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I don't how to go about doing what I want to achieve and am looking for some guidance.

I have a controller, a Korg padKontrol, that I have a working m4l device for. What I want to do is observe the active track and have the controller change how it works based on the instrument in that track.

So if the active track has a drum rack I want it to send the proper midi notes for a drum rack, instert flam and roll behaviour, trigger recording patters, etc.
If the track is an audio kind I want it to just trigger clips and maybe control a few parameters, and any other instrument have the pads trigger keys and I'll add extra functionality like locking to a key etc.

The real issue I need solved is, is it possible to send midi to and track? Do I need to insert helper devices directly into the device chain? Also, with a drum rack device, can I trigger and navigate the active samples directly or is it only possible to send midi messages and not know which section of the rack is active?

Thanks

I've been able to successfully send messages via a slave device that literally just funnels a [r ] object to midisend. Pretty dumb. I can't help but feel they dropped the ball in some spots.
Sending midi to an arbitrary track/device seems like a pretty basic feature to have in a MIDI centric DAW (unless I'm really dumb myself and can't find a way after much searching).

Secondly, I can't believe you can't navigate (Scroll) drum racks. How is that not just a DeviceParameter? (again, am I dumb here and not seeing how to do it?)

JoeM wrote:I've been able to successfully send messages via a slave device that literally just funnels a [r ] object to midisend. Pretty dumb. I can't help but feel they dropped the ball in some spots.
Sending midi to an arbitrary track/device seems like a pretty basic feature to have in a MIDI centric DAW (unless I'm really dumb myself and can't find a way after much searching).

Secondly, I can't believe you can't navigate (Scroll) drum racks. How is that not just a DeviceParameter? (again, am I dumb here and not seeing how to do it?)

you want to send midi from an external device to a track?
it is possible...

i think he means dynamically.

i think you have found the workaround we would suggest. you add the effect on one track and use receive objects to get the midi to other tracks. take a look at stretta's suite for thisinstance and autofocus. he has worked out a fair amount of logic that does what you want.

Surreal wrote:i think he means dynamically.

i think you have found the workaround we would suggest. you add the effect on one track and use receive objects to get the midi to other tracks. take a look at stretta's suite for thisinstance and autofocus. he has worked out a fair amount of logic that does what you want.

Yeah you get what I'm trying to do. Thanks for the suggestion.