09-26-2021, 09:27 AM
Well, in the end, it is of course up to the devs to decide, which way would be the easiest to implement this, if it gets implemented at all at some point in time. The basic idea is just a remote control, that simply works.
And ethernet has the advantage of not wasting a port. But how they will communicate has to be decided by the people who actually know the internals.
Now one could expand on this concept by making this remote controll also be the master of start/stop if an external clock is chosen. Using this function is a macro that simply filters all start/stop commands from all input ports and replaces it with it's own.
And the final step would be, that on that remote control one could choose the origin of the clock. Ports 1-6 or interally, while still always mainting the controll of the transport commands. This would be an additional macro that automagically also filters the clocks on all other input ports, without the need to menu dive. Allows for quick change of the clock source.
Which outputs recieve the clock is of course a subject to their respective filtering rules, no change here.
So we'd have play/pause and stop on that control for transport, one knob for BPM setting (of course only applicable if internal clock is chosen as source) and another knob for selecting the source of the clock (internal, port 1-6, usb..). Could also be dedicated buttons.
That would be rather nifty, wouldn't it?
And ethernet has the advantage of not wasting a port. But how they will communicate has to be decided by the people who actually know the internals.
Now one could expand on this concept by making this remote controll also be the master of start/stop if an external clock is chosen. Using this function is a macro that simply filters all start/stop commands from all input ports and replaces it with it's own.
And the final step would be, that on that remote control one could choose the origin of the clock. Ports 1-6 or interally, while still always mainting the controll of the transport commands. This would be an additional macro that automagically also filters the clocks on all other input ports, without the need to menu dive. Allows for quick change of the clock source.
Which outputs recieve the clock is of course a subject to their respective filtering rules, no change here.
So we'd have play/pause and stop on that control for transport, one knob for BPM setting (of course only applicable if internal clock is chosen as source) and another knob for selecting the source of the clock (internal, port 1-6, usb..). Could also be dedicated buttons.
That would be rather nifty, wouldn't it?