I'm happy to announce a new release of Librekontrol! Librekontrol is a programmable controller editor for GNU/Linux. This is primarily a bugfix release, but a couple new features made their way in.
Please note that this should be considered alpha software. Assume that you might encounter bugs and that the software might fail spectacularly if you try to do something particularly clever with it. It's certainly ready to be tested and played around with, and indeed, you can already start using it regularly for everyday projects.
Note that the code also hasn't seen any real optimization effort, so latency will not be ideal if you're using it to configure a device that you will play in real-time.
Of course, all of these problems would make great entry points into helping out with Librekontrol's development. Find a bug, zap it, and share your fix for the greater good!
Please also consider helping out by completing the existing device definitions if you own any of them (all devices from Native Instruments and by contributing new device definitions.
Download Librekontrol 0.2.1 [sig]
An apparently inconsequential (but nevertheless annoying) compilation error was resolved.
Updating LED brightness values for velocity sensitive pads on the
Maschine leads to a perceived slowdown. The ALSA function
snd_ctl_elem_write appears to be the culprit: new EV_ABS (absolute)
events are generated before the write operation (updating the LED
state) can complete, leading to a queue of writes. Since, e.g for the
Maschine, this involves rescaling input values (0 to 4096) to the LED
range of 0 to 63, we are potentially writing the same value
repeatedly. By filtering out same-value writes, we can significantly
reduce the number of writes and thereby increase perceived
performance.