Cheers,
John
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:09 PM, George Frederick Litterst <PianoBench@...> wrote:
Good evening, everyone.
Thank you for your comment, John. I am impressed to find a Home Concert Xtreme user on the iPad who is this advanced with the program at this early stage in the life of the iOS version of this program.HCX is an amazingly deep program on both Macintosh and PC platforms. A lot of that depth is accessible in menus and preference windows that apply to various feature segments of the program.
As you know, the iPad does not provide developers with a traditional way of offering menus and preference-type windows. For this reason, in the development of HCX for iPad, we have proceeded methodically to create new ways of accessing the Mac/PC features that are consistent with Apple's iOS user interface guidelines. At the present time, we have ported all of the functionality of HCX to the iPad, but there are certain features--such as the choice of MIDI trigger for the Special Signal--that have not yet been implemented on this platform.I can assure you that we have some free updates planned and offering a choice of Special Signal is one of them. In the meanwhile, the Special Signal is hardwired to the sostenuto pedal in order to provide Special Signal funcationality. You can, of course, delete the Special Signal if you don't have a sostenuto pedal.I hope that you'll hang with us as we continue to add features.Regards,PianoBenchOn Jul 6, 2011, at 5:47 PM, John Cagle wrote:John.I came across an issue using HCX on my iPad with my Mark III.
HCX appears to only use the Sostenuto pedal as the "Special Signal"
that appears in some of the MIDI files -- HCX stops playing until it
receives the "Special Signal".
The problem with this scheme is that the Mark III doesn't have MIDI
sensing for the Sostenuto pedal -- so you can press it as much as you
want, but HCX will not continue playing the MIDI file.
HCX needs to have an option to allow the user to configure the
"Special Signal" for some other input, like maybe C10?