Feature request, Report value changes without notes in midi editor

[jprykiel]

Hi devs.
In Osara configuration, report midi notes in MIDI editor can be toggled. When on, everything is spoken, and went off, nothing.
If possible, I would like to have something in between, which doesn't speak notes, because they can already be heard, but reports value changes like velocity, gate time and position. They can be heard to, but not as clearly with a patch with a slow attack for example, and it would be handy to know where you are, sometimes.
If not possible, could a shortcut to toddle report midi notes be added?
Cheers,
JPR

[ScottChesworth]

We already have config options for position and notes separately, along with actions to toggle, enable or disable them on the fly. Search the MIDI Editor section of the actions list for OSARA to see all the stuff that can be bound.
If there's feedback that can't be had with any combination of those choices, give us some examples of the rports you'd like to hear and explain why they'd be useful. We'll see what we can do once there's a use case pinned down.

[jprykiel]

Okay Scott. I thought all could be found in the Osara configuration dialog (CTRL+F12. But I'll look for the actions in question.
Cheers.

[jprykiel]

@ScottChesworth wrote 👍 We already have config options for position and notes separately, along with actions to toggle, enable or disable them on the fly.
Yes, in fact they mirror toggles also present in the Osara configuration dialogue.
So let me explain what I would like to have in addition.
Whilst reporting notes is off, as I can already hear them being played and I don't need to have them spoken, I would like Osara to report changes in notes velocity, duration, and position. As I was saying before, I can also hear them, but sometimes they need to be set to precise values where hearing does not suffice.
Typically, I would move through notes or chords, hear them play with no speech, but here my screenreader speak each change I would make to these notes velocity, duration or position, which would be handy if I needed to set 1 of these 2 precise values, like a series of notes increasing velocity or duration, by steps of 5…
It's just an idea, a small element of comfort you know, nothing I couldn't live without.
I posted this to RWP in the 1st place to see if other users would be interested, it didn't seem to be the case, so never mind if you can't do it.
Cheers.

[ScottChesworth]

Gotcha. Just made a quick mock up of how that would be with custom actions here and I can see it's useful. Implementing it would mostly be restucturing code we've already got, I'll fiddle with that when I can find some time. Need to figure out how we present the choices in OSARA Config without making those settings confusing.

[jprykiel]

Thanks Scott.Well, we definitely don’t need one checkbox for velocity, one for duration, and one for note position.Since we have one for Notes, and one for position, we could have another one called report change in note properties?Cheers. Le 18 sept. 2025 à 22:56, ScottChesworth ***@***.***> a écrit :ScottChesworth left a comment (jcsteh/osara#1309) Gotcha. Just made a quick mock up of how that would be with custom actions here and I can see it's useful. Implementing it would mostly be restucturing code we've already got, I'll fiddle with that when I can find some time. Need to figure out how we present the choices in OSARA Config without making those settings confusing. —Reply to this email directly, view it on GitHub, or unsubscribe.You are receiving this because you authored the thread.Message ID: ***@***.***>

[jprykiel]

Great Scott.
Well, we definitely don't need one checkbox for each, velocity, duration, and note position. Maybe one more checkbox saying something like, report note properties change?
Cheers.