markwheeler/midi-mixer-one

MIDI Mixer One is a mixer-style MIDI controller built around Teensy. Includes hardware designs, firmware and a web config tool.

midi-mixer-one's Issues

Idea: allow for an “Alt" key to make 3 or 4 layers of switch values

hi 👋

I’m using midi-mixer-one with the 1010 Bluebox. I have 8 mixer channels assigned to the 8 columns of pots. I’d also like to be able to use 8 of the switches in 4 different “layers”. Allowing for one of the switches to act as an “Alt” key, in addition to the Shift key, would mean that 8 of the 10 remaining keys could easy map to each column of pots for things like Mute/Solo/Rec.

For example: key1 sends a CC that arms track 1 for rec, shift+key1 sends a CC that mutes track 1, alt+key1 sends a CC that solos track 1. Alt+Shift+key1 could also allow for a 4th layer and 40 total CC’s that could be sent via the switches. Or the Alt+Shift combo could be the “Send All CCs” command, for a total of 30 CC’s + Send All CC's

I forked the repo and started to code this, but quickly ran into an out of bounds error when trying to add the extra arrays for switchAltValues and switchAltShiftValues in serialize() and realized that I a) may have added more data than can be serialized, and b) don’t know jack squat about serializing MIDI data 😁

so before I go down a dark rabbit hole of trying to understand how MIDI data is sent over the wire, does this even sound possible? If so, does it sound like a worthwhile addition to the firmware? If so, I’m happy to contribute a PR adding the logic in the arduino code and necessary forms on the web-config tool. However, I may need some guidance on the un/serialize piece.

jason