Talking GPUs and Tech We Can’t/Can Live Without

As far the t-bar thing check out midigrade it uses controllermate and the midi twister. But basically you can easily program a drag right and left via a pan knob. I’ve altered the midi grading mappings and have it so the shift key make more course movements.

Example

Midi Grade:
https://sellfy.com/p/ggBh/

Glad to hear you like the Orbweaver Pat. I’ve been using it over two years now and feel the same way, as if it’s wired directly into to my brain. I’ve got it set to work with every piece of post software that I use and never have to look down at the keys, so I can stay focused and engaged on my screen at all times. Do you use Razer Synapse for the mappings or do you have it set using Controllermate?

Greg – that’s awesome! Just when I thought I was done exploring 3rd party input devices… you’ve got another one for me!

I’ve been using the Synapse. If find the Controllermate to be really cumbersome to program… and just when I’ve got the software figured out, it’s 6 months later and I have to re-learn it again (since it’s too complicated to just stick in my brain). But that means I give up some of the X,Y coordinate options in Controllermate.

Maybe when I move to PC I’ll switch – Robbie says the PC Controllermate software is MUCH easier to use (since it’s made by a completely different company).

I have a midigrade and a ripple and its pretty nice. Honestly the midi grade is way more flexible than a surface. I can program any combination of steps on a click. The knobs turn indefinitely and we use the delta values to trigger the cursor position, scroll/drag actions. I use internal midi note triggers to execute common routines. The knobs act as a button, pan and a press pan and change colors programmatically . I use my f16-19 keys to jump between banks. You can program an indefinite amount of banks by turning on and off pages in controller mate via key strokes or midi notes. Every knob also is mapped to a button function as well as a adjustment and there is smart page1/2 toggle logic.

Very neat! Thanks for sharing the video example. Seems like a cool 3rd party input addition.

You can probably use one of many midi based controllers to act as a home “T” replacement for wiping.

Hey guys. I’m currently running 3x 980tis in a Mac Pro with cubix. Obviously the mac pro is only PCI 2.0 so regardless would I still get a fair bit of benefit from swapping those for 2 titan pascals? Thinking it may soon be time to switch to a PC…

I use Synapse as well, but plan to transfer everything over to Controllermate soon. For some
reason Synapse will often get stuck when I use certain combinations of keys and thumb switch triggers. For example, the keys I have programmed for next node will get stuck and next thing I know I’ve got 100 new nodes. Embarrassing when it happens with a client in the room. Looking on the Razer forums it seems this is a common problem (for gamers, of course) with Synapse. Has it happened to you? If so, have you found a solution?

Awesome! Thanks for sharing this! Seems so much more adaptable than the tangent element panels.

Can fully vouch for this method. Bought both pieces last week and it has improved my workflow big time! For an investment that adds up to less than £800 it can do everything the >£1000 Tangent Wave can. I’d argue that you can do even more with this set up like Greg mentioned, as if you learn the controllermatte interface you can do your own mapping configurations. There’s no restrictions as to how to use it.

There’s more to a Quadro or a FirePro/Radeon Pro WX workstation card than just reliability and application enhanced drivers, they can also output 10-bit color… something a GTX gaming card cannot do in applications. GTX gaming cards, including all of the Titans, can only output 8-bit color to applications. Gaming cards can, however, output 10-bit color in Direct X for some color optimized games (i.e. Alien Isolation), but NOT applications. You have to use a workstation card for 10-bit color output. For the technical explanation, here’s the direct quote from NVIDIA:

“NVIDIA Geforce graphics cards have offered 10-bit per color out to a full screen Direct X surface since the Geforce 200 series GPUs. Due to the way most applications use traditional Windows API functions to create the application UI and viewport display, this method is not used for professional applications such as Adobe Premiere Pro and Adobe Photoshop. These programs use OpenGL 10-bit per color buffers which require an NVIDIA Quadro GPU with DisplayPort connector.”

You’d see a slight bump probably but not something huge.

do you have program screen position in for the drag?

Thanks for bringing this up Daniel.

As you point out this is a bit of a complicated issues depending on the processing pipeline to deliver content to the on screen display but yes, generally speaking with GTX cards you can get 10/12bit with Direct X but your limited to 8-bit with OpenCL/GL

But the issue is more of an ‘in progress’ situation as ‘gaming cards’ are allowed to do more. What I mean is the for example a Titan X I have attached to a 10-bit IPS computer display via Displayport does indeed show 10-bit support (see attached). As NVIDIA/AMD push more into HDR & WGC I think we’ll obviously see application support/frameworks change and indeed 10-bit + support the norm without all the BS. But again leveraging that 10-bit support for on screen needs is currently a PIA , as you said the only 100% for certain way is with a workstation card.

Regardless, although this issue might be a concern to some, it’s not for me, as I’m never using my computer monitors for color critical evaluation – I’m doing that via SDI to 10 bit reference monitoring. Just using GPUs to chunk though grades! This issue doesn’t effect the ability to produce 10bit output via a VIDEO I/O device pathway.

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