This wasn’t the post I’d expected to write, but after reading two comments in close succession on an old post when I first started playing with the X-Touch Mini I decided to spend some time effectively shuffling code around (and adding a primitive configuration dialog) so I could publish a standalone app for DigiMixer. I … Continue reading DigiMixer – the app →

Despite this blog series going very slowly, the DigiMixer project itself has certainly not been stalled. Over the last year, I’ve added support for various additional mixers, as well as improving the support for some of the earlier ones, and performing quite a lot of refactoring. DigiMixer now supports the following mixers, to a greater … Continue reading DigiMixer: Protocols →

Nearly three years ago, I posted about some fun I’d been having with VISCA using C#. As a reminder, VISCA is a camera control protocol, originally used over dedicated serial ports, but more recently over IP. Until this week, all the cameras I’d worked with were very similar – PTZOptics, Minrray and ZowieTek all produce … Continue reading Variations in the VISCA protocol →

I’m aware that I haven’t been writing as many blog posts as I’d hoped to about DigiMixer. I expect the next big post to be a comparison of the various protocols that DigiMixer supports. (I’ve started a protocols directory in the GitHub repo, but there isn’t much there yet.) In the meantime, I wanted to … Continue reading SSC Protocol →

While I’m expecting this blog post series to cover a number of topics, the primary purpose is as a vehicle for discussing abstraction and what it can look like in real-world projects instead of the “toy” examples that are often shown in books and articles. While the DigiMixer project itself is still in some senses … Continue reading DigiMixer: Introduction to digital mixers →