Paddy 4.3 Beta

I pushed the 4.3 beta out. Available here:  https://sourceforge.net/projects/paddy/files/01%20Latest%20Version/


The main thing is the IPAD support. It's a lot of fun to edit pictures that way.

• Download Paddy
• Follow these intructions: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/paddy/index.php?title=Paddy_user_guide#iPad
• Video tutorial: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IL3ag5RW78c&list=UUoE0v1M2NA9H2NYVC-wSA7Q
• Youtube channel: http://www.youtube.com/user/PaddyforLightroom

Novation Nocturn video

Video: Editing with the Novation Nocturn. Alpha version will be updated this Easter weekend.

Video: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M68543e80D4

See here to download: https://sourceforge.net/apps/phpbb/paddy/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=587

Novation Nocturn

I now have a cool interface for the Novation Nocturn. It works - can assign sliders to the encoders and anything to the button. I really like this cool little controller

Video to come in a few days

Android for Lightroom

So, you ask, what about Android?

The bad news; I don't have an Android device, and probably not much time to develop a template
The good news: You can! Paddy's OSC interface is completely open
The mediocre news: Tough to find a good OSC app for Android


I see a lot of posts about Android on the board. I hope that somebody takes this on - it shouldn't be hard to get a proof of concept going. Here, i am trying to outline what you need to do. If you are lucky, you can get the basics going in 15 minutes. Then it will take time to design a layout, but you will get the hang of it quickly

(1) Find an OSC app for Android that let's you design you own template
You want something with buttons, labels, and sliders (in OSC speak, faders). There are a bunch of these out there. Two I found:

• TouchOSC for Android - far behind the IPAD version, doesn't support labels or tabs, but is really well documented
• Control (OSC+Midi): Seems cool, has bi-directional communication

There are probably more out there. In these, you will need to find control surfaces. Start by adding a button and a slider. You will also need to tell this software where to find your computer on the network and set "ports" to send on

• Set the sending port to: 8000
• Set the receiving port to: 9000

(2) Create a few controls and ssign OSC commands
You can find the list of Paddy's OSC commands here: https://sourceforge.net/apps/mediawiki/paddy/index.php?title=Paddy_Developer_Wiki . Effectively, you need to assign these to your buttons. that's it.

As a suggestion:
Put your first button on /Paddy/Lightroom/function/13 . This is rotate right
Put your first slider on /Paddy/Lightroom/slidernumber/5 with a range from 0 to 1 . This is exposure


(3) Create a connect button
Create a button to initiate the dialog with Paddy. This is the command /Paddy/Lightroom/connect

When Paddy receives this command, it reads the IP address and starts to send commands and slider settings to that IP address

(4) Start the template, make sure the app knows where your PC is
(5) Start Paddy and check "Use OSC" in the basic settings under the Midi/OSC tab
(6) Play and see whether it works
Start by hitting the connect button

have fun and please ask questions if this doesn't work

Restarting the blog

I decided to restart the Paddy blog. This will allow me to rewrite a bit about the development process, ideas that I have etc.

Currently, I am pushing on Paddy 4.3 whenever I can. The Alpha version can be downloaded here. I have to decide when I push this out. 

At the moment, the three big things are

• IPad support
• Support for more than one Midi device
• Support for the new XK-60 and XK-80, the follow-up models form the trusted XKeys professional
• Search box in the assignment menus
• Bugfixes

In planning is support for the Novation Nocturn, but I iwll probably push that out a bit as I just ordered the device. This promises to be tricky as it seems that this low cost device can only send on one Midi channel, which means that the standard Paddy mapping will not work.

We shall see. In the meantime, there are several new videos up for the IPad on the Youtube channel.