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Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:26 pm
by George Qualley
I feel stupid asking this question because it seems like there is probably a very obvious answer, but I've looked high and low and I can't seem to figure it out. Is there a way to tie an audio trigger to the tap button of a speed widget? If so, how?

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 4:32 pm
by Massimo Callegari
No as far as I know :)
At the moment audio triggers can only control buttons and sliders widgets.
Would you like to explain the use case of connecting to a tap ? I can't figure it out right now

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Wed Oct 16, 2013 6:27 pm
by George Qualley
Well at least I'm not crazy :) Yes, basically if I want to change something to the beat of a song I would generally tap in the tempo. If I could just assign an audio trigger to that, it would do it automatically!

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 7:59 am
by Jano Svitok
https://github.com/mcallegari/qlcplus/pull/177

I can see the usage here: create a chaser/EFX/etc., and by tap you can sync it with the music (DJ/band/playback).

I implemented it for speed dial taps; I may add also next button of chasers.


NOTES/BUGS:

1. audiotrigger must be created later than the controlled widget, otherwise the workspace won't load properly (because the workspace is loaded linearly, and the widget is not yet created when audiotriggers is loading).

2. when a slider is selected, treshold editboxes should be disabled/hidden since they are not used (just cosmetic).

3. maybe more widgets could be selected to align them with DMX channels/functions (this is really low priority).

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 11:19 am
by Dazey
Thanks, am also interested in being able to do this and spent ages trying to work out if it was possible! Hopefully it there will be a release before I get to use it in anger!
On a similar but related issue, I have an issue with audio levels on OSX, I have the microphone inputs peaking and OSX sees full bars but I get only 30% or so in Qlight, any ideas?

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:21 pm
by Jano Svitok
Another note: we should add a divisor to this tapping to be useful - e.g. the tap would happen every 1/2/4/6/8/etc. beat. Otherwise the speed may be too fast, especially EFX.

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Thu Oct 17, 2013 10:31 pm
by George Qualley
+1 to that

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 12:02 am
by Jano Svitok
Divisor implemented in https://github.com/janosvitok/qlcplus/c ... 0e1c66416d

Note: It seems that the thresholds were not saved.

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 8:40 am
by Massimo Callegari
Merged !

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 4:54 pm
by Massimo Callegari
However, I've got a consideration about this.
Thresholds are static and music dynamic is not. Higher volume will behave differently than lower volume.
So, in the future someone will surely ask for beat detection, which is dynamic...
...and then it will start raining dicks :D

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Fri Oct 18, 2013 7:40 pm
by OddSocks
Beat Detection, Superb. When will we see that ;-)

Think we can do with out the dick rain though :-(

Audio Triggers and Tap

Posted: Mon Oct 21, 2013 11:34 pm
by lcslouis
when using audio triggers though if you specify more than 32 qlc+ crashes. also for sliders it is only saying slider number it isn't showing its name would it be possible to fix?