XotoPad V2.5 or V3 Feature Requests (un-official)

[kmonkey]

As it looks to me, claydr/conductr has some randomization options and the ability to automatically play other notes of the scale when you touch a single pad. This is something that XotoPad doesn't do.

Cheers,
Hauke of FeelYourSound

Yep precisely...

Would be great for some randomization. Sometimes i am amazed what randomization can do.

I'll test your software over weekend. It really seems great.

Keep up the good work

[Kalamata Kid]

Hauke,
Would be great if Xotopad was available as a CLAP plugin. I need to use four Xotopads each with a different output channel. Will use Xotopad inside Bidule so I will have the freedom to route the midi as I wish. Bidule will recall the setup so no need to organize the XotoPad arrangement each time I open it. In any case whether I use one XotoPad or four, the Clap implementation will be a real time saver.

I may get a 22” 10-touch monitor to be able to fit the four Xotopads.

[hauke]

Unfortunately, XotoPad will always remain a standalone application. The used programming language / user interface library cannot be used to create plug-ins :/.

[audiojunkie]

I must say that XotoPad is the best multi-touch midi keyboard controller for Windows that I know off. There may be some good midi controllers for the iPad but for me the Windows touch screen wins.
1. The Windows touch screen real-estate can be large! Mine is a 23" screen vs 9.5" for iPad.
2. No special connection to the PC is required makes this my favorite.

I simply love XotoPad. Yes I would like to see some features added! See my posts above

Thank you !!

hauke,

Will there be a version 3? When might it me released?
What features may be included.

There will be updates for XotoPad, yes! I think I will do small iterative updates instead of a big one, as these are better to manage for me. However, I cannot give a timeline right now. I will see what I can do.

One more feature request:
Note length by position, so that one can have long notes with low velocity and short notes with high velocity and the reverse. How about to be able to lengthen the notes when use pitch bend? The preferences for note length to include sustain, random and round-robin.

Umm.. so this would be a pad with a fixed note length? For example, regardless if you hold the pad down for a millisecond or a second, it will always play an eigth or sixteenth? And you will need to store the BPM somewhere?

Cheers,
Hauke

I use Linux. Do you know if XotoPad works on Linux through WINE? ....or could you compile a Linux-native version?

[hauke]

I don't work with Linux myself. But a few years ago a friend of mine tested XotoPad with WINE (but without a touch monitor). At least the keyboard and mouse functionality did work . You can download the demo and check it out yourself: https://feelyoursound.com/download-xotopad/

[kmonkey]

Reviving the Thread - I am confused. I downloaded a trial and looking to purchase it. BF discount seems nice. On one side it seems like the best touch thing for Windows. On the other side, something is painfully wrong.

All of the notes have the wrong numbers. Everything is shifted one octave. So C3 on XOTOPAD is C2 in reality.

At first, I thought I was imagining things. Then I loaded the MIDI monitor in Ableton Live and yes C3 in XOTOPAD is C2 in Ableton Live. And obviously, the piano roll suggests it as well.

Ok So loaded Cubase 13 to exclude Ableton shenanigans. Nope, no shenanigans.

Hit C3 in Xotopad and it is C2 in Cubase as well. Why?

What am I missing? The software seems super-capable.

Maybe he accepted a different Middle C standard (apparently there exist Yamaha and Roland standards) - but it is a weird choice to accept because all DAWs recognize "wrong" notes coming from XotoPad.

Is there an option in XotoPad where I could "compensate" this?

Edit: Never mind, the developer replied to me. There is no option at this time to compensate for this rather weird behavior. I proposed two new values in the Xotopad settings.

Yamaha keyboard numbering
and
Roland keyboard numbering

Depending on what the user selected the DAW could "see" exact notes that were written on the Xotopad.

Also, a different alternative solution to this situation would be an option for some global settings called "shift all notes one octave up" and with it a user could get the same result: C3 would be C3 in the DAW.