Some items to think about
Posted: 11 Nov 2014, 22:34
Hi,
after some initial troubles CopperPhil help me to solve I'd like to post some thought about Copperlan manager improvement. Some are already discussed here but I'd like to summarize my hints all in this mail.
I think Copperlan manager is really helpful especially with Elyseum AL-88 interfaces, but I think we need some more tweaking to get the best.
1. First of all the most requested feature please let us rename the Vmidi port... without this is really a mess managing more than 4 channels, and I have 3 AL-88c 24 channels to address.
2. Please let us choose how many port we wanna use for each midi interface, like the Vmidi ports on Computer, maybe one by one and not in multiple bunch.
3. Let us choose how many midi channels for each port we will use, usually having multiple port interfaces lead us to use one channel per port except for multitimbral synth,
4. The overview page seems cool if you ha few items but if you try to manage 24 channels with the wiring diagram you got a complete disaster, no way to understand where the data flow... especially because every time you change a channel drop setting view all the other square move around...aaaargghhh!!! help us!!! Could I suggest a less magic but more effective view using a stander matrix view? Maybe you could use it also for assigning the path... but I know it could became huge...and so its time for point 5...
5. Connect page ok not bad but I would like to see the port name of the AL-88c not only when I want to connect it but also when I want to check my connection, usually you got only the interface name and not the channel interface name. Please let us see the channel interface connected.
Less important but useful:
6. Already requested somewhere in the forum, a midi monitor
7. a midi transformer for transposing, chord making and so on
9. A midi switcher for switching the snapshot assigning it to a midi controller.
Lat but not least a question/suggestion I can't understand if snapshots are saved on the computer or are broadcast on each computer with copperlan installed, I think the second one should be a great idea.
I think that for now it could be enough, hope being helpful, cheers, Eriberto
after some initial troubles CopperPhil help me to solve I'd like to post some thought about Copperlan manager improvement. Some are already discussed here but I'd like to summarize my hints all in this mail.
I think Copperlan manager is really helpful especially with Elyseum AL-88 interfaces, but I think we need some more tweaking to get the best.
1. First of all the most requested feature please let us rename the Vmidi port... without this is really a mess managing more than 4 channels, and I have 3 AL-88c 24 channels to address.
2. Please let us choose how many port we wanna use for each midi interface, like the Vmidi ports on Computer, maybe one by one and not in multiple bunch.
3. Let us choose how many midi channels for each port we will use, usually having multiple port interfaces lead us to use one channel per port except for multitimbral synth,
4. The overview page seems cool if you ha few items but if you try to manage 24 channels with the wiring diagram you got a complete disaster, no way to understand where the data flow... especially because every time you change a channel drop setting view all the other square move around...aaaargghhh!!! help us!!! Could I suggest a less magic but more effective view using a stander matrix view? Maybe you could use it also for assigning the path... but I know it could became huge...and so its time for point 5...
5. Connect page ok not bad but I would like to see the port name of the AL-88c not only when I want to connect it but also when I want to check my connection, usually you got only the interface name and not the channel interface name. Please let us see the channel interface connected.
Less important but useful:
6. Already requested somewhere in the forum, a midi monitor
7. a midi transformer for transposing, chord making and so on
9. A midi switcher for switching the snapshot assigning it to a midi controller.
Lat but not least a question/suggestion I can't understand if snapshots are saved on the computer or are broadcast on each computer with copperlan installed, I think the second one should be a great idea.
I think that for now it could be enough, hope being helpful, cheers, Eriberto