How do I turn a device panel knob into a button?

[ere2learn]

Great work on repro device pages,thanks

[killmaster]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

[apoclypse]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

[killmaster]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

Woah, thank you so much for this! Going to try this tomorrow. So glad this can be done.

[killmaster]

Thanks @apoclypse, this worked!

[killmaster]

Thanks @apoclypse, this worked!

I spoke too soon! It only works intermittently. The vast majority of the time, it simply won't map to the macro. I know it sounds weird to say just sometimes, but its true in this case. I reported it to Bitwig just is case its a bug and no user error...

[antic604]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

The problem with this is if you have a list with say 6 entries and you add 6 buttons each modulating the list respectively 1 through 6, then if you have 2 buttons pressed - say 1 and 3 - the values will be added (compounded) and you'll select list item #4. That's why I had to do a workaround in Grid to take maximum, rather than a sum

[apoclypse]

Thanks @apoclypse, this worked!

I spoke too soon! It only works intermittently. The vast majority of the time, it simply won't map to the macro. I know it sounds weird to say just sometimes, but its true in this case. I reported it to Bitwig just is case its a bug and no user error...

You can only assign button macros in Remote Controls view in the Perform (Preset) page not the Device pages so make sure that's not what is going on.

[apoclypse]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

The problem with this is if you have a list with say 6 entries and you add 6 buttons each modulating the list respectively 1 through 6, then if you have 2 buttons pressed - say 1 and 3 - the values will be added (compounded) and you'll select list item #4. That's why I had to do a workaround in Grid to take maximum, rather than a sum

Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to do. If I have multiple buttons assigned all to different parameters how are they compounded? I have the Air Kill EQ effect in my Devices section. I create a Button or for more efficiency Buttons macro to the device and map all the EQ Kills to buttons. Then in Perform (Preset page) view I map the buttons in series. When I press buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 it works as it should. Now if you are mapping buttons to the same parameter but with different values then it makes sense that it should compound the values as you combine button presses. Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean.

[antic604]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

The problem with this is if you have a list with say 6 entries and you add 6 buttons each modulating the list respectively 1 through 6, then if you have 2 buttons pressed - say 1 and 3 - the values will be added (compounded) and you'll select list item #4. That's why I had to do a workaround in Grid to take maximum, rather than a sum

Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to do. If I have multiple buttons assigned all to different parameters how are they compounded? I have the Air Kill EQ effect in my Devices section. I create a Button or for more efficiency Buttons macro to the device and map all the EQ Kills to buttons. Then in Perform (Preset page) view I map the buttons in series. When I press buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 it works as it should. Now if you are mapping buttons to the same parameter but with different values then it makes sense that it should compound the values as you combine button presses. Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean.

@killmaster posted what he wanted in other thread and only came here to say he'd like a "button to behave like a switch" without explaining what it's for

Here's that other thread: viewtopic.php?f=259&t=538596

Yeah, he could've named it better for sure

[killmaster]

Thanks @apoclypse, this worked!

I spoke too soon! It only works intermittently. The vast majority of the time, it simply won't map to the macro. I know it sounds weird to say just sometimes, but its true in this case. I reported it to Bitwig just is case its a bug and no user error...

You can only assign button macros in Remote Controls view in the Perform (Preset) page not the Device pages so make sure that's not what is going on.

yes, that's where I was trying to assign them, thanks...

[killmaster]

Yay! Thanks - now I know this works in principle it should be possible for people to share device panels.

I sure could use buttons in my device pages. How exactly can I do that with non Bitwig plugins? I need a button that is like a switch...

It's pretty straightforward. Create a Button modulator device, click the Modulator assign button and in the plugin just drag that all the way up. When you click the button it will go from 0 to whatever value you've set. Then in the Remote Controls view you map those button modulators to that view. So it's a two step process.

The problem with this is if you have a list with say 6 entries and you add 6 buttons each modulating the list respectively 1 through 6, then if you have 2 buttons pressed - say 1 and 3 - the values will be added (compounded) and you'll select list item #4. That's why I had to do a workaround in Grid to take maximum, rather than a sum

Maybe I don't understand what you are trying to do. If I have multiple buttons assigned all to different parameters how are they compounded? I have the Air Kill EQ effect in my Devices section. I create a Button or for more efficiency Buttons macro to the device and map all the EQ Kills to buttons. Then in Perform (Preset page) view I map the buttons in series. When I press buttons 1, 2, 3, 4 it works as it should. Now if you are mapping buttons to the same parameter but with different values then it makes sense that it should compound the values as you combine button presses. Otherwise I'm not sure what you mean.

@killmaster posted what he wanted in other thread and only came here to say he'd like a "button to behave like a switch" without explaining what it's for

Here's that other thread: viewtopic.php?f=259&t=538596

Yeah, he could've named it better for sure

In actuality, I have 2 uses, thus the 2 thread posts. I just need and want buttons for switches and buttons to jump to a specific value. But yeah, I realize now that I know a little more, I should've posted images and explained things more concretely. For the time being, I'm just going to perform this with a mouse instead of buttons and switches which I figure out how to do that.