Iris 2 not tracking MIDI well inside tracktion

[gpkcaminha]

So I've loaded Iris 2 on a track. With other plugins such as Collective/Biotek2 or even 3rd party ones I'm able to use my MIDI controller (arturia minilab mk2) just fine and the MIDI learn functionality works. However, on the Iris 2 plugin not even the mod wheel is working.

I can't even automate it, and Iris 2 has its own internal "MIDI Assign" mode which works really well on the standalone (if I just open Iris 2 directly without a 3rd party host like Waveform), and the wheels work on the standalone too. But this MIDI assign doesn't work inside Waveform.

I can use MIDI learn for knobs and such (not for the wheels as I said), but if I do that it's very very slow. Waveform even freezes if I use some knob, until I stop and the software catches up since it's so slow.

Has anyone seen anything like that happen to some other plugin? And if so, anyone got any luck solving it?

[Watchful]

I haven't experienced this, but will caution that Iris 2 eats up a tremendous amount of resources. What does Waveform's resources monitor show when this happens?

[gpkcaminha]

It doesn't seem to go any higher, but still the DAW is not responsive during the parameter change including the CPU Usage window. If I open Windows' task manager I can see that the software goes up maybe 3% or something, which is very low, but it does show the software is "Not Responding".

Are you able to automate parameters on Iris 2? If so, how do you do it? I guess using the internal MIDI Assign would be useful for creating presets, which I can do in the standalone and then just open them in the DAW, but if I want to record the automation I guess using MIDI Learn is the way to go. Still, the wheels seem to do nothing no matter what I do. The recorded automation still shows in the track recording but it affects nothing, so I guess this could be not related to the MIDI controller itself but instead in the bridge between Iris2 and Waveform.

[Watchful]

I have not tried automating Iris2, but wonder if there's some deeper issue at work. It sounds however like you've done much more thorough testing and experimentation than I expected. I'm hopeful someone here can help.

[Steve Bolivar]

Here's a thread on Iris 2 from the instruments forum. Possibly similar to your problem. This doesn't appear to be a problem unique to Tracktion. Hopefully one day iZotope will update it with some bug fixes but I think it's highly unlikely.
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