I recently started using a device with rotary encoders and was disappointed to find that I cannot use binding curves in Cantabile for relative mode encoders like I could with absolute mode encoders (the binding dialog box says “for reverse binding only” next to the curve option). Since @Brad is currently re-engineering bindings, I wonder whether this might be an opportune time to recommend a way to add support for it? I think maybe it could be done without too much hassle as follows:
When a relative mode binding receives a delta Δ to be applied to a target parameter value y, I suggest the new parameter value could be set to f(g(y) + sΔ) where f is the curve function, g is its inverse, and s is the relative scaling factor. I don’t know what function f Cantabile uses for curves, but based on the pictures it draws I suspect inverse g is perhaps just f with the “curve amount” parameter negated, which would hopefully make it quite easy to compute.
This way relative encoders with curves would feel just like absolute encoders with the same curves (i.e., moving an absolute encoder by Δ would change y the same amount as moving a relative encoder by Δ). And dynamically computing inverse g would hopefully avoid storing or tracking any settings or parameter attributes that Cantabile doesn’t already store. (But maybe there are other code complexities that I’ve not considered?)
