Funny I just built a custom midi controller firmware and configuration manager app for the Line 6 Pod GO (which is traditionally not a full midi controller):
I picked up a couple of foot pedals built to control manual transcription software from thrift stores. That was years ago and I hacked them to control music software instead. Then one day I got Nvidia's Parakeet model running locally and was sold on automatic transcription in an instant. So in an ironic twist, I started using one of my spare transcription pedals to do transcription by wiring it up to a harness for Parakeet. It's great and the setup is basically trivial to create these days on Linux with a bit of help from an agent.
I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.
I have something like this in linux using a novation launchcontrol, it's quite straightforward using aseqdump, say I use the buttons to switch desktops, I have this launched as part of my session and always in background. While developing this I just printed $line to see what aseqdump sent to figure out the regexes
while IFS=' ' read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == *"client"*"Launch Control"\* ]]; then
device=$(echo "$line" | cut -d' ' -f2)
fi
done < <(aconnect -i)
aseqdump -p ${device::-1} | while IFS=' ' read -r line; do
if [[ "$line" == *"Note on"* ]]; then
note=$(echo "$line" | grep -o "note [0-9]*" | cut -d' ' -f2)
if [ "$note" == "9" ]; then
wmctrl -s 8
fi
elif [[ "$line" == *"Control change"*"127" ]]; then
note=$(echo "$line" | grep -o "controller [0-9]*" | cut -d' ' -f2)
if [ "$note" == "114" ]; then
# some macro
fi
fi
done
Repo is 2,500loc, all-in, according to SCC. Should be really easy to point your favorite coding agent at the repo and have it one or two shot something similiar in the language of your choice.
https://www.reddit.com/r/Line6podgo/comments/1wgo1tr/pod_go_...
If you lack special buttons, you could also just buy a bigger keyboard (or a MIDI controller that sits on the table).
I used Behringer Xtouch Mini mapped to Lightroom. This allows tactile controls, and also lets you keep your eyes on the photo being edited, instead of the constant back and forth between the controls and the photo.
22:56:38.740 note_on channel=1 note=36 velocity=89 [nanoPAD2 PAD]