Re: thinking about moving from rack to laptop...advice please!

[Mark Sottilaro <zerocrossing@gmail.com>]

This was "fixed" in Live 8.  You can now choose any parameters the
plug in has and "enable" them.  The cool thing is that now you don't
have to see any more than you actually use.

On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 9:09 PM, Jesse Chappell <essejlc@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 27, 2009 at 2:34 PM, Jeff Larson <jeff.larson@sailpoint.com> 
>wrote:
>
>> It's more like VST parameter automation in a DAW, the plugin never
>> gets MIDI directly.  This is kind of annoying for complex plugins
>> (like say multi-track loopers) because you have to expose a bajillion
>> AU parameters and actions to make the most of Mainstage.  This is all
>> redundant if the plugin also needs to respond to MIDI for the
>> "primitive" hosts like Bidule.
>
> Yes, I will concur with Jeff that this is definitely annoying :)
>
> And then there's hosts like Live which arbitrarily decide to limit the
> number of exposed parameters to around 100, no matter how many the
> plugin may really have (a bajillion).
>
> jlc
>
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