Option to only execute stepped dial actions when dial is triggered, not when selecting step
under review
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Sawyer Lawson
When adding an action to a step on the dial, you currently have three choices for what will initiate that action: “Select”, “Deselect”, and “Select/Deselect”. There should be a fourth option: “Only when triggered”.
This way, each step of the dial can act as a “state” that arms the dial to perform certain actions but, importantly, doesn’t automatically execute those actions simply by selecting that step. Once the dial is set to the desire state, the associated action(s) can be triggered by a widget or a MIDI binding.
ultracello
under review
Anthony Westbrook
It can even default to release to trigger itself, but this doesn't happen if it's turned.
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Sawyer Lawson
Anthony Westbrook Are you talking about being able to manually scroll the dial without triggering any actions until you take your finger off it, and then it only triggers the step you ended on? This seems like one of many very useful workflows that would be enabled with this option. And it would be really easy- you could just set all the actions to “only when triggered”, and then set a release action on the dial to “trigger current value”.
Currently, simply scrolling the dial manually to get to the setting you want isn’t viable without triggering a bunch of other actions on the way there. So instead we have to create all sorts of actions that scroll multiple steps at a time or jump to a specific step; it’s unnecessarily cumbersome.