than one controller at a time. The two controllers can bank
independantly and even use different math for faders. This could be
used to allow talent to adjust their own monitor mix using a tablet
- or phone that can run an OSC controller.
+ or phone that can run an OSC controller. For a full explanation of
+ how Ardour's feedback works please read <a
+ href="/using-control-surfaces/controlling-ardour-with-osc/feedback-in-osc/">
+ OSC feedback In Ardour.</a>
</p>
<h2>Control Surface Set Up</h2>
<p>
Any time the <em>/set_surface</em> command is sent, the current bank
is recalculated and if feedback is turned on, the values of each
- strip's controls are sent (or refreshed) as well.
+ strip's controls are sent (or refreshed) as well. This will also
+ refresh the Master feedback setup.
</p>
<p>If /set_surface is not sent, the default values are used:
<ul>
<li><em>Bank Size</em>: 0 - No banking (or infinite bank size).</li>
- <li><em>Strip Types</em>: All strip types except hidden.</li>
+ <li><em>Strip Types</em>: All strip types except hidden and special.</li>
<li><em>Feedback</em>: Off.</li>
- <li><em>Fader Mode</em>: ABS - Absolute gain.</li>
+ <li><em>Fader Mode</em>: 0 - gain in dB</li>
</ul>
- These values give the same behaviour as prior versions of Ardour.
+ These values give the same behaviour as prior versions of Ardour. (or the closest possible)
</p>
<dl class="bindings">
<dt><kbd class="osc">/set_surface <em>bank_size</em> <em>strip_types</em>
hidden or selected strips.
</p>
<h3>feedback</h3>
-
<p>Feedback is an integer made up of bits. The easy way to
+<p>Feedback is an integer made up of bits. The easy way to
deal with this is to think of feedback items being worth a number and
then adding all those numbers together for a value to send.
+</p>
<ul>
<li>
1 - feedback values of controls in strips.
2 - Send meter values (not coded yet).
</li>
<li>
- 4 - Send timecode (not codeed yet).
+ 4 - Send timecode (not coded yet).
</li>
<li>
8 - Send Bar and Beat (not coded yet).
</li>
<li>
- 16 - Enable master section feedback (not coded yet).
+ 16 - Enable master section feedback.
</li>
</ul>
+<p>
So using a value of 17 would turn on feedback for strip and master
controls, but leave meters, timecode and bar/beat feedback off.
</p>
<h3>gainmode</h3>
<p>
- Gainmode is a string that is one of:
+ Gainmode is a an int that acts as a bool:
<ul>
- <li><em>ABS</em> Absolute Gain as a float value from 0.0 to 2.0
- sent in the same manner as the OSC command. For example:
- /strip/gainabs RID Value.</li>
- <li><em>DB</em> dB value as a float from -200 to +6. Sent as
- /strip/gaindB RID value.</li>
- <li><em>FADER</em> A positional fader based on the same math as
- Ardour's GUI. A float from 0.0 to 1.0.
- Sent as /strip/fader RID value</li>
- <li><em>INT1024</em> Also a positonal value, but an Integer from
- 0 to 1023 (1024 values) for controllers with no FPU. Sent as
- /strip/fader1024 RID value</li>
+ <li><em>0 (or false)</em> dB value as a float from -193 to +6. Sent as
+ /strip/gain RID value. (-193 or below are the same as -inf)</li>
+ <li><em>1 (or true)</em> A positional fader based on the same math as
+ Ardour's GUI. An Integer from 0 to 1023 (1024 values). Sent as
+ /strip/fader RID value</li>
</ul>
</p>
<h3>Master or Global messages</h3>
<h4>Master and Monitor strip control</h4>
-<p>(coming soon)</p>
<dl class="bindings">
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/master/gain <em>value</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>value</em> is determined by gainmode. (see /set_surface)</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/monitor/gain <em>value</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>value</em> is determined by gainmode. (see /set_surface)</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/master/gain <em>dB</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>dB</em> is a float ranging from -193 to +6 representing the desired gain of master in dB</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/master/fader <em>position</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>position</em> is an int ranging from 0 to 1023 representing the fader control position</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/master/mute <em>yn</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>yn</em> is a bool/int representing the desired mute state of the track</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/monitor/gain <em>dB</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>dB</em> is a float ranging from -193 to 6 representing the desired gain of monitor in dB</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/monitor/fader <em>position</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>position</em> is an int ranging from 0 to 1023 representing the fader control position</dd>
</dl>
<h4>Transport Control</h4>
<h3>Track specific operations</h3>
<p>
- For each of the following, <em>rid</em> is the remote ID for the track
+ For each of the following, <em>ssid</em> is the Surface Strip ID for the track
</p>
<p class="note">
- RID has a different meaning than in Ardour version 4.7 and before.
- Effectively, banking is always being used and the RID is generated on
- the fly. The RID is the possition of the strip within bank as an int
+ SSID has a different meaning than RID in Ardour version 4.7 and before.
+ Effectively, banking is always being used and the SSID is generated on
+ the fly. The SSID is the possition of the strip within bank as an int
1 to bank size. There are no gaps as there have been in the past.
Depending on the value of strip_types sent to Ardour, Master and
- Monitor, may be included in the list of RIDs or not as the controller
- sets.
+ Monitor, may be included in the list of SSIDs or not as set in
+ <em>/set_surface</em>.
</p>
<dl class="bindings">
<dt><kbd class="osc">/bank_up</kbd></dt>
<dd>Change bank to the next higher bank.</dd>
<dt><kbd class="osc">/bank_down</kbd></dt>
<dd>Change bank to the next lower bank.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/mute <em>rid</em> <em>mute_st</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/mute <em>ssid</em> <em>mute_st</em></kbd></dt>
<dd>where <em>mute_st</em> is a bool/int representing the desired mute state of the track</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/solo <em>rid</em> <em>solo_st</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/solo <em>ssid</em> <em>solo_st</em></kbd></dt>
<dd>where <em>solo_st</em> is a bool/int representing the desired solo state of the track</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/recenable <em>rid</em> <em>rec_st</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/recenable <em>ssid</em> <em>rec_st</em></kbd></dt>
<dd>where <em>rec_st</em> is a bool/int representing the desired rec state of the track</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/gainabs <em>rid</em> <em>gain_abs</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>gain_abs</em> is a float ranging from 0 to 2 (0 being -infinite, 1 being 0dB and 2 being +6dB).</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/gaindB <em>rid</em> <em>gain_db</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>gain_db</em> is a float ranging from -200 to 6 representing the desired gain of the track in dB.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/fader <em>rid</em> <em>fader position</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>fader position</em> is a float ranging from 0 to 1 representing the fader control position.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/fader1024 <em>rid</em> <em>fader1024</em></kbd></dt>
- <dd>where <em>fader1024</em> is an int ranging from 0 to 1023 representing the fader control position.</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/trimabs <em>rid</em> <em>trim_abs</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/gain <em>ssid</em> <em>gain</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>gain</em> is a float ranging from -193 to 6 representing the desired gain of the track in dB.</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/fader <em>ssid</em> <em>position</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dd>where <em>position</em> is an int ranging from 0 to 1023 representing the fader control position.</dd>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/trimabs <em>ssid</em> <em>trim_abs</em></kbd></dt>
<dd>where <em>trim_abs</em> is a float ranging from 0.1 to 10 (-20dB to +20dB). (since 4.1)</dd>
- <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/trimdB <em>rid</em> <em>trim_db</em></kbd></dt>
+ <dt><kbd class="osc">/strip/trimdB <em>ssid</em> <em>trim_db</em></kbd></dt>
<dd>where <em>trim_db</em> is a float ranging from -20 to 20 representing the desired trim of the track in dB. (since 4.1)</dd>
</dl>
<dt><kbd class="osc">Zoom/zoom-focus-playhead</kbd></dt><dd>Zoom Focus Playhead</dd>
<dt><kbd class="osc">Zoom/zoom-focus-right</kbd></dt><dd>Zoom Focus Right</dd>
</dl>
+
+{% children %}
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