I think I misinterpreted the idea.. Maybe it's not what you have envisioned to take away the VST window but it might be easier to implement by the devs. Let me give it another go:u-u-u wrote:I think, I mean something different. For touch, you might have no keyboard attached to your e.g. Surface. So a shortcut won't do it.c-wave wrote:A real solution is there but not quite.. all is needed is for devs to implement this:u-u-u wrote:Whatching this video I also thought: "Hm, doesn't look so intuitive."takaii wrote:This is why touch isnt smooth XDxbitz wrote:
But I think it mainly was at the times where he was fiddling around with the plugin window. The plugin window always covered the touch gui. The major time of the video he was busy opening/closing it or moving it to the side to reach the BwS gui.
Definitely they should implement a solution for this problem (maybe some button to make the plugin window transparent and inactive temporarily (to let the user reach the BwS gui) or something like this). Hope the devs read this (just confirm, please). Otherwise it would be worth some feature requests
Right now, when I choose "desktop" setup in displays preferences, I can press "d" to show hide the devices panel.
From there showing/hiding the VST window as you suggested is just a click away.
Unfortunately, that is not the case with the Tablet display preference; unless you are in the "Mixer" tab. I tested the other tabs and the "d" button does enable/disable the devices panel.
I know that is for a reason but again product management is trying to enforce on us the way we should work!
Also the Bitwig interface is very well integrated. Nothing's hidden behind something else. Only plugin windows have this unfortunate habit to hide everything else. So I thought there should be some touch button/gesture for that. I don't want it be closed but I want to see and reach through it e.g. for quickly assigning a macro knobs to the last touched vst parameters. This touch button/gesture should of course be something that cannot be hidden behind the plugin window and it should be easy and fast to bring the plugin window back.
Yes not every tablet have a keyboard but the VST show/hide button should be there on every mode whether activated by keyboard or any other method. Toggling the VST window on/off would be one click/keyboard shortcut away.
EDIT: Here is a snapshot of the button that show/hide device panel on the mix section of the tablet gui. Maybe there should be a shortcut to show/hide device panel as well as a brand new (scrollable?) button to show/hide vst(s).
he actually uses Ableton but this was done in Bitwig 