List of planned/requested/intended features

[moinho]

Is there something like a list of planned/requested/intended features for the ongoing development of Mobius, combined with a release plan?

Like, e.g.:
Loop Windowing - 1.42
MIDI Controller Feedback - 1.41
support for additional sampling rates - 1.42
advanced calculus in scripting - not yet planned

Release Plan:
1.41 - 01/10
1.42 - 04/10

Rainer

[Jeff]

Hey Rainer, good to see you here. I have a rough idea of things to work on but it changes depending on bug reports or interesting discussions like the recent one on Shuffle. Basically if people yell loud and often, and it's something I find interesting I'll turn my attention to that for awhile. It would be a good idea to have a list somewhere that people could comment and vote on.

What I can't do is commit to specific dates. I work as often as I can but
it of course depends on my day job and other commitments. Now that the
Mac port is mostly done I'd like to get back into a release rhythm of every 2 to 3 weeks.

Of the things on your list the MIDI controller feedback is the most interesting to me. If I understand correctly it just means that every time a parameter changes in Mobius, I have to look to see if there is a MIDI binding for that parameter and if so send that MIDI event to the configured output device.
I can see how that works for control changes, I guess MIDI note bindings would be ignored, does the Beheringer use notes to light up toggle switches
or is everything a CC?

I'll look at setting up a sticky thread for the development list.

[moinho]

Dear Jeff,

the list you suggested would be fantastic - I believe the vBulletin allows for kind of user polls (seen that at gearslutz), but of course I leave that up to the benevolent dictator. ;)

And I understand well that you will not commit on actual release dates - my suggestion was more in the line of a general "rough guideline" (meaning: if all goes well, controller feedback should be in place by about middle of next year or so...)



Of the things on your list the MIDI controller feedback is the most interesting to me. If I understand correctly it just means that every time a parameter changes in Mobius, I have to look to see if there is a MIDI binding for that parameter and if so send that MIDI event to the configured output device.

Note that I have by no means a deep technical understanding how this is actually implemented. I'm only familiar with doing that for CCs (and while the BCR can send also PCs and I believe notes, I only use it for CCs).

The way I understand it, the application sends the corresponding CC out everytime a parameter with an assigned CC changes - via a MIDI port that is specified for that (I use that a lot in Ableton Live).
As for display: the BCR has both knobs (with a LED ring around them) and buttons with a single LED. For the buttons, the LED lights if the CC value is 127 (I believe), and for the LED rings, there's several configurable display formats - I always use the "clockwise increasing" one.

It may make sense to read up a little about the controller feedback, or at least do MIDI traces of an application that does it (e.g. Ableton Live if you have that), because as I said, my information is more of an (un)educated guess and thus may be completely wrong.