Timed transition feature request

[rcf56]

I'd love to be able to transition between two midi cc values over a user variable slew time; on the press of a footswitch, it would slide from values 0 to 127 over the course of 10 seconds, for example. This feature would add so much more to an already very useful product. Would it be difficult to implement in the software?

[Rob]

I'm pretty sure I understand what your after, but it would be very useful if you could explain some use cases for this functionality.

Rob

[rcf56]

Thanks Rob. I'm using ME with an iPad and typically I would have two or three separate parallel channels of effects apps loaded into AUM; reverbs, granular effects, karplus strong etc. I already use ME to switch individual AUM channels on and off, but for more ambient work it would be nice if I could set a time value in the ME controller app, so that when the channel is off and I pressed the ME configured footwitch, it slowly went from midi cc value 0 (AUM channel off) to 96 (or whatever final AUM channel level is chosen). An expression pedal is the simple solution, but an auto slewed cc value change would give much smoother slow transitions between values, and I could use two footswitches in place of the one trs expression pedal.

In other words, rather than switching channels between their on and off states, I could autofade a channel in or out, slowly (user variable time) and with just one press of a button or footswitch. A slow slewed auto transition between two midi cc values sounds like it might be a more extreme version of the expression pedal/hi-hat 'smoothing' parameter?