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anyone have a setup they like for using a MIDI controller for Lightroom? i tried https://rsjaffe.github.io/MIDI2LR/ and some similar plugins with a https://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/LaunchContXLBK--novation-launch-control-xl-controller-for-ableton-live but ran into issues with it sorta being more trouble than it's worth, between lack of a good mechanical zero (because the control surface is kinda chintzy) and a bunch of issues translating values: - CCs did in fact act like MIDI CCs, in that they would keep updating exposure to X even though exposure was already set to X (Lightroom would continuously flash the "hey! exposure value updated!" overlay). this seems like something the software should handle (if the CC hasn't changed from its previous value, don't send an update to LR) but doesn't. - Some settings wouldn't track correctly. CC value ranges don't absolutely map to LR value ranges, but some settings would seemingly have nothing other than a single min/mid/max value. - Lightroom would get overwhelmed with inputs and seize up, seemingly trying to apply "exposure +0.3", "exposure +0.5", "exposure +1" "exposure +2" all in sequence and then render them, rather than just going to whatever the rest value was. lack of motorized faders is also annoying when jumping between images, but IDK if i would want to try and get one of those if the other issues still exist. it'd be nice to have to only buy one piece of gear for both MIDI and photo work, but the MIDI->LR values translation landscape seems kinda iffy based on first impressions
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i am pissy that lightroom has no ability to assign hotkeys for various adjustments wanted to buy a generic macro keyboard to help speed up post and nope it'd be useful af because "-exposure" is literally not something you can assign to a key in lightroom VSCO apparently had a plugin to do this but naturally adobe broke it
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Oct 22, 2023 04:38
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xzzy posted:MIDI2LR will let you do that. midi2lr did a bunch of weird nonsense with being unable to tell when a CC was at the same value still (so you'd get a constant stream of EXPOSURE IS SET TO +1.0 toasters), apparently stepping through every intermediate value (making CPU usage go wheeeeee) and being unable to set any value other than +max, 0, and -max on some adjustments conceptually it should be great but in practice it seems pretty janky
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Oct 22, 2023 12:42
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Helen Highwater posted:This is exactly what a Loupedeck does. I have the Loupedeck+ It's good. Get one. yeah i know about those it's just annoying that you need dedicated hardware with custom integration code to handle it. customizable hotkeys for those adjustments should just exist out of the box
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