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Agreed. Things work quite well as they are already. Resetting knob values to one or more default presets upon double-tap would be great, also what @mifki could be so kind to change is that when holding one control with one finger, tweaking a second control should not enable zoom mode but change the other control.
Simple example: Playing a key on the virtual keyboard and while playing, tweak the cutoff knob.
Other than that, too much fun and little to complain.
Ya the multi touch zoom thing has messed up my workflow quite a bit , it Kinda forces you to use an external midi controller , def would be awesome to have that switched up
Yes, I mentioned before that multitouch will be fixed.
However, how should I distinguish between operating two controls and pinch-zooming?
That is a good point, if it’s possible I’m not sure unless you can do like a three finger pinch zoom gesture but I don’t know if all iPads support that
That's exactly what I meant.
The thing is that in a busy setup, if you wish to quickly zoom, you might edit controls accidentally, and this should not happen as well. The best idea I have for now is that the user has to take care about where to tap on screen.
Two fingers on blank area: Zoom and pan,
one finger on a control and one finger on a blank area: Nothing happens when pinching
two fingers on controls: Edit them.
A better and prolly less fiddly way might be to tap-hold one control and after about 700ms, zooming is disabled unless a second finger has touched the screen in the meantime.
BTW, found one issue:
Module Tags > Utility > Buttons is shown blank and when I add it to the rack, weird ghost buttons appear, nothing can be edited.
@mifki
my 5 cents for improving UI/UX
Good ideas!
Now the challenge is to find a way to keep it simple, fast, straightforward & clear.
@dendy long tap to move. What if u need to move a Could be too long.
The rest are nice suggestions for sure
Two finger tap on blank/outside area: hide cables by making them transparent. This is how Model 15 operates today.
this works already .. you can move modules without activating special move mode with long tap and then drag ..
@dendy looks good to me. As you point out, tap (in panel background) and move already moves, and there is a move mode as well.
Personally, I think the UI is pretty effective as it is, except for the reset to default which could be a double tap as suggested.
Also I would like the sockets to have a bit more magnetism so that you don't have to be quite so accurate with cable placement.
Otherwise I'm pretty happy with how it handles.
agreed!
UX idea:
double-tap an empty socket to target a connection point and double-tap on a connectable socket to connect a cable between the two.
dragging cables around is is fine, but sometimes if the connection is offscreen, it can be a bit cumbersome. I could imagine a shortcut such as this could make for a faster workflow.
I don't think I've seen this mentioned yet: I'd like some way to bring up a numeric entry box for a knob. It's very difficult otherwise to make specific adjustments using Frequency knobs such as -25% or +50%. As it stands, the only reliable options are -100%, 0%, and +100%. In VCV this is done by right clicking on a knob, but I would be fine with a "cursor tool" option in miRack like the existing ones.
Yes, this has been proposed already, on my todo list.
Good idea too, I'll add this.
A simple lock button in the top bar. When unlocked you can two finger zoom-pinch, when locked zoom-pinch is disabled and you can tweak two or more knobs, sliders, buttons simultaneously.
2 cents here that may worth nothing to some:
Different people, different preferences
How do Long-presses break a workflow?
I find the two-finger-tap popup menu for modules totally fine, but that's why I say that changing and adding new UI behavior is worth to be discussed here and certainly compared to other app's good examples too.
Samplr is a very different beast, it needs no UI zoom because it has very few controls, it needs no cables, it needs nothing module-related because it has a simple, switchable structure ... hard to compare at all IMHO.
Yes It's a complex app and needs in-context sub menus because otherwise modules would get overcrowded with icons (which you'd forget what they mean). Sometimes text menus can bring the fastest workflow in deeper software.
Long presses require user to stop and wait, pop ups hide things and make the rest inactive. An artist keeps it’s tools beside it’s canvas, not onto it.
Side tool bars may reduce screen size but at least leave the working area freeeeeeeee!!!
Yes, for less than a second, just like holding a shift button plus a second tap.
Yes, because if the user wants to make a choice, he has to either choose from the options he wanted to see or just tap outside the pop-up to close it.
Unfortunately, on an iPad, there's no more space available than the screen itself.
Yep, as the top bar already exists anyway, there's a lot more possible for sure.
Well, I can see how this one can be annoying - if you want to do a bunch of operations on different modules, for example, copy-paste presets or change settings after adding several modules to a patch, then touching with two fingers say 10 times is much quicker than holding and waiting for the menu to appear each time. It's not even about the total time, but about having to wait before proceeding multiple times.
Yep
Are there any other music apps that use multitouch gestures for UI actions? All the apps I'm aware of use multiple touches strictly for performance, such as playing keyboard or custom controller or kaos pad. Looking ahead to AUv3 hosting (or being hosted), I think it may be wise to avoid reliance on multitouch gestures to drive the UI. (And of course I keep harping on pencil compatibility -- sorry! But speaking of breaking the flow...)
You mean the new Pencil double tap support?
I'm fine with the short two-fingers tap on a module to open the menu, and I wouldn't mind to see this extended to the same gesture on an empty space.
One example mentioned was playing the on-screen keyboard while adjusting knobs or hitting buttons. Another one is zooming. People have complained about the zoomable UI in JAFCollection but with such huge screens like in modular setups there's no way around it.
I suppose that touches are transparently forwarded to the AUv3 plugin anyway, no matter what DAW, right?
I also suppose that pencil-specific functions can be mapped to the same functions as gestures, like e.g. hard-press to two-fingers-tap.
To open the module browser? If so, other people here mentioned double tap on an empty space to do that...
Anyway, it's clear that different users have different preferences around UI and controls (quite expected). First I will add what everyone agrees with, e.g. double tap to reset which will be in the next update. And then I'll try to process the remaining suggestions and add them as options.
Both fine to me.
Absolutely! And thank you.
This bit, balancing requirements can be much, much harder than the implimentation. Good luck with trying to make sense of all the requests.. We're all here if you need help deciding though.