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A virtual MIDI patch bay like the free https://soundigy.com/midipatchbay.php might help...

Cool... Let me know how it goes. Thanks for the thought on the vodka 😊

We're up to THREE! 😁 May as well try it out, if for nothing else than the fader soft settle feature so you don't get the clunks on exit...

Hi @Marc Waanders, Sorry about the late response... been out all day. Unfortunately, you can't use the EQ section the same way it works for the ProChannel EQ. When the surface is in ACT mode, the buttons and knobs in the EQ section will act as simple single-function assignable controls. It would have been possible to write the code so that the four buttons each selected a separate bank, but I decided against it. Since you can assign any of the Sliders, Solo buttons, Mute buttons, and Pan knobs as ACT controls for a plugin, it made more sense to keep the EQ section simple in ACT mode. Long ago I thought it would be cool to expand the functionality of those band select buttons to shift between four banks of ACT controls for the entire surface, but it seems there are only a couple people in the world that use the FW-1884 with Cakewalk so I kind of gave up on improving it.

Haven't had much time to work on these things lately, but I finally finished a new VST3 effect that allows you to route Midi on a track to any of 16 tracks based on pitch/note number: This could be useful to split a track meant for full strings into individual tracks for Violins, Violas, Celli, etc. Also useful to remap a drum track to individual tracks, since it's possible to transpose the note(s) in the target track. I'll try to give more detailed info later... You can grab it here.

Ahhh, I see you don't use Midi Modulator. It has a few parameters that can be assigned and controlled by CC's. It wouldn't be too difficult to add modulation to other effects. Any one in particular?

Hey Tom, Yeah, Midi from an external keyboard (or the virtual keyboard) or played from the track is routed through MidiFX, but when you click on notes in the PRV, they don't go through the MidiFX... That's just how the routing works in CbB/Sonar. You're right that even the built-in MFX have this limitation.

I'm about 6 miles east of the bay, just south of Tampa. No significant damage (except a bunch of shingle tabs), just a huge mess. I have more time than money so I don't mind the the endless chopping and sawing and trudging through water with dead bloated frogs in it. The lack of power sucked the most. The cold showers every day were, uh, special. The 8 inches of rain didn't bother me but the 6 hours of nightmare inducing wind... this is a concrete block house and it would vibrate. It's the first time I thought the roof might not survive. I heard I crunching, ripping sound a little before midnight. I thought a bunch of shingles had torn off, so I ran around shining a flashlight out of the windows. When I looked out at the front window, I saw that all three wrought iron supports that hold up the front porch had fallen. When the wind started coming from the north-east, it apparently raised the porch roof just enough to blow out the supports They aren't attached at the top or bottom, never thought they had to be... the porch roof is a gable off the main roof and weighs a few tons. Somehow the thing didn't collapse, but it would oscillate up and down just a little bit when the gusts hit. So, I spent an hour in the wind and rain trying to force them back into place. I'd shove and kick on the bottoms until they'd stay in place. When I worked on the next post, a huge gust would lift the roof just enough to cause the previous post to fall again. I eventually got all three to stick (all wonky and crooked), but I haven't been that scared in a long time... thought the porch roof could eventually break and squash me. That'll be fixed before the next storm... new posts with an internal steel cable to tie the roof to the porch floor.

Nah, no water in the house. It's about 4 feet higher than the driveway and the floor is 30 inches above the ground. If it floods, it's the apocalypse and I'll be dead anyway 😬 What you can't see behind me in the picture is the dozen or so of my neighbors fence panels that fell across my driveway... mostly broken and full of nails poking out. Except two side by side that survived because they were shielded from the wind by half of a large oak tree that broke off. They're still there, but I can get out through his driveway now after we cleared a path. He lost some big trees. Luckily, my weakling trees were knocked over or broken in half by Ian a couple years ago.

6 1/2 days without electricity and a completely blocked and flooded driveway... Fun! This is the last half of the driveway on Saturday... had to hack through heavy debris to get to this point. The water line on the fence is how deep the water was Thursday morning.

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Glad they're working for you! I see you named your song after one of Elon Musk's kids... 😉

Way to go knowing about a plugin that would be almost impossible to find for a mere mortal! 😁 Looks like there's a slightly newer version available dxshell_v1.0.5b.zip (8 years newer!) but according to the change log it only adds "midi program change message is not filtered anymore" I briefly considered writing a VST3 wrapper for the MFX since there are a lot of parallels between the two, but decided that it would be better to just rewrite the DX stuff as VST3 if the need arises. I'm still not a fan of Steinberg, partly because of statements like this "VST3 does not directly support MIDI. You can create note events and send them to an output queue." on the Steinberg forum (https://forums.steinberg.net/t/creating-a-midi-effect/201569). I don't understand Steinberg's seeming aversion to Midi handling in a VST. I'd rather have the MFX standard updated a bit and be available on a lot more DAWs. Alternatively, having the ability to drop a VST3 effect on a Midi track (if the effect was flagged something like "Fx|Midi") would be cool. I don't know which option is less impossible... getting most DAWs to support a common standard like MFX or getting Steinberg to fully (easily) support Midi in their interface.

Hey Dave... The note indicators are really just to give you some help if you're adjusting the response curve of your keyboard; they appear for external input data. The lines don't appear on playback because MFX plugins don't get the track data in real-time. It's supplied from the DAW in buffers before it's actually played, so if it was displayed, it would just be all the notes in that buffer appearing at once every quarter second or so (depending on the size of the buffer) before you actually heard them. I could technically create an internal clock and kinda fake a real-time display, but that would use up a lot of valuable CPU cycles. If you want to see how out of sync it is, try using controller data to modify parameters in MidiModulator. I do update that display so you can see that the parameters are changing, but it's definitely not in sync with the music. 😬

Sliding the clip under the loop caused it to break while I was debugging so I found what was causing it. I didn't try that in my first tests. Shouldn't happen, though (Doesn't happen in CbB or Sonar). I'll have a fix soon... Ok @Amberwolf, it should be fixed now. Grab it here.