Endless Mode

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About Endless Mode

Good practice

It's useful to put Mode-type Blocks under the Setup Event of the given Control Element. This way the Control Element will behave exactly as you'd want after booting up and this will also save you some characters on the Control Element Event itself for more important stuff.

Change the mode

By default encoders are set to absolute mode. In this mode, encoders act like potentiometers, with a 14bit MIDI value range 0-16383.

With the help of Endless Mode action, you can change the max value to standard 7bit MIDI (0-127) or to relative mode.

There are two modes implemented.

• Absolute
• Relative

Check both, and see which one works best with your DAW or software.

Endless Mode Action

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Velocity

Velocity refers to the rate at which the encoder or endless position changes over time. Velocity measures how quickly the encoder is being turned. This velocity is essential for applications where the speed of rotation needs to be detected and used to influence other parameters.

Sensitivity

Sensitivity refers to how responsive the encoder or endless controller is to changes. It dictates how much change in the encoder or endless controller's position is needed to produce a change in the output or the controlled parameter.

Reference Manual Entry

endless_mode

• shortname:
• How: self:endless_mode() or self:endless_mode(mode)
  • mode: integer, ranging 0-1
• What: This function returns the value of the encoder mode. This is 0 or "absolute mode" by default. When function is given 1 as a value, it will change the encoder to "relative mode". In this mode turning the encoder 'backwards' or counterclockwise will result in the value 63 and turning it 'forwards' or clockwise will result in the value 65 .
• Example: The code self:encoder_mode(1) will change the encoder into relative mode.

endless_velocity

• shortname:
• How: self:endless_velocity() or self:endless_velocity(velocity)
  • velocity: integer, ranging 0...100
• What: This function returns the value of the endless velocity parameter. This is 100 by default. When the function is given a value for the velocity parameter, it will set the endless velocity to that value. Velocity increases the value, depending on the speed of rotation. Setting the velocity parameter to 0 turns off endless velocity completely.
• Example: The code self:endless_velocity(0) will turn off the velocity increase function of the endless. In this case turning the endless, will increase or decrase the value of the value always by 1.

endless_sendsitivity

• How: self:endless_senitivity() or self:endless_senitivity(senitivity)
  • velocity: integer, ranging 0...100
• What: Returns the value of the endless sensitivity, which is 100 by default. When given a value for the sensitivity parameter, it changes the sensitivity of the endless potentiometer. It adjusts how much rotation is needed to send out a value; a lower number means more rotation is required to send the value.
• Example: Set the sensitivity to a new value self:endless_sensitivity(1) > Max amount of rotation to send out the value