benkuper
commented
2 years ago Interesting project, thank you for sharing. It also seems very specific to few usages in the whole Chataigne community and I'm not sure about adding a native module for this, as I try to only develop native modules when there is no possibility to create a custom/community module, or when the usage is so common or the performance gain is so obvious that it makes sense to integrate it directly in C++.
Another issue is that the beatlink library is in Java and would require a whole porting to C++. I looked a bit and it's not trivial work to get to the same level, it would take a fair amount of time !!
However, it seems to be all network communication (UDP or TCP, didn't look to deep), so it would be definitely possible to create a custom module I think. At least starting small with few relevant feature integrations and then improving it could make sense.
I suggest your propose that on the Discord server, which is where the most activity is happening ;)
dangowrt
key2
When trying to create dynamic shows driven (also) by Pioneer DJ gear beat-link-trigger can do an extremely good job. Using it's MIDI clock output, however, eats a lot of CPU and is not as precise as it could be.
When discussing this with @Deep-Symmetry we conlcuded that this situation could be improved by having a dedicated module using the beat-link library in Chataigne.
On Windows or Mac the situation can also be improved in some way by using Abelton Live to provide synchronization between Chataigne and beat-link-trigger. On Linux users are currently down to use the (not very precise) MIDI clock and having to manually map a lot of MIDI commands to be sent on beat events to Chataigne via MIDI (which is what I'm doing now). As beat-link allows to have all sorts of APIs added, it would be great not having to go this detour.