Help with finding Midi control/mapping software???

[pitsta]

Hi there,

I'm trying to solve a problem and need some suggestions.

I have a midi keyboard controller, with a heap of knobs and sliders, works great! I use Ableton and a collection of soft synths etc.

The problem is that each time I go from one instrument to another, I have no visibility of what each of the control knobs on keyboard are mapped to on the soft synth. Nor what the values are.

I am trying to improve my creative workflow and performance mode.

Basically I would like to map all my synths, and maybe macros in Ableton and have them stored, and ability to switch between quickly all within an application.

***also what would be a winner - is on screen and live updating of the CC values in numeric and graphical representation ***

Am I asking too much?

I am happy to build this myself, understanding to right platform or tools to use. Reaktor?? Max 4 live?

I have a software development bg so not worried if I need to get my fingers working.

Any thoughts or insights in to how anyone may be doing this would be much appreciated.

Cheers
Shaun

[dsan@mail.com]

This software is really good mapping your VST's to the controller and giving you visual feedback:

http://us.novationmusic.com/software/automap

Since you have some coding experience it probably won't take you much to build something similar to meet your needs.

Happy Musiking!
dsan

[pitsta]

Hey thanks dsan,

That looks really good. I have an Edirol M-50 which I've had for some time, which is obviously not compatible. Now I just need to understand the effort involved in creating a more generic version of that versus a new keyboard that has mapping software come with it.

Really good example and base to go by.

cheers