Bank select (not the midi kind)

[woodslanding]

Still searching for a better way to select patches live..... and also trying to slim down my processor load. (In fact, I'm starting from scratch with a bare minimum of functionality)

The latest idea:

Have a 'bank' list which contains things like:

strings (0-9)
winds (10-19)
pads (20-29)
....

When one of these is selected, it loads new values into another list:
PAD LIST:
pad1 (20)
pad2 (21)
pad3 (22)
...

This way, with two 10-item lists, I can select 100 presets. Just trying to think of the easiest way to update that second list. Seems like I need to keep a third master list with all 100 presets, and then the first list would tell the second list to use items x through x + 10 of the master list. But the value of the item in the master list is what needs to get sent.....

Could do it with a script, but all my scripts seem to have bugs, so I'm trying to avoid it. (Mondo combo doesn't recall items correctly on preset changes, and my list combo has that strange bug which keeps it from being initialized) Could also maybe store items in an array, but not sure that's cheaper than a list anyway..... and it might not get recalled correctly from the conductor, right?

That's the most important thing--- it needs to recall preset changes right, unlike mondo combo.

Quick thoughts before I plunge in?

thanks!
-e

[23fx23]

what you describe seems like a 'Quad' or hierarchical list. Im also after kind of this and the next matrix should let us do our custom. As you say I think in any case it need 2 lists (one for the menu) then one for the submenu. i started that out with panels,
but think really worth wait next matrix with commain, and color. ie can make a 4x4 grid with firsr "menu", once cliqued it spread the
clicked submenu, or per col/line ect..

as you say either all submenus have a fixed length (ie 10) so you'l multiply first menu out by 10, but the eventual pgmchange will need to be really organized, can be boring in some cases.. or another system could have an independant list per submenu, have to see how we want to organize. I more after the second method but it needs to recompose the out nb selection by knowing each sublist length. this can only be done by a script, if i well remember listboxes don't have an item nb out (maybe a sugg?).

Script can certainly do the better job. but if don't wanna bother a listbox has a msdwn, so can make the first list, then once we clicked it hides and pop ups the secondlist, relating to what has been clicked, and allows to make variable size lists, and quick edit
them without searching a long one and bothering extract/reinsert.. i would do that to test by waiting matrix and a dediced script..

what's the pb with mondo combo and presets? I don't know how, but when i made kind of clone (auto_combo addon), i didn't have the callback error, maybe check it. Mybe it needs to be in a subpatch with preset/conductor isolate?