Live information displayed in Stream Deck buttons
Hi, I saw this video from regarding stream deck buttons.
Buttons that update with level meters, buttons that change the UI display live based on user input.
In some cases the Stream Deck+ may be a better choice for the knob or fader functions, but the principle is the same.
I was wondering if/when we can see this kind of functionality in SoundFlow?
Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2023-11-16 00:27:03.014ZHi Andrew,
Currently, we support something similar via the MIDI Knobs package, which has bidirectional communication with Stream Deck Plus knobs.
- AAndrew Sherman @Andrew_Sherman
Thanks Christian, I'm aware of that package and it looks great. However my question is more about when we can expect to see dynamic buttons in SoundFlow, and when we can start to implement dynamic buttons without needing to be SoundFlow developers
Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2023-11-17 11:29:38.213ZThere are no immediate plans for that. Programming dynamic buttons is a lot more complicated as it involves getting much more low level access to parts of SoundFlow. That comes with more responsibility of doing things right or it'll break other parts of SoundFlow. Overall, it's not something we'll be able to support in the short to medium term for the full community, since it requires a lot of extra teaching of these things to the developers, which would not scale well for the entire community.
What we do try to build are apps that surface this functionality in simpler ways that we can support. One such example is the Generic Knobs functionality in the Basics package, where you can code Stream Deck Plus knobs in simple macros.
If you have other ideas, please do share them with us so we can add support for the use cases.