I recently acquired a second hand Access Virus B. Having a lot of fun with it so far.
I’m wanting to control the cutoff, res, filters, oscs nd so on from Renoise directly. I also like to play it manually, but it’s nice when you want to do more epxerimental stuff with it, or just do extra automation.
So far I’m just using Renoise’s built in MIDI Instr Control device.
Now the problem is, I can only create a very small amount of parameters, last night I started mapping all of them and I got about 70% done and had to make 6 lots of them, so in other words, I’d need 6 instances of the MIDI Iinstr Control devie.
It’s not a complete train wreck, but when I’m scrolling through automation, I’m going to have to go through each of these looking for the parameters I want. I obviously don’t need ALL of them, but I wanted to map them all in case I need them for later.
Is there a better way of doing this? I think there are some plugins/softwares like MIDI Quest that can be laoded as a VST, but I don’t have money for that right now and I’d rather keep it simple.
It would be really nice to have thE MIDI Instr list expanded, too few parameters per instance!
And lastly, as a suggestion to the developers. Could we have MIDI Learn in the MIDI Instr feature device? Like, if I hit CTRL-M, I want to be able to move the knob on my virus, and the MIDI CC value to automatically be detected.
ie: if Cutoff Frequency on the Virus knob has a MIDI CC #42, then if I turn the knob, I should be able to tell MIDI CC it’s #42, instead of reading the manual, or other means. A long work around is to put Renoise in edit mod, and then find out the value from the pattern editor that captures it.
Anyway, if someone wants my MIDI CC presets for the Access Virus B when I’m done, I’ll post them up here soon.
This is my first MIDI-aware synth, so please excuse any retardedness on my behalf, I may be taking the complete wrong approach here