[sooperlooper-users] playing with osc and alternative gui written in PyQt4

[ki.ber.kom.uni.st <ki...@ko...>]

hi,
i'm playing with osc messages and alternative gui. i realised that i
need just few information in real time (everything else is
configuration for real time sessions). these are:
 * current position in time of the cycle
 * number of cycles in particular loop
 * velocity/volume of the loop
 * state (play, record, overdub, substitute...)

and that's what you can see in the attached image with current
position in time at the outer edge (in this example around 75% of
total time of the cycle), following the number of cycles (in this
example 3 of them being in the second one), with around 80% of the
velocity and being in 'play' state...

the original drawing is PyQt4 widget 100x100 px big and this
screenshot is after scaled to 200%. imho it's quite visible even in
the default size but when playing guitar i rather have it at least at
200%.

i'm interested if you guys have some other information which you would
like to see when actually looping..

i hope i'll have something working soon to show it in action.... at
the moment the all rings/circles are in their own classes so they are
controllable through ipython interactive session, easy to scale/zoom
and/or change colors... other states are also finished (record,
overdub, replace, substitute, insert, multiply)...

i'm about to finish osc sending/receiving.. everything works perfect
so far but i can't see anything in the documentation where i would be
able to get the number of loops in the session.. it's not a big
problem as i will control how many of them are there but still think
it would be good to have it as information which is available through
osc... i probably could do that with:
liblo.send(target, '/set', 'select_next_loop', 0.)
till it goes back to 0 but that would be ugly + it doesn't work for
me... i don't know why...
when i do:
liblo.send(target, '/set', 'selected_loop_num', 0.)
liblo.send(target, '/set', 'selected_loop_num', 1.) etc. it works fine....