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Radium Key Mappings Stream Deck

By Tom Jenkins @Tom_Jenkins
    2021-12-22 14:16:23.567Z

    Hi,

    I'm trying to program a Deck for Soundminers Radium Sampler's Key Mappings. I can toggle radium open as its a soundminer menu item but im struggling to trigger Radium's key mappings form the deck. Does anyone have any advice on how to achieve this?

    thanks!

    Tom

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    1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-22 15:15:36.768Z

      Hi Tom,

      Are you triggering the Deck buttons from a physical Stream Deck?

      Which macro action are you using - can you share a screenshot of what you've tried?

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        Tom Jenkins @Tom_Jenkins
          2021-12-23 10:08:08.941Z

          Hi Christian,

          Yes im doing it from a physical Stream Deck. Macro Actions with a menu window are wokring, below screen shot is an example.

          However programming buttons for things that do not have a menu item like record, reverse etc within Radium is proving problematic. Radium does have Key mappings for all of these functions so I'm simply using key commands withint soundflow to trigger radium's key mappings. For example, i have record key mapped to command + R for toggle record withint Radium so i have assigend a key command within soundflow to do the same command and have assignewd this to a streamdeck button, however this doesnt seem to be working.

          I'm wondering if this could be a radium issue as the radium key mappings themselves without soundflow seem to be a ltitle temperamental and do not always work.

          best,

          Tom

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          1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-23 11:00:52.673Z

            Hi Tom,

            Gotcha. Thanks for the screenshot - what I meant to ask for was the macros/actions that you can't get to work, ie. how you simulate the keystrokes to send to Radium :)

            Have you already checked out my Soundminer package? Justin has been kind enough to add small hooks into SM and Radium so that we can send certain commands to it. We may be able to get him to add some more, so if you can come up with a list of things you'd like to be able to remote control in Radium, I'd be happy to forward it to him, and hopefully he can add the needed hooks.

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            1. TTom Jenkins @Tom_Jenkins
                2021-12-27 12:51:25.777Z

                Hi Christian,

                Screen shots below fo simple macro to open DSP plug in window but neither seem to work.

                i must be doing something stupid but soundminer seems to be the only app im having issue mapping things to

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                1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-27 13:31:07.108Z

                  Hi Tom,

                  Thanks for sharing.
                  The first macro you've set an application trigger so that whenever Soundminer becomes active it'll try to execute the menu item - this may not be what you intend to happen?

                  The 2nd macro does nothing (there are no actions) but you've assigned two triggers to it.

                  Make sure to distinguish between triggers and actions. Triggers are "when should this macro run" - actions are "what should it do when run".
                  If you want it to simulate key presses, don't add a trigger but instead add an action (Press Keys).

                  We explain all this in the Learning SoundFlow videos here:

                  https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLKWpZOwx5Z3jxnpNo_dQPhDQNRwp7DCNj

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              Tom Jenkins @Tom_Jenkins
                2021-12-27 13:04:20.434Z

                another example attached. If i create a key map in radium for reversing the cuurrent sound, in this instance 2 on the numpad, it works. but if i try and map the numpad 2 as a keyboard trigger in soundflow for the reverse current sound action in radium, the soundflow key trigger doesnt work and nor does the Radium key map. However wheni delete the soundflow keyboard trigger, the raidum key map begins to work again.

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                  Tom Jenkins @Tom_Jenkins
                    2021-12-28 11:30:10.446Z

                    Hi Christian,

                    Thanks for the pointers, i ahve solved the dsp window issue but am still sturggling with radium. I'm looking to map a stream deck button to the already assigend radium key maps. My approach at the moment is to simply crate a key command in soundflow that is identicle to the key map in radium but when i do this, the radium key map stops working.

                    any guidance on this would be appreciated!

                    cheers,

                    Tom

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                    1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-28 12:43:34.923Z

                      Create a macro and add:

                      • Activate App's Main Window (set to Soundminer)
                      • Window Raise (make sure to point it to Radium)
                      • Press Keys (record the keystrokes to simulate)

                      Don't add any triggers. Now add this to a Deck.

                      How to do all this is explained in our learning tutorials I linked to :)

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                      1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-28 14:05:52.218Z

                        To be a little more clear:

                        This video will show you how to set up SoundFlow with Stream Deck (the initial setup and why to use SF's direct integration)

                        This will walk through the basics of making decks in SF:

                        This will show you how to create macros that simulate keystrokes - and then also walk through why using keyboard simulation is not the best way to do things (usually), and provide some alternatives. Note that these alternatives may not be available in Radium as it is today, but they may be available in the future.

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                        1. Christian Scheuer @chrscheuer2021-12-28 14:19:52.390Z

                          I've just reached out to Justin to see if we could augment the UI hooks so that more direct control of Radium controls could be achieved.

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