Presets, Effects and LEDs

[madejm]

Hi @Builty,
I looked at your new implementation of external IO expander and it looks very promising! I hope we will get a working Tap Tempo feature soon too 😄

Would it be possible for the SX1509 to control LEDs? They could signal currently selected preset and whether given effect is switched on or off. Also for future tap tempo that would be a great indicator too 😎

Effect switching is an amazing feature, thank you for this.
Although the web configuration for effects switching looks very rough (you need to lookup the values when you want to change them), I though it might use some improvements. When I find some time I'll share a PR 😉

Also, maybe we could start a Tonex One Controller DIY Community on Discord? People could share their projects, 3D print designs and help each other with issues. It would be much better than only Github discussions, and people asking for help on facebook groups.

[Builty]

Hi. Yes I am getting lots of requests about the tap tempo, will be looking into it over the next few days.

The SX1509 chip itself is capable of driving leds. I think the bigger issue for me will be configuration. Some people might want 16 switches and no leds, and another might way 8 and 8. or someone else might want 16 switches and 16 leds (it is possible to run dual SX1509.)

I'm running into more problems in this area (configuration) due to the number of footswitches and the huge variance in how people want to use them.
I'm going to think about some options but also wide open to ideas.

For the web config, I wanted to make it as versatile as possible, so did the Midi CC value. I did think about a select with all the possible parameters in it, but that is more than 100 so I'm not sure how practical that is. Maybe there is a better way (again open to ideas.) I'm also not a web programmer so that side is really painful for me.
I've possibly gone down the wrong path here for another reason. I've found a bug that when you change presets, its possible that the effect change could take two presses, as the toggling doesn't take into account the current effect state.
It's not trivial though to relate the Midi CC value and midi values themselves directly to the parameters. Different index and different scaling.
Maybe the values should be the raw float values, that would help.

As far as Discord, I've never used it before. I'm not against the idea of some better discussions medium though. At the moment I'm getting hammered every day through Facebook, Youtube and here and am struggling a little to keep up. Not sure if having Discord also would be helpful or just more work.

[simpltone]

The idea of external IO expander with led is great!

Would be possible if using dual SX1509; one is for switches only, another one is for the leds. No matter how many switches (up to 16), if we want to have the leds, it must be using another SX1509.

Thank you @Builty
You have done a great work! Bless you!

[Builty]

Thank you. It would be possible to use 2 x SX1509, with the second one for leds.
I guess though some people would prefer the have some switches and some leds on the same SX1509, which then makes it more complicated for configuration.

I am trying to finish off some other big changes, and after I can look more at these options.

[trol22]

현재 소프트웨어적으로 SX1509 2개 사용해서 led 구현 가능 한건가요? 아직 개발 예정 인가요? 구현가능 실행 방법을 자세히 알려주시면 고맙겠습니다.
감사합니다.

[Builty]

Hi. At the moment, I don't have any support for leds. There have been some requests, but I have quite a few jobs to get through at the moment.