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Loopy controller mute/solo
I’m using LP as a controller, not as an audio recorder.
Is there a way to set up a set of buttons so that mute/solo work in the way you’d expect?
In Surface Builder, you can assign buttons to groups, within which they’re mutually exclusive. I don’t see a way to do that in LP, so that pressing one button automatically deselects another, or a whole set of others. Just using widget/toggle makes the targets toggle, so you wind up turning them on and off.
In order to be completely functional with AUM, the rules would have to be something like this:
Mute 1: Toggle.
On, cc X1 to ch1.
Off, cc X2 to ch1.
Mute 2: Toggle.
On, cc X1 to ch2.
Off, cc X2 to ch2.
Etc…
Solo1: Toggle.
On, cc Y1 to ch1, unset Mute 1, unset all other Solos.
Preferably, do not solo by muting all other channels.
Solo2: Toggle.
On, cc Y1 to ch2, unset Mute 2, unset all other Solos.
Rules like “unset this other thing” aren’t the same as “toggle this other thing.” And you’d think that maybe you could send the “off” MIDI value to a target, but that doesn’t work. In LP, if your target is a widget, you don’t send MIDI to it, you execute one of its actions, and a toggle doesn’t have an “unset” action.
So. Just a wee bit head-scratchy. Has anyone set this up properly?
Comments
@garden : use a radio button group widget with state feedback set to disabled and set select or select/de-select actions as needed. Don’t toggle the states. Make sure to explicitly set the desired state in the select and deselect stages
Hmmm. Is there any way to lay out the grid widget (I don’t see a “group” widget) horizontally?
It would permit a conventional mixer control setup.
My mistake. I should said Radio Buttons not Radio Button group. Button grids don't work for for this.
You need Radio Buttons. It is the third option. You can drag any of the widgets in that set to appear as a row or column.
Oooooh, look at that. I didn’t realize the grid could be squooshed. Very nice. Thanks :-)
You seem to have some spacing between the little buttons on that layout. Are they a grid, and if so, how did you implement that? Spacing seems to be adjacent by default.