Keyswitch shortcuts

[DavidPardy]

I'm just wondering if there is any quick and easy way to implement Keyswitches from my VST instruments?

I am still learning and getting used to programming MIDI tracks so still finding my way around

I saw a feature in a video I believe of FL Studio where he selected a group of notes and was able to select the Keyswitch articulations from a little menu. I am wondering if there is a similar feature? I am currently keeping the list of articulations for my guitar instrument open in a text file and just manually adding the notes, but it would be nice to even be able to label the note or something in the piano roll so I have an internal reference within the program.

I'm not sure programmatically how this would be possible though? Unless there's a standard way to retrieve the keyswitch labels from the VST instrument itself, so I understand there could be a headache there.

[swartzta]

I'm using the regular pro version, so I do not know about the feature set you are using.

One thing I tried was using a step clip, remapping the pitches and renaming them to the articulation. Then feed that midi track into the primary midi track. But that's really clunky. It works, though. Will I do more like it? Probably not.

Another idea was with scripting - insert a note as your key switch, select that note, then run script to identify the note midi value and using the key switch midi note value calculate the shift note down value. But I can't find a method defined in their document that would identify the current selected note midi value. The script would be tied to a custom toolbar which I think they just implemented. But even that route would be laborious - every time you switched a track you'd need to switch the toolbar (unless there was a way to link toolbars to tracks).

Key switches or an articulation-lane-style-concept is simply not integrated at all in Waveform as far as I can tell in the current form - maybe I'm wrong and someone will point it out. Good luck!