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| MORE SOLUTIONS !!!! :) Since his note below, Matthias and I spoke offline about these things, so I'm gonna summarize here for the benefit of any following this thread now or in the future :) - - - - - The Presets via Program Change method covered earlier in the thread works great. We have not established why my VST menu does not update to reflect changes, but Matthias' menu does. That said, it is really a Plan B solution - what i was initially seeking was more acute. - - - - - THE PROBLEM Imagine a continuous control with a range of 0-127. Normally one would map a knob to that and be done with it. But in this case, it is the Subcycles param for my Echoloop VST, and I simply want a quick, precise, way to assign a specific value: 2, 4, 8, 16, 9, etc... It's maddening to do this with a knob or fader or text entry. A button is really called for. SO on the EDP, the way we get around this is by saving and recalling Presets. But this is rather heavy handed, especially in a software environ where we want more acute control. I had thought of using dummy clip envelopes, but that only partially worked; then I thought of using MIDI clip control envelopes, and that was super complicated and only partially worked; using MIDI learn in Ableton was not possible I thought because Ableton does not allow many-to-one mappings. At an impasse :) - - - - - THE SOLUTION !! Here is the final, and correct, solution: 1. Expose the desired control using Echoloop's 'learn' process (in this case, Subcycles). This surfaces in the VST UI as a 0-127 slider. 2. Map that slider to a button on whatever control surface you will be using. You will want to send a CC message with a value attached.
3. Now, create as many more buttons as you need, but use the exact same CC# for each... and for each, send a different value: 4, 8, 16, etc. This seems very clever to me, works like a charm, and seems obvious in hindsight - but despite quite literally 4 days of banging my head against this problem (home sick with nothing else to do !), the solution has eluded me. I bow down to the Masters on this list, and especially Matthias - really loving Echoloop :) Best, Phil :) On Jul 28, 2012, at 6:06 PM, Matthias Grob wrote:
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