Best practices for VST VCV Rack 2

VCV Rack
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I just bought the VCV Rack 2 - both because of how I believe author of such amazing software and community has to get paid, as well as I wanted to use the VST plugins. :slight_smile:

Is there any manual / best practices for the VST version specifically?

I got my way around using MIDI and CC in Ableton - works like a charm, no problem! - but Iā€™m wondering if thereā€™s some way of mapping VST ā€œparametersā€ (not sure if itā€™s called this way) to CV. Use case - I lovel Abletonā€™s M4L LFOs and other plug-ins that I can automate and are an inherent part of my workflow. Iā€™d like to be able to map to some of CVs inside the VCV Rack VST. I can go around with midi CC messages, but only partially - like Ableton for example ā€œconsumesā€ all MIDI on the first plug-in instance and workarounds are quite ugly (routing through more channels sends/returns).

Is there some recommended workflow for such an use-case? The best-best way would be to map some knobs directly, but I can understand if thatā€™s difficult to implement or even goes against the modular ideas - then a 2nd good option would be to have a ā€œVST paramsā€ module with CV outputs.

Thanks again for the great work over the years!

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You can map knobs directly to Ableton automation lanes if that helps?

On the VCV device in Ableton, click on configure, then touch a knob or whatever in VCV and you can now have an automation lane for it.

Not sure about mapping a Max4Live LFO to VCV but let us know if you figure it out :slight_smile:

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Once youā€™ve a ā€œconfiguredā€ a parameter in the device as Steve has mentioned you should be able to just map the LFO as you normally would with Ableton devices.

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Yes it does work! I missed that, thanks. :slight_smile: Now we need a convenience multiple-knobs-to-CVs module with renamable parameters so we can combine those with other CVs (or is there one?).

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im having problems using automation in ableton, everytime i turn a knob or push a slider it appear in the ableton automation lane but as soon as i release the mouse it toggles back to reserved and whatever was there is removed from the dropdown list

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If it works the same way as in Bitwig, what might work is to click (without changing the value) the control youā€™d like to automate - then it isnā€™t replaced by ā€œReservedā€

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that worked. weird.

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i had the same problem. it works you just gotta use mouse parkour and click the right thing at the right time . i did it a couples times but i didnt know what made it work or fail ĀÆ_(惄)_/ĀÆ