Re: Switching Echoloop VST Params Using Ableton Dummy Clips

[Phil Clevenger <phil.clevenger@gmail.com>]

Andy - 

Please cue "You Can't Always Get What You Want." :)

Because I just got what I need !

You are of course correct that the Echoloop is responding to Pgm Changes, 
but I could not see that - because the Preset Banks popup menu does not 
update to show the current preset when it's being switched remotely !  
(prolly worth a bugfix?)

Digging deeper for testing, i set up 16 distinct presets with Subcycle 
values of 1,2,3,4,5 etc... and sending Pgm Changes 0-15 via direct MIDI 
was in fact correctly updating params as stored in the presets for the VST.

So - halle-freaking-lujah, there is a way. What I *wanted* was a discrete 
control for each param I want to change or hit, but upon inventory it's 
clear the net of all those is under a dozen basic states for the VST. So, 
the preset change works and accomplishes that - and I get what I need.

Thanks Andy, Per, Matthias, and everyone else who has suffered through 
this thread with me :)

Phil 




On Jul 28, 2012, at 7:48 AM, andy butler wrote:

> 
> 
> Phil Clevenger wrote:
>>> The *only* feature that's  required is "just route my midi
>>> controller to the audio plugin".
>>> 
>> Andy, if only this were true !
> 
> 
> 
> 
> It *does* change vst preset when it gets ProgCh.
> I have the Subcycle numbers flipping about as I type.
> 
> and Yes, it does that in Ableton, the only strangeness being that
> Ableton insists on changing the Midi Channel to 1 when
> it forwards to the plugin.
> 
> Apart from this glitch with the note-On, I get the behaviour I always 
> had:-
> Link up my usual EDP midi controller to computer.
> Follow my Ableton Howto.
> Echoloop responds just like an EDP.
> 
> Currently I'm having a problem with the windows version which needs 
> fixing though ;-(
> Anyone who got the latest win version may find it not responding to 
> Note-On at all.
> (trying to be too quick editing out mac specific code)
> 
> andy
>