If you want I can provide an example on controlling a few LED’s.

You may want to look around for an example on our forum for some other user. The best way to control the LED’s would be to use the Sys Ex protocol that they define in their programming manual. Then you have dedicated controllers like all the ones for Live (Push, Launchpad, APC40, etc.) and NI's Komplete controllers.The Launch Control XL MIDI LED map is quite different than that of the APC MINI.

But the user still has to create the rack and assign the macros. A lot of controllers work well with Live racks because they present 8 macros (far from enough to fully control any softsynth more complicated than a 303) which easily map to 8 knobs. This is where Nektar conrollers get their value, they do all the mapping for 'popular' DAWs and softsynths so it just works. The only controller templates that really work out of the box are those that are created by the controller mfrs themselves. you press down on the encoder) but some Novation controllers do have these. The empty fields are because the Nocturn has no sliders or encoder butons (i.e. Automap filled out the ranges of the controls, which in the LaunchControl editor you would enter manually.

Automap extracted this from the VST, I simply reordered the parameter order to line up properly with the knobs and buttons.simple cut and paste. If you look at the 'Param' fields in the file, it's essentially the same information that you would be providing in the LaunchControl editor. I won't bother to show you the file for u-he Diva which has 17 pages of controls (136 knobs, 136 buttons although not all may be used). Here's the file, after editing to taste:Īs you can see, it's written in a simple markup language. If I had a few more knobs and buttons, more pages would have been in the file. So this is a simple device that maps easily to the available controls. I used Automap to wrap this for my Nocturn controller which has 8 endless encoders and eight buttons. The VST is the Camel Crusher compressor.Īs you can see, it has 7 knobs and 5 buttons. I suggest you watch some Novation tutorial videos to see how this works (they do not explore the text editing, though). This is not difficult, but it takes time and needs to be done for each controller you plan to use with each softsynth. I have found that you always need to edit the wrapper after it is generated. The Automap wrapper can be edited further through a GUI or in a text editor (the template is just text). So if say filter cutoff and resonance are not adjacent in the list, they won't be on adjacent controls. It also assigns them in the porder they are in the list. It can assign controls to buttons that should be assigned to knobs and voice versa. Automap reads the VST parameter list and assigns each parameter to a control on the Automap device. You mean like Automap? LaunchControl doesn't support Automap, in fact I think Novation is phasing it out.it's about a decade old now so 1000 years old in digital yearsĪre you familiar with how VSTs present parameters to a DAW? In some DAWs like Ableton Live you can view the list directly.

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