A last note on this, after some time using it.
There is a bit of awkwardness (no more than that) with the Knob Absolute/Relative knob settings. In Absolute mode, they work with MIDI-CC and MIDI-CAT. best with MIDI-CAT because of all the extra utlities, locking parameters, custom labels etc. Once you have twiddled all the knobs, the CC values are picked up.
The difficulty is when you change patches. The minilab knobs remember their CC values - but of course you can’t see them because of their endless nature. So when the new patch starts up, you do have to twiddle the knobs to pick up the values. MIDI-CAT has three useful modes for this pickup, but in practice your going to loose your settings saved with patch.
The ideal thing would be Relative mode, so the knobs only change the value from it’s read-in-setting. It’s no doubt that @stoermelder 's MIDI-STEP and PILE give the best result, but you’d need 16 individual PILE modules to map all the knobs using relative mode.
Not a complaint or a call to action. Just a note that might be helpful. Although if a version of PILE with 16 I/Os is in the pipeline, then I’d be delighted for one…