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How to set BPM with Surge XT Standalone in Touchscreen Mode
Is there any way to set the BPM in touchscreen mode? I found it next to the virtual keyboard, but when I click on the text box it needs to be edited with a PC keyboard. I was hoping to map it to a control on a midi keyboard or tap tempo ideally with a cc control.
There is no way to edit that without using a type in gesture currently
I think the problem here is that the user is not presented with an on-screen virtual keyboard when attempting to type into the value edit field. This may be down to enabling something for the JUCE widget? Something like this?
EDIT: I can actually confirm this on my Surface. When focusing a text input field, a virtual keyboard should pop up automatically, which in our case it doesn't. For any of our text input fields.
getKeyboardType is only used on iOS and android in JUCE. I think JUCE just doesn't support this in JUCE 7
This discussion leads me to believe this should also work on Windows in tablet mode...
https://forum.juce.com/t/on-screen-keyboard-didnt-show-up-when-focus-on-input-component/20284/14
In sway wayland(raspberry pi OS lite), I enabled lisgd and bound a two finger swipe left gesture to open/close the keyboard. Touch support is nominal in sway. Good enough for now. I am working towards having it sync with Mixxx, eventually... There is that bluez bit, but it should be possible to create a javascript that sends the mtc codes over midi.
I love jamming out on the acid patches to some good techno when it's all synced up.
This discussion leads me to believe this should also work on Windows in tablet mode...
https://forum.juce.com/t/on-screen-keyboard-didnt-show-up-when-focus-on-input-component/20284/14
that thread shows all sorts of stuff like 'run this helper' and none of the things there are in the juce 7 code base that i see. so not sure!
A midi message for tempo makes the most sense to me if it exists; but it seems MTC and midi clock don't have that? But if theres a midi message we should parse we definitely could.
Or maybe an OSC message? @pkstone is there one of those already?
But also : can you use a mini host which has a transport support I wonder?
MIDI Time Code is running constantly (like SMPTE) and is a form of frame-accurate sync. MIDI Clock messaages are also running constantly (usually 24 ticks per quarter note, which is how you can deduce BPM).
This is my target, but it is designed to be modified and scripted in JS.
https://github.com/mixxxdj/mixxx/wiki/MIDI%20clock%20output
Seems like I have seen other midi sync applications and keyboards with bpm knobs built in. Can't use a standard CC controller very well, because they aren't precise enough. DJ controller bpm sliders are very long.
Quarter Notes per time: http://midi.teragonaudio.com/tech/midifile/ppqn.htm