MorphoX mod wheel parameter not configuring in Live 8.2.1

[Gribs]

Hey I bought MorphoX today because I like the demo and many other LinPlug synths that I license (Alpha, Albino 3, RMV, ChronoX, and Sophistry plus some preset collections).

I am trying to automate the mod wheel in Ableton Live 8.2.1. I tried enabling configure mode in the plugin panel for MorphoX and then clicking and moving the mod wheel in the MorphoX GUI but nothing is showing up in Live's plugin panel. I have tried doing this for a few other parameters such as filter cutoff and oscillator symmetry and there is no problem. It looks like none of the global parameters are exposed to Live's instrument rack for automation. Perhaps this is by design (standard)? Of course I can make a separate MIDI track and draw in envelopes to send a CC1 envelope to an instance of MorphoX and have done that successfully, but it would be nice to have the mod wheel parameter exposed to the instrument rack as all the other parameters in each patch.

Any thoughts or ideas or is this just the way its gonna work (maybe there is a signal flow or control signal timing issue that precludes it)? Of course many other commercial software synths don't even have a virtual mod wheel control on the GUI so you have to do mod wheel modulation using a separate MIDI track, but some do have a virtual mod wheel and they do expose the mod wheel control on their GUIs to Live's instrument panel/rack.

Here is an interesting article on recording real time clip modulation in Live.

Cheers and thanks for a very nice sounding and fun to program synth. I am trying to use it to make some nice creepy Halloween music!

[Peter from LinPlug]

Hi Gribs,
dont you have a hardware MIDI controller with a Mod-Wheel ? This should be easily recordable

[Gribs]

Hi Peter,

Yes I certainly have that and can record it, but I am a control freak and want to draw everything in. It works fine for me just to make a second MIDI track and send the CC1 to MorphoX. I have already found myself looping a MorphoX clip and making adjustments to the CC1 envelope as the clip loops in order to achieve a desired effect. I just thought it would be easier to have the mod wheel exposed as a parameter to Live's instrument rack and the automation controls associated specifically with MorphoX. I am not familiar with standard plugin class structure so I don't know if this is something that breaks the normal VST standard.

Cheers and thanks for the answer.

[Peter from LinPlug]

You are welcome. The main reason is, that it can easily lead to confusion when both a Parameter and a MIDI CC change the very same thing, so we thought the MIDI CC (which is used probably much more often than a Parameter, well, it cries for being used) ... the MIDI CC is the better thing to use in this case.