Hi Maarten,
While there are tons of improvements in the recent versions there are still some things that are bugging me for some time now and to that I would like to come back to:
1. The Fader-start-enabled cues still start running on startup of Cuelux, which I consider a major annoyance as I have explained in another thread (
http://www.visualproductions.nl/forum/index.php?topic=988.0).
2. I still experience some stray MIDI messages belonging to the feedback machanism that Cuelux sends on startup and while changing the playback button banks. In the the most recent version (b11) the situation has apparently somewhat improved as the playback fader banks are almost not affected anymore.
To explain my setup: I have made a mapping for a Livid Ohm64 controller. This thing has faders with rotary controllers, some buttons that correspond to the faders (e.g. used as flash buttons) and a large 8x8 button matrix. The buttons have LEDs that can be controlled by the Cuelux feedback mechanism which is working great 95% of the time. I use the LEDs to indicate active cues or active fader/playback button pages: e.g. on the top row of the button matrix I can directly select the playback button bank with one of the 8 buttons. The next row controls the cues of the selected playback bank, so a cue can be started by pressing the button and the LED lights up to reflect that this cue is running. When switching through the playback button banks this row always changes LEDs and I can always see at one glance which cues are active. (The third and fourth row work the same, just for the fader banks).
First problem: When starting up Cuelux with no cues running always the same 4 LEDs that reflect active cues are ON. This number of LEDs has dramatically decreased during the last versions of Cuelux. I remember about 3 versions ago this was a full christmas tree, so the general situation has improved a lot but we are still not there. Same goes for the
Second problem, which is in my case the much more serious problem: When switching playback button banks the way as explained above (or directly in the software), Cuelux sends feedback messages for cues (or better cue slots in the banks) that are definitely not running, endling up in LEDs ON when there is no corresponding active cue. This makes it impossible to control cues just with the controller using the playback buttons since the feedback is a total mess and I have no chance to know which cue is actually running and which is not. I tried to identify some kind of systematic pattern which LEDs turn ON without reason for help with debugging but to no avail. The only pattern I could find is that it is always the same LEDs that turn ON when switching banks. One thing I noticed: no problems on banks without any cues set up: all LEDs OFF.
As mentioned above I used to have the exactly same problem with the fader banks but this appear to have vanished in the last b11 version. I do not know if you actively fixed that or if it was a fortunate side effect of something else ;-)
I hope that I could make the problems somewhat clear as my setup may be kind of special/complicated. I am totally involved in finding the perfect interface to Cuelux that fits like a glove that allows me for creating good lighting in a intuitive way. I usually do lighting for live concerts with many bands I don't know every song (or even a single song!), so my interface needs to be quick and intuitive to create the perfect stage for the band and for the audience. That is why I am pretty "nervous" about all the MIDI stuff, since I feel that I am almost there with Cuelux and my controller ;-)
Best,
Ben