Add DAW Controller support for various Arturia controllers

[soyersoyer]

This feature can be enabled in the minidexed.ini with:

DAWControllerEnabled=1

Features

Controller Display, Main Encoder

The controller display in DAW mode shows the MiniDexed menu.
With the main encoder you can navigate in the menu.
The Home is the shift+Main click

Supported:

• MiniLab 3 (tested)
• KeyLab mkII (tested)
• Keylab Essential
• Keylab Essential 3

Energy efficiency

This version uses a little less power so it runs cooler thanks to #3.

Extra MIDI CC

• Sostenuto
• Hold2
• Portamento

MiniLab 3 features:

Encoders

By holding down shift will bring up an overlay menu, where you can see and adjust what the encoders do.
You can use the main encoder to select the current encoding page.
Short pressing the shift will show the actual values.
Holding down the shift will goes back to the normal menu.
This overlay menu is context-aware, it is different if you are in the effect menu, or in a TG menu.
If you are in a TG menu, it only affects the selected TG.
If you are in the main menu, it affects the TGs on the first TG's channel.

• Main Overlay 1 (default)
  Cutoff, Resonance, ReverbSend, None
  PortamentoTime, Program, Volume, None
  Faders: ChG 1 Vol, ChG 2 Vol, ChG 3 Vol, ChG 4 Vol

• Effect Overlay 1
  CompressorEnable, ReverbEnable, ReverbSize, ReverbHighDamp
  ReverbLowDamp, ReverbLowPass, ReverbDiffusion, ReverbLevel
  Faders: ReverbSize, ReverbHighDamp, ReverbLowDamp, ReverbLevel

• Effect Overlay 2
  LimiterEnable, LimiterPreGain, LimiterAttack, LimiterRelease
  LimiterThresh, LimiterRatio, LimiterHPFilter, None
  Faders: LimiterPreGain, LimiterAttack, LimiterRelease, LimiterThresh

• Main Overlay 2
  Pan1, Pan2, Pan3, Pan4
  Det1, Det2, Det3, Det4
  Faders: TG1 Vol, TG2 Vol, TG3 Vol, TG4 Vol

• Main Overlay 3
  Pan5, Pan6, Pan7, Pan8
  Det5, Det6, Det7, Det8
  Faders: TG5 Vol, TG6 Vol, TG7 Vol, TG8 Vol

• TG Overlay 1
  Cutoff, Resonance, ReverbSend, MasterTune
  PortamentoTime, Program, Volume, Pan
  Faders: Cutoff, Resonance, ReverbSend, Volume

• TG Overlay 2
  MIDIChannel, None, None, PitchBendRange
  PortamentoGlissando, MonoMode, None, PitchBendStep

• TG Overlay 3
  CompressorEnable, CompressorPreGain, CompressorAttack, CompressorRelease
  CompressorThresh, CompressorRatio, None, None
  Faders: CompressorPreGain, CompressorAttack, CompressorRelease, CompressorThresh

• TG Overlay 4
  MWRange, MWPitch, FCRange, FCPitch
  MWEGBias, MWAmplitude, FCEGBias, FCAmplitude

• TG Overlay 5
  BCRange, BCPitch, ATRange, ATPitch
  BCEGBias, BCAmplitude, ATEGBias, ATAmplitude

• Voice Overlay 1
  ALGORITHM, FEEDBACK, TRANSPOSE, None,
  None, None, None, None

• Voice Overlay 2
  PITCH_EG_R1, PITCH_EG_R2, PITCH_EG_R3, PITCH_EG_R4
  PITCH_EG_L1, PITCH_EG_L2, PITCH_EG_L3, PITCH_EG_L4
  Faders: PITCH_EG_L1, PITCH_EG_L2, PITCH_EG_L3, PITCH_EG_L4

• Voice Overlay 3
  OSC_KEY_SYNC, LFO_SPEED, LFO_DELAY, LFO_PITCH_MOD_DEP
  LFO_SYNC, LFO_WAVE, LFO_PITCH_MOD_SENS, LFO_AMP_MOD_DEP

• OP Overlay 1
  OP_OUTPUT_LEV, OP_FREQ_COARSE, OP_FREQ_FINE, OP_OSC_DETUNE,
  OP_OSC_MODE, OP_ENABLE, None, None

• OP Overlay 2
  OP_EG_R1, OP_EG_R2, P_EG_R3, OP_EG_R4
  OP_EG_L1, OP_EG_L2, OP_EG_L3, OP_EG_L4,
  Faders: OP_EG_L1, OP_EG_L2, OP_EG_L3, OP_EG_L4,

• OP Overlay 3
  OP_LEV_SCL_BRK_PT, OP_SCL_LEFT_DEPTH, OP_SCL_RGHT_DEPTH, OP_AMP_MOD_SENS
  OP_OSC_RATE_SCALE, OP_SCL_LEFT_CURVE, OP_SCL_RGHT_CURVE, OP_KEY_VEL_SENS

In the Main overlay you can reach the TG and voice overlays also.
In the voice overlay there is a page for every OP control also, with the 6 operator and with an encoder which sets all.

Pads on Bank A

• Mono/Poly mode
• Portamento enable/disable, hard press to enable/disable Portamento Glissando
• Sostenuto
• Sustain
• All Sound Off
• Hold2
• None
• Channel AfterTouch Pad

Pads on Bank B

• Short press a TG will enable/disable that TG
• Long press will enable/disable all the TG on the TG's channel
• Hard press will enable only that TG (it uses the pad's AT messsages)

KeyLab mkII features

Faders

• The faders adjust the volume of the MIDI channels of the current performance

DAW buttons

• Mono/Poly mode
• Portamento enable/disable, hard press to enable/disable Portamento Glissando
• Sostenuto
• Sustain
• Hold2

Track select buttons

• Short press a TG will enable/disable that TG
• Long press will enable only that TG

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-20-f6a9ced
Use at your own risk.

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-24-63863fe
Use at your own risk.

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-25-35c35f3
Use at your own risk.

[soyersoyer]

News:

• Better KeyLab mkII support
• Fewer unnecessary display/encoder/pad color updates
• Uses less power

It turned out that it doesn't work well with the MiniLab 3 firmware v1.2.0. Please use version v1.1.1.

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-26-6ec0833
Use at your own risk.

[Spacepadrille]

Hello once again thank you for your work. I enjoy a lot my MiniDexed since your arturia mod is there. About the Minilab3 firmware update, can you tell us more ? Do you think it will be solved or do we have to stay with previous version forever ?
Have a nice day

[soyersoyer]

Hello once again thank you for your work. I enjoy a lot my MiniDexed since your arturia mod is there.

So am I (:

The new version has this feature:

Automated controls are no longer shown on the MiniLab 3 screen unless they are actively adjusted

This blocks all screen Info (Pad, Fader, Encoder) updates if one of the encoders or faders or pads is not in use. And whatever decides what is used is not good yet for MiniDexed.

I have 2 problems:

• If you long press a pad on Bank B, it won't show on the display what happening after the timeout. (I reported this: https://forum.arturia.com/t/minilab-3-firmware-v1-2-0/6064)
• If you press a pad in Bank A very lightly (except Portamento and AT), the display does not show what is happening. I found this particularly annoying. This may be because I send the screen update immediately after the NOTE_ON message, not after the NOTE_OFF, so I may be able to fix this.

Okay, the latter has been fixed. Thanks for your question :)

I'll update the description to say that v1.2.0 is just a little bad :)

[soyersoyer]

I also fixed the former one by displaying it without the image of the pad.

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-29-b27044d
Use at your own risk.

[github-actions]

Build for testing:
MiniDexed_2025-01-30-61856cd
Use at your own risk.