V4.0 testing [was V3.7]

[martin]

@Mint-Gecko

I think there’s a regression in 3.7.0f that breaks my preset made for my REAPER control surface plugin . On the E1, I’m doing this to ensure that knob movement is always applied to control set #3:

function events.onPotTouch(potId, controlId, touched)
    PotTouched[potId+1] = touched

    local controlSet = pages.getActiveControlSet ()
    if controlSet == 1 or controlSet == 2 then
        pages.setActiveControlSet (3)
    end
end

When updating to v3.7.0f, this just stopped working requiring me to manually click on the third control set to enable it. Any idea why this is happening?

I had troubles to replicate the issue first. It seemed to worked just fine. I found it eventually, it is related to the migration from the original config format and the new one. It is fairly easy to fixed.

@Mint-Gecko

Thanks for the improved pot readout, it is working much better than v3.6.1/2. The maximum acceleration is a bit slow with the current version. It used to be very easy to get from min to max with a very quick but short movement. With v3.7.0f, this is very hard. I mostly hit the neighboring knobs with my fingers before reaching the end of the value range. Is that slower acceleration part of the fix?

I will make the acceleration curve steeper to see how it works.

@Mint-Gecko

On-screen controls can be mapped and adjusted using MIDI CC (absolute and relative)

Can we also change a control’s value range, name, value text or control type (button, fader, envelope, list) using MIDI messages?

the 3.7 brings a bigger change in how the internal commands are processed (I think we talked about that at the Superbooth). There is now a central event processor and all the IO / API simply inserts a message to the event processor queue. This means that virtually anything that can be done with Lua or UI, can be also done using the MIDI messaging. That means, that adding new MIDI messages to manipulate controls is easy now. But, as v3.7 grew big, I want to make sure it gets out soon without adding more features. I am happy to add new sysex api calls in v3.8.