Choose Snow TI Channel remotely - Any ideas?

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by Luddite

Many thanks for making the effort. I will try this in the studio. I am not sure if it is quite what I was after though. It is not the ability to change patches alone that I would like but the ability to edit patches that are on different outputs of the TI VST. This means having them displayed in the LCD display. Let me see though if your method actually not only plays a particular patch (no reason why it shouldn't) but also brings that patch into the LCD window (here's hoping!)

Many thanks. Will let you know how I get on!

I think I got too caught up in the changing of patch solutions and didn't really address the on-the fly editing of patches. I still think you would need to do something (the specifics are going to be a little different for each DAW) to set up the routing between the DAW and the MIDI parameters you want to change. I'm guessing you could do that pretty easily with Automap software, if you have a Novation controller as your primary or are willing to get one, then when the controller is in Automap mode, you could assign separate knobs even to the edits you want to make for each patch (I assume fairly simple ones like cutoff).

I'll be honest though, I think editing multiple patches while gigging live is something most folks would use separate hardware instruments for, just because its so much easier to set up and keep it working (albeit a more expensive approach). I think any other solution is going to be inherently wonky and risk prone. Gigging on stage is the one time where simplicity and reliability really takes priority, it's not good when the shit hits the fan in front of an audience

[Luddite]

Many thanks again for the reply. Yes, what you say is all sensible. I am not sure though that I want to be using more midi controllers as there are a lot of functions to assign even if I just do the essentials. I hear what you are saying about live editing being risky but I find Snow quite straight forward. I've never "lost" a sound or anything whilst making changes. It all adds to fun anyway.
Imagine though even if you only wanted to do live edits with the so-called soft knobs, you still have the same problem in TI mode. Namely that we need to go back into the VST before we can make edits on the device itself. Not good in a live situation.
Let me see though if your solution works somehow. Otherwise I will write to Access directly for advice.

Many thanks again!

[MBTC]

Originally Posted by Luddite

Many thanks again for the reply. Yes, what you say is all sensible. I am not sure though that I want to be using more midi controllers as there are a lot of functions to assign even if I just do the essentials. I hear what you are saying about live editing being risky but I find Snow quite straight forward. I've never "lost" a sound or anything whilst making changes. It all adds to fun anyway.
Imagine though even if you only wanted to do live edits with the so-called soft knobs, you still have the same problem in TI mode. Namely that we need to go back into the VST before we can make edits on the device itself. Not good in a live situation.

Will look forward to your update to see how things go. I quoted the above because I wanted to point out that I think we're on the same page in the sense that editing on the instrument itself is always going to be fairly fool proof and reliable (that was what I meant when I said I think the only way you would achieve same reliability/ease is to have multiple hardware instruments in a live environment). Unless the instrument itself gives you an easy way to navigate between currently loaded singles that constitute a multi, I think there's probably an alternative solution (perhaps even what I suggested), but it's going to come with some tradeoffs that will be less than solid compared to what you're doing with a single active patch now.

Do let us know! Best of luck.