[LAD] automation on Linux (modular approach)

[Ralf Mardorf]

Dave Phillips wrote:
> Louigi Verona wrote:
>   
>> Guys, since we started to speak about MIDI standards, I wondered about 
>> an issue I came upon in Linux.
>> It seems that on Linux midi applications differentiate between knobs 
>> and sliders. So if you try to attach a knob of the
>> soft synth to a slider of a midi keyboard, it will not work. On 
>> Windows it does not matter and moving a slider would just
>> move the knob.
>>
>> What is this all about?
>>     
>
> A few moments ago I mapped the sliders on my BCF2000 to the knobs on 
> Nick Dowell's amSynth. They worked perfectly, the knobs on the synth 
> move in sync with the sliders on the BCF.
>
> Best,
>
> dp

There's no difference between knobs and sliders, but as I've written 
before, not every hardware can map a CC to another CC or map a CC to 
short SysEx command. An app is needed for mapping CCs to other CCs and 
mapping CCs to SysEx commands.