making live behave like a synth with changing presets

[ciw]

Man it's years since I've been on here!

I've just started using live again as a sort of live synth. One thing I've never found a good way to do in live is to remotely select presets like a synth would. When I say preset I mean a synth + bunch of effects, not necessarily within a single plugin.

The closest I've ever got is to line up each "preset" I want as a chain within a single rack then use chain select to choose between them remotely. This can be fiddly if trying to select between many presets with a single knob.

It would be lovely if the remote sl control assigned to chain select could update its name to show the name of the chain currently selected. Is there a way to do this?

Or is there a better way to achieve all of the above?

[Pitch Black]

On my Remote SL Mk2, I assign some of the programmable buttons to send a pre-defined CC value which is assigned to the Chain Selector.
e.g, if my Chain Selector is assigned to CC#9, each button is pre-programmed to send a set CC#9 walue when pressed.
Each button is pre-named in the Remote's LCD with the name of the instrument/patch/song.

So, it's not "updating" as such, but in use it works: see patch name in LCD next to button - press button - get that patch.

[Tagor]

[Tarekith]

How did you do that?

[ciw]

@Pitch Black - sounds cool but only works for 8 patches right?

@Tagor - that does look nice, though I'm not using omnisphere and my hardware doesn't look like that either, but is there a way to generalize whatever you're doing to racks and remote sl?

[Tagor]

someone from this forum racked all the presets
http://freelancesoundlabs.com/index.php ... sh-browser

and another guy
https://www.facebook.com/AbletonPushVstRacks

[Tarekith]

Thanks! I didn't realize you could still browse Omni's library from Push's display.

[Angstrom]

I use this Max device. It takes program changes and maps them to a rack chain.
It wasn't made for public consumption but I use it all the time. So it not "finished", I intend to make it a bit more user friendly but the user is me. so .. meh.

You can flip presets with your hardware controllers alpha dial or preset buttons, just like a normal synth. There's a limit of 128 presets.

How to use:

1. create an instrument rack and drag your "presets" into this rack.
2. for each preset make the chain selector as pictured below - each preset gets a unique "step" in the chain selector
3. create a MIDI m4l device and paste the blow text in. then flip it to presentation mode
4. ARM the track - important

Now you can change "presets" with your hardware controller MIDI patch change buttons, or external sequencer, etc.



Final notes. when you first make it, before you save it, it make not act correctly - hence the "update" button. but in normal cases dragging it onto a track with a rack of presets will work just fine.

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[Tagor]

looks interesting

so i need to load 128 instances of the plugin ?

[Angstrom]

well, I use this with Live native devices , Live racks filled with Operators / Samplers / etc -
it's not really made for flipping the presets of a nested VST. It could work (by embedding 128 instances) but really I don't recommend that.

I've not tried passing the program changes from Max to a racked VST, but I bet Ableton's weird midi implementation will scramble that plan.

Perhaps you need a different solution.

[Tagor]

http://www.maxforlive.com/library/devic ... -free-beta
this, you should consider