[Jsynthlib-devel] Virtual device consoles?

[Joe E. <jo...@em...>]

Some of the sysex-capable devices I have define some sysex messages to 
let your emulate button-presses on the device itself. For example, 
sending a certain sysex command to the synth might make it behave as 
though you had just pressed the "bypass" button... or the cursor-left, 
or whatever.

What this would enable someone to do is to make a photo-realistic 
console on your PC... where you had an image of the device, and you 
could click on the buttons in the image and have them actually affect 
the real device. Of course, you wouln't have to make it photo-realistic. 
You could have a frame with a bunch of swing buttons in it which did the 
same thing.

Has there ever been any discussion or desire to do this with JSL? I 
guess you could do it with Senders, but... in this case, the buttons 
you're pressing don't necessarily cause any changes to a patch (like 
with cursor movement... or bypass... or panic), so it might not be 
entirely correct to put something like this in an Editor. Maybe there 
could be a ConsoleDriver or VirtualConsole class or something.

Does this concept appeal to anybody else? Or should I just forget it?

- Joe