It’s actually pretty useable. The keys are very small but latency is reasonable for triggering effects or switching scenes. Playing synths is quite bad.
This one doesn’t hibernate so soon. In fact the longest I’ve tested was a minute or so and it didn’t so there’s hope. It connects way faster than my other keypad and doesn’t seem to drop the connection.
The pairing was a bit random as it came without any instructions but I found a Yt video and discovered a hidden pairing button!
Not a bad purchase at all….and I can use it to name projects too since it has letters as opposed to just numbers in the other keyboard.
There is a drawback however with that Drambo, when hosted needs to be in the foreground to receive bt keystrokes. Then, from what I understand, when foregrounded again I need to touch the screen in order for it to work again.
A slight pita if one tries to play screen free or there is another app like Samplr in the foreground.
who would have thought you would like "to "type/cough write" into an app that is in the background that can't show you the "written words" because its in the background" ;)
its simple, apple hasn't thought of clever remapping of input keystrokes for non linguistic purposes ...
its like huh? you want to type something you can't see, what's the purpose of that ??? ...
(it makes sense if you think of the keyboard as writing tool for text only)
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I’ve finally received the bt keyboard!
It’s actually pretty useable. The keys are very small but latency is reasonable for triggering effects or switching scenes. Playing synths is quite bad.
This one doesn’t hibernate so soon. In fact the longest I’ve tested was a minute or so and it didn’t so there’s hope. It connects way faster than my other keypad and doesn’t seem to drop the connection.
The pairing was a bit random as it came without any instructions but I found a Yt video and discovered a hidden pairing button!
Not a bad purchase at all….and I can use it to name projects too since it has letters as opposed to just numbers in the other keyboard.
There are definitely a lot of keypads/keyboards that have limitations like this.
There is a drawback however with that Drambo, when hosted needs to be in the foreground to receive bt keystrokes. Then, from what I understand, when foregrounded again I need to touch the screen in order for it to work again.
A slight pita if one tries to play screen free or there is another app like Samplr in the foreground.
Is this an iOS limitation or a bug? @giku
its an iOS thing,
who would have thought you would like "to "type/cough write" into an app that is in the background that can't show you the "written words" because its in the background" ;)
its simple, apple hasn't thought of clever remapping of input keystrokes for non linguistic purposes ...
its like huh? you want to type something you can't see, what's the purpose of that ??? ...
(it makes sense if you think of the keyboard as writing tool for text only)
the touch the screen again before bt reacts again looks like an iOS or bt bug
on the Mac I have a hardwired keyboard, so no extra bt bugs and no latency ... 😃😎
I guess the apple hardwired keyboards for iPads have the same effect
one thing less that can go wrong (bt) ...
Yes it's not only iOS thing but every other OS, only active window receives keystrokes.
its also a security thing,
if any app running could see what you type, it could phone it home back to E.T.
Yeah, makes sense. Cheers @lala @giku
It’s a pity it requires a screen tap to activate. Bummer.
I wonder if this is also the case with Korg’s nano studio Bluetooth controllers or if not how do they get around it?
BT Midi devices work since they are handled by Core Midi.
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