Multiple Controls Pass Through Behaviour

[playinmyblues]

Hi. After creating a decent synth drums type patch in miRack. I have decided to try to expand its functionality by creating a system where I can change multiple CV’s in the patch by using two buttons and one fader. Each set of two buttons and one fader allows me to change up to 8 separate CV’s. I have a working system that is great up until the next time I go to edit that CV and then the CV immediately jumps to whatever value the fader is set.

I am using an Arturia Keylab Essentials MIDI keyboard and I think I might be able to rectify the situation by using the DAW setting. Using the other User settings on the Keylab also causes a CV jumping behaviour. I do not want to really use the DAW setting but might have to. I want to continue to use the User setting that I already have setup. I am also using a Korg nanoKontrol2 along with the Keylab Essentials and have the basic controls all assigned.

I am not the best at figuring out this type of thing quickly and am wondering if anybody has done this type of thing before.

To be a lot more clear, imagine use one bank of CC controls, say 8 knobs, 16 buttons and you want each set to give you an expansion of up to 8 x 8 controls = 64. Maybe I just should have said that.

[playinmyblues]

Mmmmm… rethinking my approach. I will show both ways after I do some work on it with the new idea. This after watching a few minutes of VCV Rack videos and wondering how much I might have to watch while searching for a possible solution.

Has nobody tried this before? The premise is summarized fairly well in the last paragraph of the first post in this thread.

[Jens.Peter.Nielsen]

There is a plugin in VCV Rack for something similar - but it’s written for the Arturia Minilab 3. Source code is available, so you might be able to adapt it for your specific use.

Minilab3 by ldlework

Minilab3 A pad-multiplexer for Aturia’s Minilab3 & VCV Rack [image] Imagine you had hundreds of MIDI knobs and mod wheels. For each pad on the Minilab3, pressing it will get you a whole new set of the non-pad surfaces. If I just twist the Minilab3’s first knob. We get red activity. But if I hold down the first pad, an independently tracked blue knob value comes out of the expander module: [Minilab3 module] Feature Summary Selectively route MIDI through expander modules Multiplex MIDI by …

Or a patch from scratch involving clever use of Stoermelder MIDI-MAP modules using the pick-up modes maybe ?

docs/midicat/MidiCat.md

[Jens.Peter.Nielsen]

I posted once or twice about similar challenges, maybe you can use some ideas from it.

MIDI CC to CV selection(s)

This came up in Discord - I think it’s good enough to share here: Use two midi knobs to control eight CV’s - with soft takeover: knob one → select one of eight CV outputs knob two → value of CV output (=Multivoltimetro) - the value stays unchanged until it matches the value of the knob (soft takeover). [image] 2xknob_to_8xCC_soft_takeover.vcvs (16.8 KB) Please comment, if you know a better/simpler way to do this ?

Using Push 2 as controller for VCV Rack

Push2, controlling Rack2 Free (without Ableton Live) I show 8 knobs switched with 8 buttons, only two groups are done. You can copy/paste the 8xPILE+1*SPLIT’s with wires for the remaining 6 buttons. You only have to move the poly wire from the pasted split to the matching output on “Triggered switch”. [image] Patch saved as a VCV selection. File → Import Selection to load. push2_template_2x8.vcvs (22.5 KB) The push2 knobs 1-8 rotation are mapped in the MIDI-STEP module - and mode is set t…

[playinmyblues]

Thanks for those, I had a quick look at the first patch in VCV Rack. I need to have a good look at it to figure it out. I cannot get the ranges quite right on the knob that controls which output is the target. But it looks like this is what I am looking for, at first glance anyway. I will have to demo my current methods, maybe even create a small VCV Rack version as not a whole lot of people are still using miRack. I just love using the iPad for this type of thing though.

[playinmyblues]

After having another look at that first patch and tracing through some signal paths, I saw your use of a 1:8 sequential switch, I have been using that in mine too. And that allows me to track the control visually.