VoltageSwitch and Perform / MIDI assign

[Waverley Instruments]

Howdy VM developers. Discovered something new today that I thought might be worth sharing as it needed a workaround to be applied for a few of my modules.

When controlling a VoltageSwitch via Perform Assign or MIDI controller, value changes are continuous vs. discrete, i.e. they will map to a knob, not a button on the Perform panel. I guess this makes sense as a VoltageSwitch can have multiple states.

However, in the case of 2-state switches, it means that from the Perform panel, 100% knob value is on, and anything less than 100% is off. But... if you use a MIDI controller switch assign, a single press (down/up) simply flicks the switch on and off - not ideal, and not what a user would expect.

It would be nice if you could set a VoltageSwitch to "discrete" instead of "continuous" mode, with the default being continuous so as not to break any existing code. Multiple clicks / taps could simply cycle through the states as I think a mouse click currently works. And of course, for a 2-state switch, you get the desired on/off click behaviour in "discrete" mode.

Also, somewhat intriguingly, the number of switch states seems to be inferred by the skin unless I'm missing something!

Anyhoo, the workaround for the behaviour I want for a 2-state VoltageSwitch that can be assigned to a button controller is to overlay a transparent VoltageToggle so the toggle essentially flips the underlying switch. Just to be clear (no pun intended) it's now the toggle that gets mapped / perform-assigned, not the switch

Hope this helps, or if anyone has other ideas / insights, please do let us know.

Thanks, -Rob @ WI

[ColinP]

Agreed.

Although if you use a toggle istead of a two state switch then Perform Assign maps to a button and MIDI Learn can use a keypress and everything works fine so the lesson I take is to only use switches when more than two states are required.