Controlling MIDI CC of external audio effect send

[tobeyg]

I want to use an external effect as a send in Live and be able to control its parameters via MIDI CC in a convenient way. However, CC control is not possible on an audio track to my knowledge and I think especially sends are even more locked when it comes to sending MIDI.

What are the recommended ways of achieving this? Is it to use a separate MIDI track in the project that only handles the CC of the send or are there other ways? Can it be done through Max for Live somehow?

[chapelier fou]

External Instrument ?

[tobeyg]

External Instrument ?

Can’t send audio through it though, right? I’m not even sure if send tracks accepts External Instrument as a device?

[chapelier fou]

Damn, you're right, I couldn't figure it out.
I'm afraid you have to use a MIDI track with CC control. If you want to have the send amount on the same track, you could map it to a knob via M4L.

[tobeyg]

Ah, so you mean having the actual MIDI CC control knobs on a MIDI track and then mapping those to some kind of M4L device on the send track, like a more generic mapping between them?