It looks really great. I would love to learn more about motor faders. I'm looking into this topic myself and the projects I find online just seem to magically make motorfaders work or they don't use them because you hardly find any real information how the feedback from the DAW really works (besides the specific control protocols some manufacturers use). Is there a way to integrate them without using a specific protocol like Mackie Control? Some people seem to make it work using Arduinos but nobody really wants to talk about the specifics I feel like :D really interesting topic. I could see myself being interested in a version with motorfaders.
Hi cobralyoner, thanks for your message. The problem with the motorized faders is twofold. First, MIDI doesn't work with motorized faders - because there is no feedback from DAWs to provide location info for the faders. Second, it's super expensive, and complicated to implement, not only because the motorized faders themselves are expensive, but because in order to implement them, you have to use HUI or Mackie Control language - which is not well referenced. It's actually a proprietary protocol you have to hack to figure out (although the info is out there if you search for it). One thing you can do to provide some control-surface like functions to MIDI faders is use a MIDI translation software, like what they sell at bome.com In any case, thanks for your kind words, and all the best :)
It looks really great. I would love to learn more about motor faders. I'm looking into this topic myself and the projects I find online just seem to magically make motorfaders work or they don't use them because you hardly find any real information how the feedback from the DAW really works (besides the specific control protocols some manufacturers use). Is there a way to integrate them without using a specific protocol like Mackie Control? Some people seem to make it work using Arduinos but nobody really wants to talk about the specifics I feel like :D really interesting topic. I could see myself being interested in a version with motorfaders.
Hi cobralyoner, thanks for your message. The problem with the motorized faders is twofold.
First, MIDI doesn't work with motorized faders - because there is no feedback from DAWs to provide location info for the faders.
Second, it's super expensive, and complicated to implement, not only because the motorized faders themselves are expensive, but because in order to implement them, you have to use HUI or Mackie Control language - which is not well referenced. It's actually a proprietary protocol you have to hack to figure out (although the info is out there if you search for it).
One thing you can do to provide some control-surface like functions to MIDI faders is use a MIDI translation software, like what they sell at bome.com
In any case, thanks for your kind words, and all the best :)