Specific Device Chain Control
Hi there,
I’m new to CSS and mainly bought it because I had the hope it would solve a problem for me concerning specific device control.
Right now, I’m trying to set up a control surface that allows me to control the eight macros of an selected instrument rack (via chain selector) within an instrument rack. Please see the exampled device chain attached to this post.
I already made it to control all eight macros of all instrument racks within the instrument rack at the same time. Please see the screenshot of the script manager in CSS. However, as I’m using this method as a VST preset selector, I only want to change the macros of the currently selected instrument rack.
What I thought could work, is to set up a ‘mode’ for every instrument rack in the chain selector which is then switched via a ‘mode selector’. I tried this, but the only controls available for the mode selection are PGM (program change messages) which are not supported in CSS.
Another option I read about is to use the ‘select device’ function to keep an focus on the currently chain selected device. Unfortunately, I’m not sure how to do this. This thread goes in a similiar direction concerning drum racks:
https://remotify.io/community/question/drum-rack-question
Hope that somebody could help me out on this. Thanks in advance.
I’ll try that as soon as I got home from work. Thank your for your thoughts Greg!
Best, Nic
So I tested everything out and the device selection as well as the control of the eight macros works just fine. The only issue is that I need to use this first encoder (knob 1) as the device selector and it can’t really be used as a macro knob anymore. Take a look:
https://drive.google.com/open?id=1o57Hn1d2VPhXDmUeR2bCD_ejHUZ-9UYY
Normally I’m controlling the device selector (sound selector) with TouchOSC on the iPad in order to select the respective preset. For example, TouchOSC controls the device selector for synth 1 with just one CC, in this case CC1/Ch. 14. It also controls the device selector for synth 2 accordingly with CC2/Ch. 14, and so on.. I’ve attached a screenshot on this.
Is it possible that the ‘select device’ function is controlled by this rather than being controlled by knob 1?
Thank you for your help.
What if I set up a second control surface for that TouchOSC template that controls the device select and the ‘select device’ function?
Would the controller still control just the selected device or are is this just working when it’s also selecting the device?
Hi,
I’m not sure I 100% understand what you are trying to achieve, but one thing I noticed from your videos is that when you are switching devices, the selected device is only selected with the blue hand.
For CSS, the selected device is the one that’s highlighted. our Device Select Mappings should highlight devices where as maybe TouchOSC only changes the blue hand?
Hi John,
You were right, TouchOSC only changes the focus of the blue hand but doesn’t select the actual device. I made it to create a control surface for TouchOSC with CSS as well and added the ‘select device’ function. Now everything works nearly fine, this gives me a lot more control over the macro knobs of each instrument.
However, what I’m trying to figure out now is how I can get the control surface to communicate bi-directional with Ableton as already mentioned in this thread: https://remotify.io/community/question/bi-directional-communication
This is really important when switching devices via the device selector in order to display the correct values of the macros on the endless encoders of my controller (0-127). As far as I understood I need to setup ‘Reactions’ to achieve this, but the explanation given in the tutorial doesn’t really help me with that: https://remotify.io/tutorials/sending-custom-led-feedback-your-midi-cont…
How can I solve this in CSS?
Thanks for your help.
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