Keyboard Shortcuts.

[EmilioRoberto]

I hope there is a value in having endusers in this group to ask questions. I promise to try not to be annoying.

Part of what i do is edit video, and I find that keyboard shortcuts are useful. Would it be possible to add keyboard shortcuts to adjust levels? I imagine the use of the software where the player is not right next to the amp and wants to quickly adjust the tone or volume up or down and having certain keys on the keyboard raise and lower the gain, master volume, high, mid and low might be helpful.

[EmilioRoberto]

I see that when I am clicked on a knob, I can raise and lower the level with the up and down keys, but what I am referring to would be more like just the "T" and "G" raise and lower the main volume etc.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

Thanks, I'm sure it's possible, interesting idea.

The audio controls UI knob is a component I didn't write, so the current keyboard controls come without any effort from me.

[crick616]

I'll add my vote for keyboard shortcuts. I'm a dinosaur IT guy who learned computers on CP/M (you might have to look that up... most people have never heard of it) long before mice, touchpads, Windows, etc. I strive to learn keyboard shortcuts in all software in order to keep my fingers where they belong - on the keyboard. And I'm usually faster than any mouser because of it.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

I've actually used a version of CP/M on an Amstrad CPC6128, it was probably 35 years ago though :)

So for keyboard shortcuts, what should they be and what should they do?

[crick616]

Wow,,, a fellow dinosaur! There aren't many of us left since the meteor. OK, I'm just spitballing ideas here. I would like to see something like combo-key shortcuts to select a particular control and then after selecting it, use the up/down arrow keys to adjust that control (and then followed by ESC to de-select the control).

Controls could be selected by:
Bass: ctl-B
Mid: ctl-M
Treble: ctl-T
Mod: ctl-C (would have chosen "M"od but it was already taken by "M"id, so "C"horus or "F"lange)
Delay: ctl-D
Reverb: ctl-R
Other shortcuts...
Select Preset 1: ctl-1 Save current settings to Preset 1: alt-1 (or maybe ctl-alt-1 to minimize chance of accidental over-write)
Select Preset 2: ctl-2 Save current settings to Preset 2: alt-2 "
Select Preset 3: ctl-3 Save current settings to Preset 3: alt-3 "
Select Preset 4: ctl-4 Save current settings to Preset 4: alt-4 "

[crick616]

Today I installed your app and spent some quality time with it. I really like the display and visibility of the settings. I'm now rethinking my desire for the shortcuts I mentioned yesterday. The ease of using your app as designed is very good and I don't know if I would even use the shortcuts.

The things I would hope to see added are controls for Gain, Master, Output, Music Volume, and perhaps Tap. Also, will there eventually be a way to save settings to presets 1-4?

I absolutely prefer using your PC app instead of my phone or tablet. It's much easier to see and control with a laptop and I (fortunately) have one I can dedicate to this purpose. This is EXACTLY what I hoped for. Thank you for developing it.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

Thanks, glad you like it! This is what the (currently hidden because it's not wired up) device controls section looks like:

Note that the amp level output control (the real volume control) and the music volume control are both not automated via bluetooth so you can only turn those manually, you can adjust bluetooth audio by turning up your PC volume though.

I will eventually add the option to store a preset to a hardware channel I just haven't gotten around to that yet. As a workaround you can just long-press the hardware channel button on the amp itself to store what you currently have.

[foebyeahright]

I had a similar Idea...but for a different reason:
I want to try to build a cheap wired footcontroller out of an old keyboard. Strip it of all keys but 4 and then add big "stompplates" to these 4 keys for channel selection. Since this is a complete different use of "hotkeys" i think it would be nice to user-customize these.. so i can spread the keys I need nicely across the keyboard...

[lavabyrd]

Personally I haven't had time but I'm hoping to get to it this weekend!

[foebyeahright]

Both good news though :)

[foebyeahright]

...been a while... Just wondering if any progress has been made... Got a week off the week after next week and i intend to mess around with sparky a bit :D

[webprofusion-chrisc]

@foebyeahright not from me, I've been heads down with work stuff. The beauty of open source is that we all get to watch code grow old together :) I'm sure I'll get back into this but it could be weeks or months.

[foebyeahright]

Thanks for the info :)

[jhilleary]

This is great! I have an Airstep Lite pedal with the ability to map to any keyboard inputs via BT MIDI, so this would make it possible to finally use a footswitch for the presets and other effects without modding!

[webprofusion-chrisc]

It probably depends what mechanism you want to use to switch, is it a midi pedal or something that acts like a (computer) keyboard? Midi controller is probably easier to do in the background.

[foebyeahright]

Computer Keyboard would be my nr. One choice....actually i am still hoping for the hotkeyimplementation to soundshed :D

[webprofusion-chrisc]

The problem with keyboard is that the foreground app gets the input, so if soundshed wasn't the foreground app then the keystrokes would go to the other app instead. There are ways around that (global hotkeys) but they're potentially complex and so they're a little unlikely to happen.

[foebyeahright]

Ahhh... I see the troubles....well... any chance to get hotkeys to soundshed anyway? Would love to see that :)

[lavabyrd]

👋🏻 Life's been a little mad for me so I haven't gotten near this but i think i may be able to do system wide hotkeys as well as in-app but I don't have an ETA for when that may be. It absolutely won't be this week anyway I'm afraid

[geppo1988]

Hi all :) news about this? Was it integrated somehow the channel selection using keystrokes? Thanks!!!

[webprofusion-chrisc]

Hi, no I haven't been working on this, it would be great if we could encourage more developers to get involved. I've not even been playing guitar recently :)

[webprofusion-chrisc]

Now working on this and midi mapping at the same time.

[webprofusion-chrisc]

The first draft of a feature for input mappings has now been added. This allows midi and (computer) keyboard inputs to be mapped to amp channel selections. Currently keys 1-4 are mapped to amp channels, Midi notes C3 to F3 are also mapped to channels. A learn function (to train different keys/inputs) is still planned.

[gfm2000]

I'm new to GitHub and this app, so please forgive any stuff-ups I make here. I just stumbled across this app and it is amazing. I am visually impaired and the Spark app on mobile is pretty useless to me (and PG weren't really interested in hearing about it's lack of accessibility).
This app, for the most part, is the perfect companion for the amp. Only things that aren't accessible with my screenreader are the adjustment controls, but I'm okay with that (though it would be nice to have them readable!).
As far as keyboard shortcuts go, what would be great is if the effects can have shortcuts assigned to them (as mentioned in a previous post). I bought a USB footswitch for my Boss Katana and am doing the same thing using an app on Android. Being able to toggle boosters and mods with the tap of a foot (or finger on a keyboard) would be ideal. If this is already there, then I must have missed it.
Keep up the great work. This app has made my whole Spark experience more usable (and enjoyable!).

[geppo1988]

Thanks that awesome....we can build our pedalboard modifying a 3 euro keyboard now :) Il lun 2 ago 2021, 13:41 Christopher Cook ***@***.***> ha scritto:

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