I challenge you to help me work out a crafty mapping method!

[albotnz]

ok, now that I have baited the cream of the forum with the dropping of the proverbial gauntlet...

what I would totally LOVE to be able to do is drop a 3rd party synth or similar into my project mid set, and have tasty parameters already mapped for my controller.

i thought i had this sussed out with autoconfig.txt and racks/macros giving me the little blue high-five, and i was dangerously close to contentedness

but alas i see that the macros 'pin' those midi values. now if i change patches within my au/vst, those values that are macro'd do not change correspondingly! oh no! it is as if the macros are sending a stream of cc midi data at their fixed value, and the au/vst is torn from the new values immediately after loading a patch.

does anyone know of a way to do have macros assigned, but allow the au or vst to change those values internally, so that i can browse through presets? kind of like the midi 'pickup' option, i suppose would be one solution.

please help me ableton forum, you are my only hope

[Jekblad]

if the VST has macros' or similar inside, can you map to THOSE only, because their midi numbers wouldn't change when you switch patches.

you'd have to write yourself a little custom bank of patches. with pretty much any plug.

what plug are you using that u need presets? just map your stuff to useful things and tweak from there. (this is the fast easy method, but not the best of both worlds)

[Android Bishop]

buy a nocturn. problem solved

[albotnz]

@Jekblad: It's not a problem of midi numbers within the vst changing, as having to remap the assignments when I first import the vst - it's kindof me being lazy, but i really want to take as many technically minded routines out of playing and performance.

Writing my own bank of patches is exactly what I want to do, which is why this would be cool to do. Maybe just mapping on the fly is the only thing to really do...

@Android Bishop: why a nocturn? is it the sweet automapping? I've just got the user created automapping going for my x-station, it's freaking sweet but not getting me around this little tangram

[albotnz]

wha!?