I love it so much that I have a second unit coming soon.
I know that the team is super busy trying to handle supply and programming the next firmware release, I’m really looking forward to it.
I am going to be faced with a predicament in my set up, as I fully plan to use both units in my setup simultaneously.
According to the legendary João, in this thread: (New plugin - RMPro from ReMasterMedia - #9 by jon) the GUI capabilities for controlling two devices currently will require two connections with two browser instances (different I.P. Addresses) to operate.
My setup is controlled primarily by a single iPad, which means I’ll have to rely on some split screen wizardry to control both devices with a live GUI instance. My screen real estate is pretty limited, so this will be pretty sub optimal for me at the current time.
I am wondering if there are any plans in the development roadmap to allow two devices to link together, and be represented in a single GUI.
Either by daisy chaining the devices through USB, with one “master” device that can still connect to the GUI through USB or Bluetooth, or a control chain option to link and potentially share processing resources?
I have zero programming knowledge, and my Linux experience was largely focused on making my desktop look clean and minimal; so I’m not sure if this is a possibility at all.
But it might be a huge quality of life improvement for people who begin to invest heavily into the MOD Platform as it continues to mature.
I figured it’d be a pretty big request and a massive technical hurdle.
In my mind I was visualizing that when the devices linked, the added I/O would pop up in the GUI; and the plug-in list would be shared across both devices.
However, thinking about it, that means both CPU usages would need to be monitored and displayed; unless somehow when linked the secondary device could share its processing power with the main unit. Sort of like how you can run SLI on two graphics cards in a PC.
Any chance that if the linking can accomplished, having the GUI be page tabbed?
So instead of needing to have one GUI for all I/O, a second instance running in the background that can easily be flipped over to without a page refresh?
I generally map all pedals on the physical unit so I don’t necessarily need to utilize the GUI, but for the initial board builds, having to run two separate browser instances on different I.P. addresses will take a considerable amount of time to work with.
It would be better if it was technically possible to have several devices working as one (1 server / X client) which combine computing power via network. When compiling (gcc) with Gentoo I had done this with https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Distcc.