Clarify new gp improvement in 5.0.40

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hello everyone

I would like to ask if someone can clarify the next improvement on gp latest release

“You can now prevent widgets from sending out values if the new value would be the same. In conjunction with the appropriate scaling, this mechanism also allows you to use continuous controllers in a stepped mode, effectively thinning incoming MIDI CC messages”

Here we are talking about widgets linked to the same plug-ins and parameters right?

What if a widget is linked to the same parameter but its position is different? And actually, how to set it up? Im not understanding the next sentences in then notes for this improvements.

Please explain as simple as possible cause im not native english speaker

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Suppose you have a widget connected to a parameter in a MIDI Out block that sends CC messages to an external device. There are only 128 CC values available but a widget has a much finer resolution than that so if you were to move the widget just a tiny amount, it would keep sending out the CC value until the widget moved far enough so that the next CC value would be used. So the idea is to prevent those duplicate values from being sent out unnecessarily.

This becomes even more useful if the external device only use 3 values, e.g. 0, 64, 127 – for example to control a Lesley – and you’d like to just send out the CC number once.

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