Bluetoothhas never been so easy! The Wet Sounds Bluetooth controller has the ability to pause, play, track forward, track backwards and adjust volume up & down of your Bluetooth device. All from the simple and easy to use single knob design!
There are a number of hands-free door openers which either operate a knob or replace a knob together. These are typically used by people in wheelchairs. However, they tend to be pretty expensive, the least of them are around a $1500 range. And they move The door very slowly for safety reasons, which is often annoying to people who are ambulatory.
Most US building codes will require that if the building is a place where people sleep, and the power goes out, the electronic lock must be able to be opened from the inside without requiring a second device or a key or key card.
OK, having said all that, there are people who put together their own inexpensive door strikes that are controllable by smartthings. Those will work for a knob. However, they may either not be to code or might leave your door unlocked if the power fails.
Do you want something that actually turns the knob or just unlocks it? A door strike will work for unlocking. You use any door knob you want, you replace the other part, the part where the latch goes into the doorframe. And that is locked/unlocked electronically.
On the spec page of the link provided, at the very bottom, it says GarageBand on iOS is not supported, so perhaps not. Of course, sometimes companies list that things are not supported when in fact they are, so perhaps someone with the unit can let us know for sure.
I'm looking for a really clean-lined set of faders. Minimal by design. I like the ones on Slate + Ash, The 16N, but they're not available right now, and out of stock at the moment. Anything cheaper, but still minimal in design? I'd be happy with 8 faders, in a minimal black or white case.
The Bluetooth functions can be programmed on the unit and mapped in IOS like any Bluetooth controller. I think the compatibility refers to the USB DAW modes, of which GarageBand is one, these are configured for Desktop not iOS. There is also the option to use it over USB with your own assignments.
I came across it earlier. It looks interesting, for sure, and the bluetooth option is a sweetener. I previously used a Korg NanoKontrol Studio, but sold it, I really didn't need so much. It's just the faders I'm after. Nice it can be used over USB too.
Pots (potentiometers) have a fixed range of travel and send a voltage within fixed range according to their position. This is then translated by a microcontroller into MIDI values from 0 to 127 typically.
Encoders send a repeating signal as they're turned, positive in one direction, and negative in the other. This is translated by a microcontroller as something like +1 for clockwise and -1 for counter clockwise, though this can vary. The software then translates this into increasing or decreasing the value of whatever it is controlling.
Feedback isn't used to determine what the encoder is sending. Feedback is used to update the hardware controller's display of the value for that knob if it has a way of doing so. For instance some controllers have a LED ring that reflects the value in the software, or, this could be displayed on a LCD readout.
@wim said:
Pots (potentiometers) have a fixed range of travel and send a voltage within fixed range according to their position. This is then translated by a microcontroller into MIDI values from 0 to 127 typically.
See some threads here - from what I remember, very few apps apart from the odd exception will actually fedd back to the encoder controller (some Sinan apps are exceptions, Fundamental 2 for example) so you will likely be wasting your money on these for iOS, even though they sound cool. So for most work flows where you are saving sessions in aum and your sessions have a lot of variety, and want to open those back up, using any kind of controller started to feel like a waste of time for me, I'd rather just use the touchscreen, except maybe for very simple things like controlling volume faders, and even then you're gonna have to make sure that your faders on the controller are set up right every time you open an aum session. Same goes btw for virtual controllers - let's say you use sqsl Temp or Latch, even when they get presets systems - which is looking likely! - unless you remember to resave your preset exactly at the same of any AUM jam you want to recall, you're going to have problems with knobs in aum being out of sync with the sequencer, and unless you initially go through and align everything, you'll get sudden and possibly unpleasantly fast and unmusical results when you open an old session you haven't saved exactly as it was left and start tweaking controller slides / knobs etc. But at least with a preset system you'll have that option, so all you'll need to do is leave a session in the state you next want it to start at and remember to save a preset
Tldr : controllers are better in theory currently than in practise. You can get a lovely fader unit that feels fantastic to the touch, but it mostly won't give you the same experience as working with knobs directly in an app, if using regular low res midi - you may hear stepping etc when changing values. So on this level I understand why some people just prefer hardware
This is why encoders can be more useful than faders or pots. At least with encoders you know that at any time turning clockwise will increase and counter-clockwise will decrease the control. The software has to support encoders however, and that is rare.
I agree that aside from having fun noodling, the problems mentioned above make me feel like it's not very worthwhile to use a hardware controller when returning to saved projects. Apps that support "pickup mode" are a help. At least then, the control doesn't engage until you cross the existing setting. So, if a control is at cc value 73, and your controller knob is at 40, nothing will change until that knob moves to value 74.
Honourable feedback capable mentions due then to the mighty Turnado and also QNTM:KNTRL V2 by @soundtemple, the latter a set of Mozaic scripts that lets you use encoders to control more or less anything in a multi synth AUM session.
@wim said:
This is why encoders can be more useful than faders or pots. At least with encoders you know that at any time turning clockwise will increase and counter-clockwise will decrease the control. The software has to support encoders however, and that is rare.
You can also convert any other USB MIDI class compliant controller (like the cheap KORG NanoKontrol with 8 faders and more buttons) with a Yamaha UD-BT01 or a CME WIDI Jack plus adapters and a USB powerbank.
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