I was thinking along this line: send a midi message from your DAW to the pad that will change the display - e.g. to reflect different parts of a song or so... not sure whether this clears it up...flycycle wrote:Not sure what you mean by 'address the display by midi'?

one could specify in a config file, which midi message refers to which display message - midi clock would not be needed, and custom metronome display would be possible.
I was thinking about this because I work a lot with odd meters and meter changes in my music, and the metronome of most DAWs is very limited in terms of beat-grouping. E.g., in live, a 6/8 meter is always "Click-tak-tak-tak-tak-tak" instead of "Click-tak-tak-Tok-tak-tak", which would be musically correct most of the time. Not to speak of 5/4, 7/8 or anything like that...
In my pre-farmpad-aera (wow - how did I survive back then?), I used to program my own visual metronome clips as midi notes sent to the pads of the pK. If I could do the same with the display, my pads would be free to reflect other information than the metronome...
Almost...flycycle wrote:For shift functions and sub-scenes, I think I'm going to add in more ways of selecting scenes - so holding a switch to show a scene temporarily, or having switches that directly access a specific scene. I think that would cover what you're suggesting?

I would find it very practical to switch scenes only for a selected group of pads/switches and leave the rest of them in the current scene to keep the visual feedback running.
Selecting a sub-scene by direct access or holding a switch would then only affect a certain area of the padKontrol - you know what I mean?
I'm so excited about this software that I probably post way too much and ask for too many things at once, please forgive me if that's the case!

As for the GUI, I'm a real beginner at programming. But I once had a look at REALBasic, an easy visual development surrounding - just downloading the demo again - last time i used it was in 2003... *g*
Maybe that'll do the job...
Thank you once again for the great work!
Raphael