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UPDATE/FIRST IMPRESSIONS: First off I am still working through the set up and customizing and tweaking my layouts. I did however have a chance to give it a test run with a small shoot I had done of a local accountant for some images for his website and I have to say first impression is midi2lr is an amazing piece of software.
I am sure you guys that have used paddy may not find the same wow factor I did, but coming from about 40% keyboard / 60% mouse usage to knobs, sliders and buttons is pretty dang awesome. I never gave paddy a try as it always looked a bit intimidating to install and set up.
Midi2lr as it turns out is really pretty simple once you get your head around a couple things. Setting up "mapping" the main layout or profile (assigning commands to your midi) was really simple. I hit a snag when I ran out of control knobsand faders and needed a new profile or "layer" I think is what paddy calls them. I knew there was a way to assign one button different tasks, but figuring out how to set it was a bit of a mystery. I finally stumbled across this page https://github.com/rsjaffe/MIDI2LR/wiki/Plugin-Options-Dialog which explains a bit better how to set up the new profiles, assign keystrokes\presets\commands etc. I am still not sure I am creating the new profile the simplest method as I just save the one I am working on with a new profile name and begin reassigning the controls a different task depending on what I am wanting for that grouping of tasks saving the layout as I go. Not sure how to create a new layer where all the controls are unmapped.
I currently have one profile for develop. This one has the basic develop commands I use the most (exposure,contrast, highlights, temp etc) I have another for my presets. another for adjusting the HSL controls of each color and one that has library functions mapped to it.
So far everything works very smoothly and as expected and I have not experienced any glitches or odd behaviors yet with the software. The midi controller (nanokontrol 2) I purchased was cheap and does not have motorized knobs or faders so it takes a bit of getting used to when going from image to image, but nothing terrible. However I can see where one with motorized controls that reset to 0 will be in my future. Should also allow for finer control when adjusting things like temp/tint/exposure even though the cheap controller I have does a decent job.
The only thing I cannot get to work is this and maybe someone can help me. When you create a virtual copy it is "stacked" with the original. The keystroke command to unstack is "ctrl/shift/g" However I cannot get this to work either in midi2lr or with my keyboard. However I can rightclick the select unstack from the menu and click and it releases the image from the stack. Can anyone else get the ctl/shift/g command to work in CC or am I doing something wrong here?
Anyway if you were one of those like me who was waiting and hoping for pfixer to come out with a windows version you really should give midi2lr a try. Hopefully the developer will continue to push this software forward with new updates,as I am really pleased and see where this can really speed up editing.
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