I am experiencing some real confusion with setting up host automation within Live 12.
When I use my original Kontakt Factory Library I see a fairly straightforward way to automate.
I switch on the Automation button in Live 12 and look to see which of my Kontakt 7 library parameters are available to select for automation. There are none available from the drop-down list. This is odd because when I open Host Automation in the in the String Ensemble I am confronted with a whole list of pre-assigned parameters. However, when I enable the ‘Configure’ control on my Live control I am able to click directly on the knobs that I wish to control and, voila, they appear on my drop-down list and are also added to the list of assigned host parameters in Kontakt (duplicating some that were already there) and it appears on the ‘Configure’ list. All a bit strange, but workable.
OK, now over to some more up-to-date library items. If I drop the String Essentials Library onto the track now. I again I enable 'Configure' in the Kontakt control. I try the trick of clicking on the Dynamics control, but nothing, nada, zilch. So, over to the drop-down for automated parameters for the track and, again nothing. When I open Host Automation in Kontakt I see a whole list of pre-assigned parameters, I find an empty slot and drag it to the Dynamics control. This time the parameter gets assigned and is also listed on the drop-down, but not in the ‘Configure’ panel.
Can anybody please explain a consistent way to work with Host Automation in Kontakt with Ableton 12. Why there are carefully populated Host Assignments in Kontakt that are not being picked up in Ableton (other DAWs pick these up).