fishmonkey wrote:the logic of how to do it is pretty simple. doing it fast enough on the fly is the big problem. i think we can assume that currently the electronics in the Push use a single definition for each colour, which is global for all 64 pads. to have individual colours means processing each pad individually, for every refresh cycle of the pads. so it needs to happen really fast.jameth wrote:In actual use, the color doesn't bother me a huge amount, but when I see videos of a a push that the white is actually white, I do get annoyed big time.
I can't really see why they wouldn't be able to give us the ability to do custom white balancing, somewhere inside the push is some code telling it how to display white and the various other colors, that code has got to be accessible some how or another.
I bet we will see a "PUSH Color Correction" tool from Ableton that will allow us to fine tune our own equipment.
This is such a simple problem, with what should be a simple solution...
if the solution was simple they would have done it months ago.
First of all I don't know about Ableton doing anything in what most companies would consider a reasonable time frame, so as far as it being done months ago if it was simple, well I don't buy it. (Wasn't PUSH supposed to be "released" back in like May?)
With regards to your hypothesis on how the colors are defined, that could certainly be accurate, and if that was the case then I would say a more efficient and effective way to do it would be to have LIVE send color hex values per pad, instead of just calling a specific pre defined color in which the PUSH itself decides the color values. In this scenario, LIVE would actually be in control of the actual color being outputted, not simply telling the push "show white", but, "show this color I have defined as white for you"
Anyways this is all hypothesis and conjecture, getting away from the hypothetical, even if they allowed us a way to simply adjust the values for each color globally, some of us with minor discoloration could probably improve the looks of our units, even if not completely.
I guess you can manually hack the skin cfg file, but that is a hack job, ableton could at least give us an official way to do it.
Also even this way does not allow us to CHANGE the actual color values outside of the pre-defined color names.