On Tue, Mar 01, 2005 at 10:21:51AM -0500, Joe Hartley wrote: > On Tue, 01 Mar 2005 09:57:33 -0500 > Spencer Russell <Spencer.Russell@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I think I would prefer the dial to send relative information as > > to what direction it's turning, so that you can have more than > > 127 different values controlled by one knob. > > Uhhh, wha??? Do you mean turning the knob left sends out, say, > CC (control change) data on channel 1, and turning it right sends it > out on channel 2? Sorry if I wasn't clear. I was referring to what Frank said earlier about controllers that send MIDI 4 when turned to the left and MIDI 12 (or whatever numbers they use) when turned to the right. So lets say that I had a parameter that goes from 20 to 20,000. If my controller goes from 0 to 127, I have 128 steps of resolution, but if my controller sends relative information, then I have arbitrary resolution. I realize that this is completely useless for lots of standard DAW controller stuff, so I think that 0-127 should definently still be available, but the relative info can still be very usefull. I don't really understand where a wrapping controller would be advantageous, though. > > Keep in mind that there's no MIDI granularity of greater than 128. > You can't have a parameter that's < 0 or > 127. That's a fundamental > part of the MIDI spec. > I use a midi controller to send messages to PD patches, where the range of parameters is much larger than 0-127. hope this clears things up, so that I don't appear to be saying silly things. :) -spencer
