External MIDI controller - vol/pan assignments change, changing tracks

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Hello Renoisers,

there’s a small problem, I have, which I don’t know, how to circumvent:

I plugged a MIDI-controller (novation ZeRO SLMkII) to my computer.

Renoise learns its controls without problems.

Now I’d like to assign all value providing controls - sliders and

knobs - to volumes and pannings in renoise. This works perfectly too,

but if a add/delete a track, things get messed up, because renoise

seems to map MIDI CCs to track numbers. (I’ll write a suggestion for

this too).

There’s a silly trick to avoid that problem with send-tracks but,

it’s not the method how send-tracks were meant to be used.

Does anyone have a clue ?

(Automap<->Duplex don’t work for me, please ask back, if you

want details for this! Thanks.)

Thanks for reading & regards,

René

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Now I’d like to assign all value providing controls - sliders and

knobs - to volumes and pannings in renoise. This works perfectly too,

but if a add/delete a track, things get messed up, because renoise

seems to map MIDI CCs to track numbers

Yes, this is true for the ‘track mixer device’, but not for any device in the DSP Chain.

For example, if you add a simple gainer device and map it, this will keep the mapping intact as you insert/remove tracks.

(Automap<->Duplex don’t work for me, please ask back, if you

want details for this! Thanks.)

I have the Zero SL MKII as well, works fine here.

Did you remember to load the supplied automap configuration and set the input/output ports?

(instructions on where to find the automap file is provided from virtual control surface in Duplex itself)

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There are “direct” mappings to mixer vol/pan too, which do move around with the track. To use them open the MIDI mapping dialog, expand the “Available & Active Mappings” thing, then click on “Parameter Mappings” -> “Track XX” -> “Mixer” -> “Volume”.

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Hello Danoise,

hello Taktik,

I tried direct mappings, which worked, and I did it with devices (Gainer),

which also worked.

But now I realised, I had to configure my device on the ->automap<- side,

so here I finally could bind certain control changes to every configurable

gizmo I wanted. I think I got the clue, how things work.

Now I’ll try to bind things against Duplex, then I’ll see…

Thank you both for your answers!

Regards,

René