Bitwig & 3rd Party VSTs

[ubailey]

When using something like sylenth1 or any other 3rd party vst, when I change a preset or any setting on the vst instrument itself, then I can’t play sound from my keyboard or midi controller until I click back on the track to highlight it. This is so annoying and time consuming, does anyone who uses bitwig know how to get around this? I know go studio has the feature to allow vst control where no matter what u change, u can still play from your midi control/keyboard wo having to click on the track. How do I achieve this in bitwig?

[antic604]

When using something like sylenth1 or any other 3rd party vst, when I change a preset or any setting on the vst instrument itself, then I can’t play sound from my keyboard or midi controller until I click back on the track to highlight it. This is so annoying and time consuming, does anyone who uses bitwig know how to get around this? I know go studio has the feature to allow vst control where no matter what u change, u can still play from your midi control/keyboard wo having to click on the track. How do I achieve this in bitwig?

That's definitely NOT the case for me with Sylenth or any other VST I own (and there's quite a lot of them...). Just checked it with Sylenth1 to be sure.

[roman.i]

When using something like sylenth1 or any other 3rd party vst, when I change a preset or any setting on the vst instrument itself, then I can’t play sound from my keyboard or midi controller until I click back on the track to highlight it. This is so annoying and time consuming, does anyone who uses bitwig know how to get around this? I know go studio has the feature to allow vst control where no matter what u change, u can still play from your midi control/keyboard wo having to click on the track. How do I achieve this in bitwig?

The track instrument plays from the keyboard when it's armed for record (the red button with black dot), it's not because of the highlighting of the track.
In my setup it doesn't have this issue, once the track is armed, it doesn't disarm itself because of preset change or change in the VST.
Try to update the Bitwig version.

[ubailey]

I’m on version 3.1.2 and I know to have the track armed

[ubailey]

The track is armed the entire time, but nothing works til I highlight the track again

[ubailey]

I figured it out. There is a setting: “Map computer input to caps lock key” that I disabled before. I reenabled it and now i can control my vsts normally. Thanks all

[antic604]

I figured it out. There is a setting: “Map computer input to caps lock key” that I disabled before. I reenabled it and now i can control my vsts normally. Thanks all

Well, you said it also doesn't work with your MIDI controller. Otherwise this would be a clear clue...