. Didn't try very hard, Android depresses
me. I agree, having a control surface handy is the best of both
worlds.
I do not know qtractor well enough to say what is possible in
direct control from keyboard or other controller.
Probably. From my experience, it's very standard in terms of
external control, it's my understanding that it's in its DNA, that
it was intended first to control, and be controlled by, external
MIDI hardware. My experience is that everything works, like if you
plug a Novation X-Station (AKA Remote Audio 25, both quickly
discontinued for excess of affordable awesomeness) then transport
buttons do their job out of the box, that sort of neat things.
I did find the MIDI controler setup, so it is possible
for sure. I have not found any OSC Docs for qtractor though.
Me neither, and I'm interested. I basically don't know anything
about OSC, but as soon as I figure it out, I'll put in on the
wiki/manual :)
Anyway, thanks for sharing. keep experimenting.
Thanks ; well, I'm very happy with this current setup. I'm
discovering i3, I really like it.
--
Len Ovens
www.ovenwerks.net
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