DT_bettinzana wrote: ↑22 Apr 2017 14:16
I think that the Slate guys are doing very few: in fact they say (not very publicly!) that this works only on the Mti2, because it uses a licensed TouchBase driver on OS X which have a gestures management. The Mti1 uses a PQ-Labs driver which, probably, doesn't (or partially) support the gestures.
They show the gestures on OS X. I am not sure that those Raven gestures work on Windows. But, as always, the are very good in shoting misleading videos.
So, to resume: this gestures matter seems to me more a marketing than a useful feature.
The Raven gestures feature is 100% the UPDD Gestures application, it's not in the Raven software itself. Slate is providing UPDD Gestures profiles for different DAW applications, which just assign different key commands to the various gestures to work with your DAW. Maybe they had to update Raven to be more compatible with Gestures, anyway they even mention that some gestures can be incorrectly triggered by moving more than one fader in the mixer.. I guess if you touch one fader and then move to another fader and touch that one you could end up triggering a two or three finger drag, or a pinch, etc.
The one gesture that I'd really like to try out is pinch to zoom the entire screen. Screen zoom is one of my favorite macOS features, and it could be really useful when working with a touchscreen. It's a function of UPDD Gestures and Accessibility settings in macOS.
I know that DTouch works with the UPDD TUIO driver, do you have any reason to believe that DTouch wouldn't work with the UPDD Gestures application? Even if it's not officially supported by DTouch, it would be a nice customization for users that wanted to add some gestures to their workflow.
I do know that there are downsides to gestures. I've read through the UPDD Gestures documentation and even they admit that the application introduces a touch interface lag because the software is always trying to determine if you're triggering a gesture before passing the event along. That could get very frustrating and be similar to my experience with Windows 10 (which at least has gotten better over the last couple of updates).
Hmm.. now that I think about it, can a DTouch macro trigger Mac screen zoom? For example, if screen zoom is setup for CTRL+mouse scroll wheel in Accessibility, will a macro sending CTRL + mouse scroll wheel up or down zoom the screen in our out? If so then we could create shortcut keys on the physical keyboard to zoom the entire screen in and out.
