I’ve just started trialing Cantabile (loving it) and I too need some way of grouping a visual indication of the changing status of various different parameters (across different plugins) in one place on the screen. I’m playing around with a little Behringer X-touch mini and the rotary encoders actually work very well with Cantabile - 2-way communication works really well and the LED rings around the encoders show the current status.
But it’s not particularly easy to see what’s going on at a glance and you need somehow to label up the various encoders etc. What would be really nice is if the encoders poked through a flat panel screen on which a fully-fledged GUI was being displayed. That way you could have whatever you wanted, including for instance a numerical (as well as graphical) readout of each encoder’s current value. And when you switched from one context (eg song) to another, any changes in the function of the encoders could be displayed automatically. Someone’s going to say why not go the whole hog and have a full VR setup but I can’t play the piano with gloves on.
So, short of pipe dreams like the above what’s the best bet? I’ll try out the two suggestions in this thread so far - thanks for those - and report back. And if anyone has any other ideas I’d be really interested. Of course some native support for this sort of thing in Cantabile would be wonderful, and judging by the way the rest of the program’s been put together would work beautifully. But it sounds like Brad’s pretty busy just now with all the technology update stuff so I’ll not hold my breath.
Cheers, Ian.