Hi,
I have some feature suggestions:
It would be awesome if:
· the buttons on the toolbar toogle show/hide the tools (now only shows, but doesn't close)
· shortcuts keys were added for toogle show/hide the tools
· were possible to use the pc's keyboard to play the piano (just like kontakt does, including the octaves)
Cheers.
This is an interesting idea.
However, it's not clear to me whether this would be an improvement in all respects:
To summarize: I can see that having show/hide buttons can useful to certain users in certain situations, but at the moment the disadvantages seem to outweigh the advantages. I'll have to think about it, and of course find a button type that can do this in the first place...
The keyboard window was never meant to be used as a serious playing tool.
For instance, this is why the arpeggio feature uses Windows' light-weight but inaccurate timing system, which can easily lead to hiccups.
This is also why I haven't bothered implementing the use of the computer keyboard for playing notes.
One problem is that not every computer keyboard uses QWERTY: some countries have AZERTY, some QWERTZ, etc. Maybe it is possible to use the computer keyboard's underlying scan codes (which should be the same); but still, in the end it may be best to make the assignments user-customizable, which of course will make things more complicated. So I can't promise anything, but I'll look into it.
Mark.
Hello!
What about minimizing to tray?
Thank you!
First attempt:
MIDI Tools 2.2.3 Alpha 2 for Windows:
Installer: https://mountainutilities.eu/dl/miditls-2.2.3a2-install.exe
32-bit portable: https://mountainutilities.eu/dl/miditls-2.2.3a2-x86-portable.zip
64-bit portable: https://mountainutilities.eu/dl/miditls-2.2.3a2-x64-portable.zip
You can minimize the application to the systray in two ways:
And of course you can restore the application by single-clicking on its icon in the systray.
(I've also tried to create a macOS edition, but I haven't been able to make that work (yet?).)
Hello!
I got a bunch of old Midi controller that I'm trying to make them compatible with some softwares, but I need to figure out its Midi Map.
Well for the input it's quite easy, but for the output, it would be nice a button to send 127 to every CC of a specific channel (to see if it do something (or is there a more proper way to do it?))
Thanks!
I'm not sure how useful such a button would be: if the device responds in some way, you would still have to figure out the actual CC causing this response.
And sending such a bunch of CC messages can have unforeseen consequences on the receiving MIDI device. For instance, the standard meaning of controller 0 is "Bank Select", so the device might indeed change to a different sound bank and might need some time before it responds properly to any other CC messages.
So here's what I do when I want to analyze the behavior of a MIDI device:
In the "MIDI controllers" window of MIDI Tools, I select controller 0 by mouse-clicking on its bar (so that there's a focus rectangle around the bar). Then I press Home: this sends 127 for controller 0; then I press End, which sends 0. I may also press PageUp and PageDown: these change the value by +8 and -8 respectively. Or even ArrowUp and ArrowDown for +1 and -1.
When I'm done with controller 0, I press Tab to switch to controller 1. (And Shift+Tab selects the previous controller.)
Yes, it takes a while to do this for all 128 controllers, but it gives direct info about the device's behavior.
Hope this helps,
Mark.