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Also about understanding how it works... In most synths you can establish some modulating link, so some knob/parameter influence something completely different. I mean you probably can follow that concept, right?

In my example it is in the same direction. You create some "parameter" (called Software Set of States) and then use it as "modulator" for something (the instance of the synth, the parameter of the synth, etc.). You also need to control the parameter itself, my button is an example how it can be done. A kind of "MIDI link" to parameter (on incoming MIDI you change the parameter).
If in a synth you link PitchBend absolute value to the filter frequency, the result will be not so good... I mean the mapping/modulation has to be reasonable and with intention

What worry me is the name of the synth "Playbeat    *", that last star after many spaces... I have to check if I still have some mess with naming (or Cakewalk still does...).

Note your TestKnob1 is not the same as my TestKnob1 - you have added parameter shift. That is like in my fSelectKnobPar(_knob). But for that to work correctly, you need to follow the whole example, I mean set _knob, convert it to _par and use _par then. But you write you can't get it...

The only Button in my example is to switch instances. But for that related Set should be used in the Rack action, and you don't have it on screenshot ("skip 0")

Hi, I have just received the notification McAfee has whitelisted this particular installer.
Probably till I update the version they will not block it 

 
I don't understand the third step (Btn-3). I can trigger PlayBeat Vol_1 (1st instance) using the first slider (encoder), and Vol_2 (2nd instance) using the second. The switch does something too, but I don't grasp what it's actually supposed to do. At state -1- I'm able to control the second button. As for the subsequent steps, they are beyond my level of understanding anyway.

Thanks for the quick reply. Understood. Virus detectors tend to be a bit hair triggered.

Hello Paul,

I have submitted request to McAfee, but I don't track all these "false positives". There are tens of engines in the internet, and at least 2-3 of them ALWAYS report ANY executable as a virus.
Unfortunately, there is still no regulation to protect developers from such misbehavior of "virus detection" companies.

You can add it as an exception, if you trust me (BTW, I am real human, with real name and real address... do you know someone from McAfee, to trust them more? )

In general, in the "detected" virus information, you normally can "deduct" by which method it was "detected". When you see something like "Gen" / "AI" and alike, that is "AI based", so "potentially" virus which is not known yet to make dedicated check. In all years I have not seen any real new virus/spy-wire which was detected such way (obviously, virus writers just check with online scanner that what they are going to spread is NOT detected, not many virus writers are so stupid not to do this  )

Hi:

Thank you so much for the work you've done making and supporting this plug-in. I'm looking forward to making use of it for my upcoming mix project. Unfortunately, Mcafee LiveSafe flags it as having a virus and quarantines it so I'm unable to download it.

azctrl_0_ 5r12b433.exe

McAfee detection ti!08b5b6965ecd

Thank you for your attention to this

Paul

Okay, Alexey, I've got something working now. I managed to control the PlayBeat plugin (mixer)
using a Touch Portal Slider (Relative Mode) and your AZ CTRL setup...
Please, let me know how to proceed, ha ha

I can't get the expensive Arturia MIDI controller with its sophisticated, endless hardware encoders to work, yet the completely obscure Touch Portal (paired with a MIDI plugin) which isn't even designed for audio—does a great job. This is symptomatic of the whole mess of our time...
 
I'm also curious: how would you rate the MIDI functionality in MorningDAW? I get the impression,
though I'm no expert, that they've done a good job there. The interface is quite alluring.
It's likely that the developers, much like the creator of Reaper, set out to shake things up a bit...

https://youtu.be/Tp-j32yiovY

I was working with touchpad (at work) for 10 years, as long as I had a notebook with dedicated buttons above and below the touchpad. Then I have switched to MX Master mouses, which fit right ergonomically for me (the form does matter!). With elevated left side, the hand lay in natural position. For clicking you don't have to bend fingers - buttons are sufficiently long so you press by the whole finger, the resistance is sufficient to completely relax fingers when you are not clicking. Half of my hand is on the table. As i wrote, I had problems till I have found correct devices.

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I am still active in Accessibility, so DAWs without API are "no go". Even when original developers make an application accessible, the result is always far from perfekt. To understand it is bad or good, you need to switch off the monitor and work with the program for hours. Which sighted developers do that?

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Open Stage Control is designed to work on touch devices, in browser. And it is for MIDI/OSC. It is possible to "sync" controls, so "cooperate" devices (f.e. make fader/knob on touch screen controlled by your Arturia, while still target Synth in Sonar).

But any half way logical operations require small code peaces in JS. Well, even WWW, after very long attempt to do things purely descriptive way with HTML/CSS has realized that "logic" needs some kind of "code". There is theory (with proved theorems) why it is so (my original profession is "controlling", so I have studied that rarely mention topic). "Brute force" (aka "Remote control" in DAWs) approach stop working well once the complexity of what your control (f.e. a synth) rise. That is unavoidable: the complexity of controlling system should match the complexity of controlled system. Unfortunately, some people which build very complex systems (f.e. huge particle accelerators) try to control them with "simple" approaches, and then wonder why that doesn't work       

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I have first tried to use Web interfaces long time ago (f.e. Sonar Transport control from browser), but at that time the technology was not ready (browsers on phones had tendency to switch app or scroll, instead of operating controls and there was no "Web Socket" direct stream connection in the backend). So I have found TouchScreen and alike (dedicated Apps) work better. But there was drastisch improvements in that section, to allow building complete applications purely based on web technologies.

Open source and no dedicated App means you are not companies dependent. The history of Sonar shows why that is good.

I wish open source DAWs was on pair with other, but they are not. REAPER is not open source, but it will work virtually forever, even if the development is abandoned now. You still can download version 1, and it will run.
Other DAWs try to bring "modern" interfaces and other "current trend" features, which tend to stop working relatively fast. No source to update and it doesn't work any more, the end... There is no version of CbB which can work now, Sonar Platinum depends from authorization servers and "new" Sonar is also "locked". I still have Sonar X2/X3, with corresponding plug-ins, for that reason. 

I've tried everything: trackballs, various mice, touchpads, and joysticks.
The touchpad works best, but my personal favorite is using Touch Portal
with a stylus and my smartphone as a virtual mouse/touchpad (Remote Mouse).
Perhaps I should go back to playing the piano more - strangely enough, that
actually seems to help...

MorningDEW is also available in a Linux version, which might be of interest
to you.
In my view, this DAW is the best I've ever used, both in terms of graphics
and functionality. The overall concept is incredibly well-developed.