Electra Mini : challenges and suggestions

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Mine arrived Friday. What a discovery :slightly_smiling_face:
I’ll be posting an Evil Pet preset shortly.

Challenges found :thinking:

  • On win10, I experience issues to send a preset to the Mini, if the Mini is within a V Fader 4 screen. The transmission stalls.
  • I can’t ‘overdub’ a control anymore using ctrl-V, xctrl-C, so I can copy a control’s attributes and assign them to a different control type
  • the difference between a wide and small fader can’t be set anymore (but there are workarounds)

Some suggestions :wink:

  • show the value on a dial control? Currently not possible, even with a formatter function.
  • choose to reset to a default value when clicking the encoder
  • on the V Fader 4 , be able to name and hide each of the four controls
  • I’d love a V Fader 8 variant. It’s very intuitive to press an encoder to access a submenu. the main control should then indeed show 2 rows of 4 faders.
  • on a dial, have a small line where the 0 value is (makes it easier to differentiate unipolar versus bipolar controls). I now resolve this where possible by defaulting 1 instead of 0.
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A surprising issue: I wanted to tweak page 3 “Filter / OSC” on my Evil Pet preset a bit more today, but the controls were not responsive on the editor. So I cloned that preset and to my surprise, the full page 3 was simply gone missing both in the clone ànd in the original. In the end I reverted back to Revision #33 from yesterday to save as much as possible from what I had already built.

No error was given or other weird things were noticed.
I seemed to happen after I had built 3 new dial controls that had the same MIDI CC’s as mentioned in an existing V Fader 4, but this one wasn’t even on that Page 3.