@lovardaviskidd

In the screenshot your value coming into the Limit-Scale Value actor is lower than the ‘limit min’ on that actor’s first input, so nothing is coming out.

More specifically, you told the Limit-Scale Value actor to scale incoming values between 40 and 180 to outgoing values of 0 to 127, but your incoming value in the screenshot is 0.1661, which is well below 40.

Use the Hold Range and Scale User Actor I provided in my first comment to get the range of values and automatically scale them.

@lovardaviskidd @DusX @Woland @dbini 

Re: [Using Heart Rate MIDI Data to Control Volume in Isadora](/topic/9236/using-heart-rate-midi-data-to-control-volume-in-isadora)

I just found out that the app (Movesense), which is connected from my iPhone, is receiving MIDI as a clock and needs to be converted to bpm.  Here is what I have tried unsuccessfully.

Real Time Watcher to timer. Calculator A – 60 ÷ seconds → ticks-per-minute. Calculator B – ticks-per-minute ÷ 24 → BPM (HR). A Limit-Scale Value – maps 40-180 BPM to the full CC range 0-127. A Smoother, and a Send Control – sends CC 21 on channel 1 via “Isadora to Ableton Live” (I renamed my IAC Driver). 

The signal stops at the Limit-Scale Value and doesn't send an output signal to the smoother, and in turn, the send control. 

Any thoughts or ideas to remedy this?

I created this dark theme for a project and wanted to share it. For some reason, I haven’t been able to access the add-ons page to upload it there, so I’ve decided to share it here instead.

teodora.iztheme.zip

@dbini

Is this not the same as the lock feature? When I choose this, I get the exact same options.

The issue is, if I activate the option "User can save changes", the only difference is, that one could save the patch to a backup file, but not to the original.
Second; In non of the options the scene editing is available.
Or am I wrong here?

@DusX 
I'm working for a big city theatre, where the main system is a bigger media server (pixera). But for smaller productions on the little stages and the rehearsal rooms, we need a system, which isn't to complex. As we are a small team for video and can not be there all the time for all rehearsals and productions, we like to give the prepared hard and software to the production team. But they often doesn't have any technical background beyond playing a youtube video or maybe using VLC. Therefore it needs to be as noob proof as possible. But then sometimes there are more complex productions, with multiple outputs and often live cam inputs, etc.
This is where Isadora could come in handy. We would build a basic patch with a specific GUI for the production, limited to the settings they need. To avoid irritations and braking things, it would help to deactivate all parts, which could lead to issues.

At the moment as far as I could try it, these are the available options:

1. No option activated at all:
Controls can change values
No actors view/ control edit
No adding of new Scenes
Media library locked
No save option at all

2. "User can edit controls"

Controls can change values
Controls can be edited
Actor view is available and actors can be manipulated (Which is not obvious reading the options text)
No adding of new Scenes
Media library locked
No save option at all (still)

3. "User can edit media"

Controls can change values
No actors view/ control edit
No adding of new Scenes
Media library UNlocked
No save option at all (still)

4. "User can save changes"

This works as an addition to the other options and gives "Save Backup" option. But not saving to the same project.
But still no Scene adding/editing (Maybe with an option to lock the first X scenes to keep them save)

Actually I am wondering why there is no Scene editing available at all...

What I'd need:

Controls can change values
No actors view/ control edit
Adding/ editing Scenes with an option to lock the first X scenes to keep them save
Media library UNlocked
Save to the same project

Hello. thanks to this thread we know that the supercard Blackmagic decklinck quad 2 (8 3g sdi configurable in/out 1080p) works with Isadora in a tower pc. Anyone experience of it working on a mac ? I have a Sonnet USB-C cabinet that works well with another Blackmagic PCI card that allows Isadora to have 4 HDMI cameras captured at the same time. What about this one ?

@dillthekraut

isn't that what 'Save as run only' does?

@dillthekraut

If you're letting them add Scenes, media, and save changes to parameters, what is still locked behind the password? Just editing the Control Panel and deleting Scenes in the Scene List/actors in the Scene Editor?

Not trying to be snarky, I genuinely want to understand the user story you're putting forth here so we can log it. I'd like to understand better because you're a longtime user with good ideas and so I know that there's something I must not be getting here.

@obx

Ah, I think you misread just "actors" as "User Actors". 

There is indeed a warning you'll get when opening an old file that contains what are now considered "classic" (outdated) actors, and those actors are indeed red in color. Usually these actors have new versions and/or are now considered inefficient because they're CPU-based instead of GPU-based.

@dusx

I guess, it is pretty simple. But maybe I'm missing something.
Let's describe it from the perspective of the user without knowledge regarding Isadora programming. They should see a GUI as simple as possible and as complex as needed to program a show, without deep knowledge of Isadora.
Kind of "Add a Sceene -> add content -> set play parameters -> set fade times -> repeat".
To keep what they got, it is needed to save the content library, and the play parameters (or what ever parameters are set/changed), as well as they need the possibility to add new scenes.
What they don't have to have is the access to the editing mode of the controls and the actor editing view.

@woland Thanks, that's good to know.

It wasn't the normal user actor warning related to saving; this was a window that popped up when I opened the older .izz file, stating that some actors needed to be updated or performacne might be impacted. I thought it said they were highlighted in red, but perhaps I misread it. 

How are actors which are older and recommended to be updated indicated?