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TouchOSC rotary needs circular gesture?
I am building a layout with TouchOSC (newer version) and stumbled upon a quite weird thing for such flexible environment: Seems like there is no option to make a rotary or encoder to behave like in 95% of all touch apps: if you drag it up/down, it will change the value. In TouchOSC, you obviously need to do this weird "circular" gesture, i.e. "draw a circle" in the same direction as you want the encoder to rotate. It's a bit cumbersome, never understood this way of implementing encoders but I am surprised I wasn't able to find a way how to adjust this. In e.g. Korg Gadget there is at least an option to select the gesture between circular and linear.
Am I missing something or should I approach the developer?
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@skrat I literally emailed the developer about this a few months ago and got back a reply about how to get the rotary to act linear. This works perfectly once set up but its not the most straightforward. I do wish it was just a checkbox on the rotary to switch between modes, but at least there is an option.
Oh, thanks a lot, pretty cool that it's doable, just as you say: It would make sense to make this an option, since the radial gesture is simply a no-no. It is very rarely used, when I occasionally stumble upon it in some app, it always seems like the developer has zero experience with other music apps and just guess how this kind of UI should be implemented...
I recommend contacting the developer. Direct reports to a developer tend to carry more weight than forum posts.
sure, just did it just wanted to first get the "collective consciousness", letting developers to do their job instead of replying one-by-one to each user.
Yea I think the more folks that contact the dev the more likely it is to get baked in. This one specifically is something I think a lot of new users bounce off of.
I will say I love the new TouchOSC. Its very responsive, easily editable on your iPad and supports splitscreen view. Also the scripting is very powerful. I'm really glad to see there is something to take the place of Lemur for my uses.
Definitely, it's amazing tool. Just building my "extended arm" for Drambo, which will be a replacement for times when I'm too lazy to connect the MIDI controller (which is 99% of the time ). It works either via split screen (Drambo do real split screen too!) or from iPhone if I have it by my hand. This really opens amazing opportunities... If only apps would support OSC with feedback too... OK, stop dreaming
Yea totally, I'm using it for very similar purposes. I built a template that covers most of what I use on my APC 40. Also another one that I use for feedback routings in Drambo. I have Drambo sending its mapped parameters values on preset load so I can use my templates (or controllers) for a number of live-based interactions (and see what the parameter is set to). Its was a pain to set up but now it works really well.
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Thanks for posting. I felt the same about the rotary knobs but was lazy about contacting the developer. Will do so now that I know others are doing the same.