Alright. This whole project just metamorphosized yet again. So to help with the seemingly endless decision fatigue I always seem to rack up with I’m going to do a series of polls. I’ve been messing about with FSRs (for sensitive resistors) like those found in MPCs ableton push ect and hacked together a 4x4 matrix of them for testing. It could be a viable alternative for the keyboard allowing for expressive midi overdub while not detracting from the standard Renoise qwerty keyboard workflow.
Next I’ve had a real bear of a time trying to dial in the cursor input. Specifically getting the trackpad to work properly with they keyboard firmware (QMK… iykyk). This endevour started after several people expressed a dislike for touch screens on their music hardware. I tend to agree with this sentiment. Ya’ll, your ‘input’ pun very intended regarding your preference would be greatly appreciated on the following:
Starting with the keyboard:
- Mechanical Keyboard for input with per key LED (Normal typing Layer, MIDI keyboard layer, and MIDI CC layer)
- Pressure Sensitive Silicon Pad Keyboard with per pad LED (Normal typing layer, MIDI keyboard layer, and MIDI CC layer)
and cursor input/control:
- A circular track pad with outer edge clockwise/counter-clockwise scrolling
- A hall-effect joystick and rotary encoder for mouse movement and scrolling
- A trackball (using opaque glass marbles for ultimate color customization)
- Just a touchscreen for UI movement/control
Lastly for those who are Linux users… Scaling. Even with the update I seem to be encountering weird scaling behavior running Renoise either with a desktop environment or when launching Renoise from a TTY using the ‘startx’ command with no desktop environment installed. I’ve tried most of the documented methods for fixing this. Halp pls
oh and the juiciest thing yet… I’m testing USB multichannel audio. Apparently its a kernel module that can be implemented in custom Linux kernels. It would be pretty sick to be able to just plug the thing in and record right into a computer for mixdowns and such or live overdubbing.