Emu XL-7 & MP-7 User's Group

A few weeks ago (right after I posted that message), I played around with ctrlr. I had been hoping to get something decent as a sample to show what it could do, but the learning curve is steep.

I got as far as making a one-way panel (PC to E-Mu) as a performance thing--kinda to give people with P2K variants buttons and sliders to trigger and fade in/out arps like Command Station and P2500 owners have.

I have not gotten into the round-trip communication, but it should be possible. As for an editor, Proteum and Prodatum still seem to work for many people, so I don't know that its worth building a ctrlr based editor.

For me, I am more interested in real-time control surfaces.

This morning I tried a camstudio capture of something simple to demo the very basic panel I have, but I didn't have the frame set up right.

I will post a screen shot of what I have so far.  If anyone wants to use ctrlr to build other stuff for p2k-based gear, I'd be happy to contribute thoughts related to E-Mu sysex.

Recently, atom (the person who does ctrlr) posted some sample panels for other gear that demonstrate techniques for writing/designing ctrlr panels. Unfortunately for me, I no longer have the mental ability to reverse engineer these or to teach myself new programming languages. Also, he doesn't really have tutorials--its more that you have to look at the demos and other panels and figure it out yourself.

I would encourage others to see if they can master ctrlr.  I believe it can be especially helpful to give additional functionality to E-Mus. While it might be tempting to simply mimic editing features based on what the E-Mus can do themselves (i.e., editing from the front panel), I believe ctrlr panels could be designed to do different and perhaps more complex editing.

Anyhow, I have been debating where to post what I have done--probably at ctrlr.org itself with a note to both the XL-7 group and the P2K group.

Steve





--- In xl7@yahoogroups.com, Frankie Fisher <p2k@...> wrote:
>
> I've wondered if ctrlr was a better approach than jsynthlib for editing 
> patches - I think both suffer from being completely reliant on people to 
> implement support for each synth. no way around that I suppose.
> 
> frankie
> 
> On 19/07/13 17:56, steve_the_composer wrote:
> > This is an update of a post from almost 3 years ago. Somehow I recently
> > stumbled onto a panel for ctrlr for the EOS Sampler. So I thought I'd
> > check it out. I spent several days trying to make it work without success.