Volume control with keyboard shortcuts?

DocMartin · Dec 24, 2006, 06:39 PM

Hi all,
after weeks trying to fugure out a multizone audio solution to use with Media Portal (www.team-mediaportal.com) , I finally found the kx project. I ran out and bougt an SP Live ! card and had it set up in a few minutes with almost all I wanted to achive (2 x stereo, individually controllable via software).
The reason I wanted to be able to control the two paits of speakers via software mixer is that I user a radio (not infrared) remote control. The software of the usb radio rciever is able to execute Windows programs when I press a key on the remote. So I wrote some tiny scripts for the Windows Scripting Host that virtually press a key on the keyboard.

Now my problem with the kx Mixer: I haven't been able to find a way to control the volume setting with keyboard shortcuts or to change with the Tab key from one pair of sliders to the other (which would enable me to write the scripts and use them with the RC).
I have tried some macro recorder that also can use mouse actions, but thos doesn't work well either.

So if anybody could give me a helping hand on how to access the volume settings from "outside" - perhaps there is a more direct way than with the keyboard scripts, but as I am not a programmer

Any help is greatly appreciated - and merry Xmas

Martin

Maddogg6 · Dec 24, 2006, 08:22 PM

You could try my vMidiMixer - and set KX automation (which uses MIDI messages) to have those sliders affect most any parameter of a KX DSP plugin thats capable of automation... ?? - I have installed media portal but never use it as its slow as heck for me, and isn't compatible with my TV/USB device... So I never played with it much...

http://www.esnips.com/web/MD6Music

Hope it helps...

DocMartin · Dec 25, 2006, 12:49 AM

Maddog,
thank you so much for this hint - it seems to work like a charme

Concerning Media Portal: You are right - you need a pretty fast machine to have it work smoothly. And the support for TV cards is really strange: To gett my DVB-S budget card (pretty common and widespread) to work, I have to manually add some lines of code to the capturecard.xml - this goes on for months now, and I have no idea why the default config file does not contaion this definition.
But once it works, I thing it is a really pretty piece of software.
Best reagrds from Heidelberg, Germany
Martin

DJ Barney · Jul 31, 2007, 05:59 PM

Try Auto Hot Key, ( http://www.autohotkey.com/ ) which seems to be the master of windows automations and stopping RSI ... a very serious issue for musicians.

DJ Barney

Dec 24, 2006, 06:39 PM	#1
DocMartin DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Volume control with keyboard shortcuts? Hi all, after weeks trying to fugure out a multizone audio solution to use with Media Portal (www.team-mediaportal.com) , I finally found the kx project. I ran out and bougt an SP Live ! card and had it set up in a few minutes with almost all I wanted to achive (2 x stereo, individually controllable via software). The reason I wanted to be able to control the two paits of speakers via software mixer is that I user a radio (not infrared) remote control. The software of the usb radio rciever is able to execute Windows programs when I press a key on the remote. So I wrote some tiny scripts for the Windows Scripting Host that virtually press a key on the keyboard. Now my problem with the kx Mixer: I haven't been able to find a way to control the volume setting with keyboard shortcuts or to change with the Tab key from one pair of sliders to the other (which would enable me to write the scripts and use them with the RC). I have tried some macro recorder that also can use mouse actions, but thos doesn't work well either. So if anybody could give me a helping hand on how to access the volume settings from "outside" - perhaps there is a more direct way than with the keyboard scripts, but as I am not a programmer Any help is greatly appreciated - and merry Xmas Martin

Dec 24, 2006, 08:22 PM	#2
Maddogg6 Tail Razer Join Date: Jun 2005 Location: Bernyurass, AZ - USA Posts: 4,027 Rep Power: 0	You could try my vMidiMixer - and set KX automation (which uses MIDI messages) to have those sliders affect most any parameter of a KX DSP plugin thats capable of automation... ?? - I have installed media portal but never use it as its slow as heck for me, and isn't compatible with my TV/USB device... So I never played with it much... http://www.esnips.com/web/MD6Music Hope it helps...

Dec 25, 2006, 12:49 AM	Thread Starter #3
DocMartin DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Dec 2006 Posts: 2 Rep Power: 0	Maddog, thank you so much for this hint - it seems to work like a charme Concerning Media Portal: You are right - you need a pretty fast machine to have it work smoothly. And the support for TV cards is really strange: To gett my DVB-S budget card (pretty common and widespread) to work, I have to manually add some lines of code to the capturecard.xml - this goes on for months now, and I have no idea why the default config file does not contaion this definition. But once it works, I thing it is a really pretty piece of software. Best reagrds from Heidelberg, Germany Martin

Jul 31, 2007, 05:59 PM	#4
DJ Barney DriverHeaven Newbie Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 7 Rep Power: 0	Try Auto Hot Key, ( http://www.autohotkey.com/ ) which seems to be the master of windows automations and stopping RSI ... a very serious issue for musicians. DJ Barney