Well, I’ve been working on Ardour but not directly on my SoC project.. finally got around to fixing that whole mixer-strip-element thing that’s been on the table since last year. Things are more open to extensibility now (and a unified bus implementation should appear soon, so we’ll have MIDI busses or even MIDI/audio (instrument) busses). Maybe we’ll see things like this actually happen some time soonish…
It would be nice to figure out a really good MIDI meter (something more clever than just an audio peak meter abused), and a MIDI fader that can work in various ways, or even instrument plugin support, but it’s probably time to get on the actual piano roll editing part of the project and leave that stuff until afterwards.
Kinda ruins my flow though, you know?
Glad to hear you’re back on track (you punny guy!)
I know how you feel about losing your flow. Just remember that as pumped as you are about it, there are legions (okay, maybe just squadrons) of Ardour fans out there wishing you the best.
-B
I did neither and worked on controller sending automation tracks instead :)
Hmm. A MIDI meter could show velocity as peaks and be thin for monophonic material and grow if more notes are hit.
A MIDI fader should send controller 7 by default, I guess. Scaling velocity or switching to another controller number could be options. Then again, scaling velocity is a candidate for a plugin.