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Since the Electra One has a touch screen, I was wondering if it would be possible to implement some touch gestures (as known from phones and tablets).
E.g.:

• swipe left / right could be used to switch pages
• swipe up could show the pages menu
• swipe down could show the presets menu

Currently, the ID of an element needs to be known to update its' parameters. This is problematic since these IDs tend to be not stable, e.g. if the order of pages needs to be changed or elements get moved/copied in/between pages.

As an alternative elements could be addressed by their page, row and column.

Install error on MacOS Big Sur 11.5.1

Dominic@Pooh-2 firmware % ./scripts/install-tools
Installing firmwareloader...clang: error: no such file or directory: 'CODE/firmware/tools/firmwareloader/CODE/firmware/tools/firmwareloader/build/firmwareloader'
make: *** [firmwareloader] Error 1
Installing hex2k66img...clang: error: no such file or directory: 'CODE/firmware/tools/hex2k66img/CODE/firmware/tools/hex2k66img/build/hex2k66img'
make: *** [hex2k66img] Error 1
Installing SendMIDI...  % Total    % Received % Xferd  Average Speed   Time    Time     Time  Current
                                 Dload  Upload   Total   Spent    Left  Speed
100   631  100   631    0     0   2513      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  2513
100  219k  100  219k    0     0   504k      0 --:--:-- --:--:-- --:--:--  504k
Dominic@Pooh-2 firmware % 

Since there is enough space both could be put on the same screen for easier access.

Currently, the whole preset list needs to be retrieved from the device to find the index of a preset to select.
This requires currently 2 asynchroneous messages which are a bit tricky to implement and includes the transmission of a large sysex message.

Therefore, a sysex command which contains the name of a preset as only parameter would be helpful. This command would look up the preset by the given name and activate it.

When a page change is issued via sysex sometimes the hardware buttons become inactive or the device freezes completely.

Note: You can make them work again if you long press a fader and then close the fader overlay again.

Currently, a formatter (LUA function) can be set to format a value on the device.
For DAW support in contrast the formatter is normally provided by the DAW and a script developer already gets the finalized text. Therefore, it wouldbe helpful to have either a setter for the label in LUA or (preferred) extend the already existing element update sysex command with a value label.

There seems to be no reaction to the sysex command in Firmware 3.1.

VU meters are pretty helpful to see playback activity of the channels in a DAW.

This could be done as a variant of a group header. Here is a rough sketch:

The controller should send out a notification sysex message when a user touches or releases one of the knobs.
This is escpecially necessary to record automation in touch automation mode in a DAW.

Allow knobs to send relative values. Since the encoding of relative values is already available in the editor, a switch to choose between absolute/relative should be sufficient.
If the knobs can detect speed it would be nice if this could be encoded too.