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Old 04-29-2012, 03:53 AM   #52
TonE
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Thanks Banned for sharing your solution and explanation. I will install pd-extended once again, this time considering it as an extension to Reaper, similar to sws-extension.

Regarding your example setup: Why did you use 6 sends? For what are you using so many, or did you just want to fill up the empty midi space? I was considering only 4 sends, the typical first two for reverb and delay, then another two for more crazy stuff maybe. How was your thinking?

Probably in the beginning I would also not "waste" the midi space with send-pan, but others might see it differently. Instead I would add more controls like filter, eq mainly. But probably also not compression. This would be already too special, somehow, maybe, from my point of view. Not everything needs compression anyway, imo.

In general, I liked your mapping style for simplistic mapping. For my use case I would modify it to my needs, as described in a former posting here. I am splitting the entire midi space optimized for 36 tracks use as follows, using only midi channels 1..12, keeping channels 13..16 free for other possible uses:
36 tracks are organized as three banks of 12 tracks each:
- bank0: tracks 1..12
- bank1: tracks 13..24
- bank2: tracks 25..36

Each track in a bank has its own midi channel, examples:
- bank0, track1: channel 1
...
- bank0, track12: channel 12
- bank1, track13: channel 1
...
- bank1, track24: channel 12
- bank2, track25: channel 1
...
- bank2, track36: channel 12

Each track has 40 possible parameters, which can be controlled, and are mapped as follows:
for bank = 0/1/2: cc# = 1..40 + bank * 40
In short we are using cc numbers 1..120, in groups of 40, one group for one bank. Free is also cc=0, for other possible uses.

These are the mappings for the first 36 musical tracks, excluding the sends and busses, which can be added into the free midi space. Usually the sends I would add into those "40-parameter-space" for each track, if I want sends for each track, rather than for each bus-track.
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