How do you relaunch the installer to install something else (and a CC question!)

[ulrichburke]

Dear Anyone.

Hokay, so this should be obvious but I'm not as geeky as I should be! When I downloaded the Melda installation thingy (tech. term there!) it came up with a Mass List of everything they do. Being a dumbass, I didn't realise GREEN meant 'Yes I want that one' and WHITE meant 'No thanks!' I got it the wrong ways around. So I've ended up installing a ton of plugins which are all fascinating - but I'll probably never use them!

What I WANT to be able to do is automate volume via CC7. That's it. I've got a bunch of synth. VSTs that make wonderful noises - but you can't automate their volume. So I was hoping one of the Melda plugins - freebie preferably (of course!) but paid-for if not - would let me automate volume via CC7. I don't care what other magical things it does (at the moment!) as long as it does that!

When I realised I'd gotten the colours wrong in the installer and installed a ton of things I didn't want, I thought I'd just re-launch the installer and uninstall those and install the ones that looked hopeful for the above task. Except I can't find a way to relaunch the installer. There's no desktop shortcut that I can see and when I went to Program Files and double-clicked the .EXE, it thought I wanted to uninstall the installer. I don't, I just want to change what I've got installed.

Please, which of all these excellently designed plugins - like I said, free if poss., paid-for if not - will let me automate volume via CC7? Or if none of them do that, do you know anything which will? I've tried the Blue Cat one but it only works on MIDI Input Channel One, not on any other channels. I would love to be able to load up my non-CC7-controllable synths, write a tune with them and control their individual volumes via CC7 via a plugin of some sort! (Doesn't have to be Melda, if someone knows something else that works - it's just I know the Blue Cat one doesn't.)

Hope someone here knows how to do the above, I've got one lovely VST called Osiris which I've never been able to use because it's permanently stuck on whatever volume it starts off at!

Yours respectfully

Chris.

[teilo]

What DAW are you using? The ability to do MIDI learn on track controls is almost a universal DAW feature. Just use the DAW to assign CC7 to your track's volume. You can even record the volume automation for replay.

Also, you say you have a lot of synths. But surely most of those synths have their own MIDI learn function, which would allow you to assign a CC to the output volume control of the synth.

Additionally, almost every DAW in existence will let you map a CC to an automation parameter, and the VSTs output volume will certainly be one of those controls.

So you have three ways to do this without extra plugins. Even if you were to use a plugin, you would still have to map CC7 to the control of your choice. None of them are going to do that for you.

[teilo]

As for the installer - I don't understand what you are having issues with. You downloaded the installer and you ran it. Just run it again. It's probably in your Downloads folder. If not, download it from Melda again and run it.