Explain LED lights animations

[RadekPilich]

Can you please explain LED lights animations to me? 

Where can I see the effect?

If I try to set them as activity / note monitor, I don't see any change.

[RadekPilich]

Oh, found it in the cheat sheet

"Use SHIFT + Y (REMOTE) to toggle the LED light show on and off."

[RadekPilich]

With the PORT MONITOR, can you explain why:
- the monitor is active only on outputs but not on inputs (speaking about DINs, strangely on USB it's active on inputs as well)
- the monitor is velocity sensitive, so unless I am hitting keys hard / sending high velocity MIDI notes, nothing might show up on outputs either

I would suggest to change this behavior to:
- show activity on inputs as well
- adjust the velocity sensitivity so that it lights up on lower velocities as well or scrap the velocity sensitivity altogether

The issue is affected by the LED brightness setting as well.

With max brightness is probably closest to desired implementation, but with min brightness, it needs even more velocity and actually changes to a different channel color with low velocity.

[Jesse Johannesen]

With the PORT MONITOR, can you explain why:
- the monitor is active only on outputs but not on inputs (speaking about DINs, strangely on USB it's active on inputs as well)
- the monitor is velocity sensitive, so unless I am hitting keys hard / sending high velocity MIDI notes, nothing might show up on outputs either

I would suggest to change this behavior to:
- show activity on inputs as well
- adjust the velocity sensitivity so that it lights up on lower velocities as well or scrap the velocity sensitivity altogether

The issue is affected by the LED brightness setting as well.

With max brightness is probably closest to desired implementation, but with min brightness, it needs even more velocity and actually changes to a different channel color with low velocity.

With the PORT MONITOR, can you explain why:
- the monitor is active only on outputs but not on inputs (speaking about DINs, strangely on USB it's active on inputs as well)

I think the idea is to only show MIDI that is being routed by the MRCC. 

- the monitor is velocity sensitive, so unless I am hitting keys hard / sending high velocity MIDI notes, nothing might show up on outputs either

Sorry about that, I imagine that Steve just thought it would be cool to have it react to velocity. It may not be the best system for keeping track of MIDI activity, but I think the spirit of the thing was more that it might come in handy, and be cool to look at, and not how can we make the perfect activity display. I will ask Steve if he wants to take a look at having a non zero minimum LED brightness for velocity, but I don't know that I would expect this to be a priority. 

And as for LED brightness, that might actually be the issue now that I think about it. The LEDs have about 256 levels of brightness (it may be 1096 even) and anything over 10 is blinding, so with LED at its lowest setting, there really aren't that many options for LED brightness to choose from. It may be that it's bottoming out. 

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OK I put in a request to take a look, I'll report back if it gains any interest from Steve.