The Midi & Lua "book"

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Hi,

I have been struggling with COVID for over a week now, which makes it difficult for me to sit in front of my work computer.

I have tried to use some of the bed time to make progress on the companion book for the Electra One MIDI controllers. I have been focusing on the chapters that do not require taking many screenshots or hands-on work with the controller, ie. boring but necessary parts. Still, if anyone would like to take a look, feel free to visit: Electra One MIDI & Lua Crash Course | Electra One Documentation, I publish the updates as I go.

The book has three sections:

  1. MIDI
  2. Lua
  3. Projects that demonstrate how to apply what’s covered in the first two parts

I have quite a few ideas for projects to include: from simple uses of formatters, to efficient use of the parameterMap, and more advanced graphics and custom controls. That said, please feel free to share your wishes or suggestions here. I will do my best to take them into account.

Martin

EDIT: Some chapters are fully complete, while others still contain merely notes on what I want to elaborate there in more detail.

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Hi @martin ,

It might be useful to give more info here about the number precision supported in the specific lua implementation on the E1 hardware. Such as:

  • Is it double precision floating point (ie 64 bits) ?
  • What is the largest integer number that can be represented in a E1 lua script?

Related info (though not sure where this info would go), what is the maximum value range technically possible in a E1 control (aside from 7 bit / 14-bit MIDI, what about a “Virtual” control?) .. what is the largest range of min / max values supported for a E1 fader or dial? Does it go beyond 14 bit precision (16385) ?

Good to see some of this content being written, will be a big help for some preset authors (and to be fed into LLLMs too, no doubt).

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Hope you’re feeling better Martin.

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Pretty nice content based upon a quick read. Hoping you used an ai to help.

Fell better soon!

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@Songsta @Quelectra thanks! I tried working on Friday, it did not go well. But now, I am at the workshop and I hope it is behind me. It was quite unpleasant thought.

I use it to correct the language but I am trying to write as much of the text by myself as I can - I do not like the wording the AI generates.

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