I bought 2 days ago a Wacom tablet, and guess what, I remembered having seen
this tablet to midi software on the net. Real cool, to be able to develop your own mixer and controller layout. If I would use it in practice, I don't know, as I am just a hobbyist, and already happy if this windows operating system is functioning without a hassle, and every new software that is not integrated in an existing package tends to make the os less stable. Anyway, just some thoughts, after trying out this software.
Most of these requests are simply functions of existing mixers, midi-controllers or sequencers:
FR#1: Snapshot function with recall possibility user definable on the tablet.
Say define 10 little boxes on the upper left corner of the tablet, of which 5
store snapshot 1 to 5 and 5 recall snapshot 1 to 5. The making of this
snapshot only makes sense, I imagine, if the user doesn't make changes to the
basic lay-out anymore after a snapshot has been taken. So if I try to imagine
this in a kind of workflow chart, then first the user should confirm with
himself that he is satisfied with the basic lay-out that he made, then he
should 'freeze' this lay-out into a kind of template, and only then he can
put snapshot buttons on the lay-out, which, for instance, always could be on
the upper left corner of the tablet.
FR#2: Visual feedback when requested on the pc monitor of the values, with
three options: 1. no visual feedback. 2. visual feedback when mouse-pointer
hovers above object. 3. visual feedback always on. For instance for the
wavetable of the microwavepc (or xt of II), which is cc 70, I would welcome
always to see which wavetable is currently active, since this is the
cornerstone of the sound being sculpted. For cut-off or resonance I could
imagine not always wanting to see visual feedback of the values, but only
when the mouse hovers above the X-Y pad (or slider). It would also be nice to
see the values already when the pen is near the the tablet, so that I know in
advance which the values are going to be if I would touch the tablet. The
current values and the 'to be' values could perhaps be programmed to have a
different colour or the 'to be' value could be flashing on and off or
something?
FR#3: Pitch bend jumping back to zero after release.
FR#4: User definable hot spots in parameter range. Say only the combination
of cut-off in between 50 and 110 and resonance in between 90 and 110 sounds
interesting. It would be nice then to be able to program the slider or XY-pad
to only have values in these ranges.
These are some thoughts for. Don't know if they are implementable. Am pretty
much 'engeistered'
though by using a graphics tablet as a midi controlling device. (I am new to this forum, so forgive me this jumpy text-lay-out)
Cheers,
Alwin.