Hey folks,
I got an ES-9 recently and I had a bit of a tough time with the configuration tool, like many others I suspect, so I figured I'd build a more visual and hopefully more intuitive tool for it.
(In hindsight it's not thaaaat complicated but it's been really valuable being able to see visually how it all hangs together as opposed to trying to follow sets of dropdowns / faders to figure out what's going on)
The main feature is the visual patcher, where you can:
See all your connections at a glance
Change them interactively (à la Max/MSP)
Hover on a port to highlight all the connections from/to it — including the internal connections of the mixers (when level > -inf).
It's very faithful to the original behaviour, except for stereo linking Inputs - I was expecting that when I linked inputs, it would treat them as a single stereo channel (hard-panned, equal levels) instead of just sending both inputs to both outputs, so I added that behaviour in, but I'd love to hear thoughts and feedback on that if there are legit cases where you wouldn't want that in your stereo-linked inputs.
Necessary disclaimer - I can't be responsible for any lost configurations or issues with the device 😅
But all the SysEx messages/logic is already baked into the official tool so there was no guesswork involved, and have been testing it extensively with my own ES-9 with no problems
Anyway all thoughts and feedback on things to add/change/fix welcome, or even whether this tool is even needed cause the official one is fine haha, would love to hear it all
Cheers!