Thanks to the contributors so far!

I'm still searching for more feedback from people who don't use ARC or a dedicated controller, just keyboard.

Also, people who use TotalMix's Talkback feature are very welcome.

Very interested in trying this!

Very interested in trying this too!

I'm very interested to try this menu bar, can it have snapshot changes?

Hi all!

I made a short Demo-Screencast video to show what ControlPilot does.
Here's the link :-)

I made a short screencast to demonstrate Auto-Mute and Auto-Talk.
Watch it here

Awesome!

Hi Cyrano,
Beta is over and the version 1.0 release is imminent. I just didn’t make it before the summer break.
You can get the current pre-release on my website.

Thanks for your work on this! I purchased a license.

I have a mechanical keyboard with a rotary encoder, which I would like to use to control the Main Volume in the TotalMix FX control room. I have configured the keyboard such that turning it to the left sends key F18 and turning it to the right sends key F19. I have then set up hotkeys in ControlPilot for Main Volume -1dB and +1dB and have assigned those to F18 and F19, respectively.

When I try to use the encoder, however, the control of the TotalMix FX Main fader gets sluggish and ceases to work if I turn the encoder too quickly.

Setting the keyboard encoder to control the built-in volume of my Mac, however, results in a very smooth operation. And I can use the encoder on my ARC USB at any speed--the faster I turn it, the faster the volume changes.

When I hold down a hot key set to main volume +1.0dB or -1.0dB, the effect is that the command repeats at a moderate speed, thereby continuously increasing or decreasing the main volume. And that also works when, instead of holding down the hot key, I simply hit the key repeatedly at a moderate speed. But as I increase the frequency with which I hit the key, eventually the hot key ceases to work. That's the same thing that happens when I use my rotary encoder knob. If I turn the encoder very slowly, it works fine, but at a normal speed, it is sending the key command too frequently for Totalmix FX to recognize it.

So I think this may indicate that ControlPilot may be having some difficulty buffering keyboard input.

Do you think a fix may be possible?

New HUD Overlay layout option compact:

New feature in 0.9.9: Volume focus - The volume display can toggle to each incoming submix volume change. User preferences to toggle only to Main / SpeakerB and a timeout value.

Hi folks,
Control Pilot is out with version 1.0!
Cheers!

Fantastic. That's an excellent feature for an already excellent app!!

Just brilliant... It's working great with the latest Totalmix beta.

nice, the app keeps getting better.

My recall settings in Total Mix are at -15dB, so it would be good if the red marker would adjust accordingly.
Can I set the reference level somewhere to something lower than 0dB?

New version ControlPilot 1.2.0:

- New: Shortcuts for recall TotalMix Snapshots 1-8. Handle with care!
- New: When a Snapshot is recalled in TotalMix, the HUD displays the snapshot number.
- New: Shortcut keys of numeric keypad display in a box to be visually different from their main keyboard counterparts, e.g.  1⃣
- Changed: The HUD is also shown when Recall (reference level) shortcut is pressed repeatedly.

Great stuff,
Thanks !!

Thanks, this is really great!

ControlPilot 2 beta 4: Volume Focus un-muted

A new addition to Volume Focus: When a channel’s mute state changes from mute to not-mute, the Overlay is triggered, showing the respective channel’s volume. This behaviour is configurable with the Volume Focus setting.

Very convenient.

How does this relate to controlPilot?

Hey Matrixx,

I saw this too yesterday. Apparently Avid themselves don't know what happened and opened "a case". So let's wait.

Unfortunately, M-Audio HyperControl is at the moment the only method to feed ControlPilot with transport record state, which is useful for many to automate a TM Mute group on record in/out.
I will keep track of the issue and also look for options.

Btw. matt, who is Rinus?

Cheers, Felix

Version 2.0.1beta5 (17.03.2024)
- NEW: Added HUI MIDI protocol to receive transport state from DAW. (Pro Tools 2024.3 has dropped M-Audio protocol support for good)
- NEW: Shortcut "Flip width on selected Playback channel". TotalMix 'Width' is a property of the playback channels, not the outputs. Nevertheless, I think it's a feature that fits well into ControlPilot. Select in the Shortcut settings list which channel 'flip width' applies to.

This is how the Flip width display looks like, here in the new Flat layout. Width will be displayed as long as it's negative.

In the meantime, AVID have made it clear that M-Audio protocol support won't come back to Pro Tools.
With Pro Tools 2024.3 and higher, use "HUI" instead of "M-Audio" as ControlPilot's Transport Type.

Thanks for keeping track on TM FX development!