bryantwalley wrote: ↑Tue Mar 30, 2021 3:35 pm
Oh well. After digging through Max For Live, that also appears to be a dead end. I am really starting to regret my purchase of Ableton Live. If there is no way to define external hardware, the program is pretty much useless to anyone trying to use it as a full featured DAW. Perhaps that is not Abletons intent. Having to go to the physical gear and set the banks and channels manually is a cruel joke.
This would be nice to have. Coming from Sonar, I wanted this for years but have kind of accepted over the years Ableton has a very different approach in terms of hardware integration vs other DAWS from the 80's-90s.
Back in the Day the ins files achieved a couple of purposes:
1. Allowed you to browse hardware patches from the PC,
2. More or less supported total recall of your sequences (with some caveats).
Ableton's workflow revolves more around converting your hardware to audio (which wasn't readily available in most 80s-90s DAWS) which would have made INS files alot more important back then.
In which the problem is if you need the midi later and didn't save your track before committing to audio, you would need to replay (or try reconverting back to midi which isn't a perfect process.) Also you might not remember what patch you used.
I wonder how many M4L hardware integration tools their are and if they have alot of the old Rompler support like JV1080 (That said many of the classic Romplers now have VST equivalents now which might be a viable solution)
