I have been toying with a proof of concept for creating widget panels for editing synth parameters from the front panel. Is there a way to have widgets adjust the minimum and maximum values of a widget and to set the reverse button? Maybe through scripting? (Not my strong suit.)
A little background… I play EWI and would like to map breath (cc2) to multiple synth parameters, but I don’t always want to sweep the full value scale. Sometimes I will map it sweeping the value in downward direction.
I have run into a few synths whose midi mod matrix don’t offer value curves, value min, max or direction.
Instead of popping in and out of the VST’s UI and the widget’s value editor, I was hoping to create a set of widgets within a rackspace to edit these values.
Reviving this thread for a moment:
How would one go about scripting the change of the Max and Min values of a widget?
I haven’t found an obvious way to do this (and thinking there probably should be one).
E.g. Let’s say I have a dial widget and two radio buttons. In the script, I would want the activation of each radio button to represent a change in the Max scaled value of the dial widget so that, say, button 1 changes it to Max of 80 and button 2 changes it to Max of 60.
While that does technically address the example I presented, it doesn’t actually change the Max and Min values of a single widget. It constrains the upper range via movement of a second widget, but that first widget can still be moved manually outside the desired range. Also, if you wanted to define a lower range as well, the script would become more complex and require yet another widget.
At the risk of further showing my ignorance, would it work to have two widgets with with the different max/min values you want and connected it to another widget (or maybe two group widgets) that allow you to bypass/unbypass so you can select which one is effective an any one time? [Fee free to ignore].
It took me a second to see what you had going on and how to apply it to my question and I think this could work for my needs. I would just need to edit to 1st v_scale in the IF statement by hand in the script itself to set the top point.
Unless you can you think of a way to add a third knob that would set the value of the multiplier in the script?
Here is what I have come up with after flushing this out a bit more. Thank you pianopaul, you really pointed me in the right direction and I learned a lot today!! I guess this old dog can learn some new tricks!
I have attached a Gig file if you are interested in seeing what I ended up doing.
There are 5 sub panels that can be controlled by a single input CC and independently scaled for minimum value and range. In the attached Gig file I reversed the output on one widget so that it scales downward. I still want to explore a way to turn on reverse scaling with a widget button, but this will cover most of my needs for now.
