Remote scripts: Control current parameter in VST-plugin GUI?

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pain staging
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Remote scripts: Control current parameter in VST-plugin GUI?

Post by pain staging » Thu Oct 07, 2021 4:28 pm

When a control is clicked on in a VST-plugin GUI and automation is on the "selected" parameter is shown in an automation lane. Example Serum "A WTPos".

Is there a way to control this currently selected parameter with Remote Scripts?

I thought the LOMs selected parameter (song.view.selected_parameter) could be used for this but this parameter only seems to match the currently selected parameter in Ableton devices and the VST-parameters that have been "configured" and is visible in the PluginDevice, not the VST GUI.

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Re: Remote scripts: Control current parameter in VST-plugin GUI?

Post by S4racen » Fri Oct 08, 2021 2:42 pm

The currently selected parameter is only applicable if it is configured in Live, otherwise Live doesn't see it regardless of you controlling it, similarly there's no automation of a non-configured parameter.

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Re: Remote scripts: Control current parameter in VST-plugin GUI?

Post by pain staging » Sun Oct 10, 2021 6:05 am

I don´t quite understand what you mean by "there's no automation of a non-configured parameter". Automation of a lot of VST parameters can be recorded by simply moving the corresponding control in the VST GUI. So some part of Live must surely know about the parameters?

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