Ideas/Draft for better midi controler integration

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1. Allow external control for the transport using normal MIDI CCs
2. Allow the mixer to be controled using CCs
3. Allow selecting segments in the arranger using 2 CCs (vertical and horizontal) - is that really useful ?
4. Allow selecting the current track over CCs, maybe dis/enable record state
5. Allow to record Controler movements, in order to articulate midi tracks: expression, velo, portamento, modulation, etc..

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1. make some knobs and slider values (e.g. mixer volume) controlable (how?)
2. allow rosegarden to receive midi control messages and send them to the right slider-controls (classes ?)
3. make control messages recordable and “playable”
4. add an (UI-) interface for setting up common (hardware-) control interfaces.

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'' A usual midi control message has 3 Bytes :

1. $B0 (where low-nibble 0-F is the channel nr.)
2. $00 - $7F (the controler number)
3. $00 - $7F (the value (MSB))

It's possible to send a LSB controler-value-pair for fine tuning additionally. ''

1. http://www.computermusicresource.com/MIDI.Commands.html
2. http://www.midi.org/techspecs/midimessages.php
3. http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/table1.html
4. http://www.harmony-central.com/MIDI/Doc/tutorial.html

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1. None yet

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1. All general midi controlers
2. Frontier TranzPort - http://www.frontierdesign.com/Products/TranzPort
3. Steinberg cc121 - http://www.steinberg.net/de/products/hardware/cc121.html
4. Korg Nano Control - http://www.korg.de/produkte/pc-tools/produktinfo7.html