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8 months ago Hey @mrJonesmusic -- First off, thanks for writing in with your situation and offer to help!
I think this is an interesting idea to explore. Currently the code limits itself to the first 16 params (see bluhand.js line 9), but that is somewhat arbitrary and really only driven by how I was using it in Ableton. If I got into situations where device params were buried far down the list, I'd just group the device into a Rack and map the params I wanted from the device to the knobs in the rack, which then fits nicely with how Knobbler/Bluhand works. Not pretty, but it was a rare thing for me.
One note: OSC doesn't have predefined messages -- it's just a messaging format where you have full control over the sending and receiving side, so it's a matter of adding buttons to the TouchOSC layout that send messages like "prevBank" and "nextBank" and having code on the receiving side (the Max For Live device) to handle those messages properly.
I have some time this week to look at putting some Previous / Next bank buttons into the TouchOSC layout that send OSC messages to the Bluhand code to shift through banks of 16 params. To do this, I'd introduce a new variable into the code, e.g. paramBank and use that as an offset into the full set of params, with the loop in bluhand.js on line 133 making use of it, along with other protections around not letting the user move outside of the range of actual params.
Do you think it's important for it to remember which bank you were on when switching back and forth between devices? This would be a little more work, and could be done as a second step if having it always start with Bank 1 was annoying.
I think this would be pretty straightforward to do. Though if you'd like to take a crack at it, let me know. :) I think it would take me a couple of hours.
mrJonesmusic
Hello,
Firstly, thank you for this incredible work. I have a question and really hope that you can help me as i am scratching my head with this since several weeks....
Regarding your "Bluehand" touchOSC device, as i know, only the 16 first parameters of a device are mapped and I search a solution to be able to select the other banks of the device parameters so I could control all of the devices parameters that are available without the need to map them individually. As an exemple, my Launchpad pro mk3 can to this but as it doesn't has any screen it is really difficult to know in which order the device parameters are mapped.
Do you have any idea how I could implement this in your work? Is there any OSC message that exist in order to change the bank of parameter for the selected device?
Thanks in advance for your help_