Hey @AndreaDelSignore finnaly I checked some more of your OS version! Great work first of all.
I didn’t have time before to test properly the A / B features and none to test the Bindings. Also, the Performance Mode, now I feel that I did a “decent” test with it.
Everything seems to work great and is so painfully simple that my brain kept trying to search for the complicated side of it and “trying not to understand it”.
Bindings is a great example of it. I kept trying to find the complex thing on it, but in fact it is nothing more than an overview of all the device assignments that also allows you to edit them from a single point (without doing it plugin by plugin). Great!
The A / B comparison I must admit that I had a bit more difficulty understanding how to use it.
The need to take “the picture” that gets stored in both of the A and B slots and then you select one…got me a bit lost. Question here: would not be possible by default that slot A has the settings from the loaded pedalboard (once you load the pedalboard) and you interact with the B? So if you want to go back to the original you click on A…but this would also be “editable”, basically if you have it activated and change something that gets stored. Just like it happens after the first usage.
I guess that could even remove the need for the camera button.
Overall, that made me think about something that I’ve already thought about before.
I feel that is more a request to the development team from MOD (therefore I tag @falkTX also here).
While testing some features that you implemented, I felt again a problem that I had before and it can be really problematic for new users, or even for old users who update their devices and see something new that they don’t understand because they don’t follow the forum so closely.
Especially on the Pedalboard Action Bar, the Status Bar and the Mode Selector, I feel that we should have some info either with a text box popping up while we hover on top of the icons or with some side screen (similar to the advanced view for assignments) that could be pinned somewhere or closed and would show some info in case we need. It could be by clicking on the icon or something similar to how Ableton does with Live.
Of course, when the features are official, we try as much as possible to explain them in the Wiki (updating that to be according the 1.13 in all devices is actually what I’ve been focusing on the most on the last couple of weeks). Yet, when you are creating a pedalboard, you don’t have much time to go search for something that you are not even sure that you need / can use in the wiki and I think a small explanation of those things would be great (and likely I would not have gotten so lost on the A / B comparison). As the “MOD Gandalf for documentation”, I would be super up to get the text for each feature (upon likely some back and forward to check if I got it completely correct and if I don’t forget anything.
@AndreaDelSignore, @falkTX and the others, what do you think about that?