HELP: Can't get MIDI CC to work in Zebrify (SOLVED)

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For some reason MIDI CC is not working for me in Zebrify.

Setup is: Sierra 10.12.4, Logic 10.3.1, Zebrify 2.7.2

I can get it to work fine in Zebra: Click on the "L" in settings, click on a knob, turn the knob on my controller, MIDI CC is assigned.

When I do the same in Zebrify: Nothing.

I even tried to assign in manually, and it gets no response.

I honestly have no idea what it could be, but am going to try to figure it out a bit more. In the meantime, any help is appreciated.

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Got it to work using Logic's built in "Controller Assignments" :party: (Logic Pro Menu > Control Surfaces > Controller Assignments).

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To control an fx plugin (like Zebrify) via MIDI in Logic, the best method I found is this:

-do not load the effect as an insert in an existing channel
-instead, create a new “software instrument” track and as its input choose Zebrify from the list of “AU-MIDI controlled Effects”
-this creates a new track that allows you to send MIDI data to the effect
-now you can assign CCs via Zebrify’s MIDI learn function in the same way it works in Zebra
-and this way you can also send MIDI notes to Zebrify, which might be needed for some of its presets

-now, to send any audio into Zebrify, look at the top right corner above the Zebrify plugin interface
-there is a “Side-Chain” option where you can choose the Logic track you want to send into Zebrify
-or, if you want to send audio from multiple tracks into the plugin, you could create a send-bus, and choose this bus as the Side-Chain input for Zebrify

There might be more elegant ways to solve this issue, but not being a Logic expert, this is the only way I found right now.
Hope this helps.
That QA guy from planet u-he.

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Thanks for the tip. MIDI routing and connection is definitely not a strong point in Logic.

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