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Old 01-15-2018, 03:27 PM   #25
ashcat_lt
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Kontakt's Host Automation is just a way to "expose" parameters inside the plugin to the DAW so that it can automate them. Most plugins just have whatever parameters they think are important to automate available and you can't really change it. That would be extremely limiting with Kontakt because it does so many different things. So they gave it a way for YOU to decide which ones are there. What your DAW does with that is completely up to it.

In Reaper, once those parameters are "exposed" they're available for everything that Reaper can do with automatable parameters. This includes envelopes, Learn, Parameter Modulation, linking and etc.

Logic seems to have a dedicated MIDI track type which sends to a dedicated Instrument track type. You can't even see the instrument track in what we would call the Arrange view, but it's automatable parameters apparently can show up as envelopes on the MIDI tracks that feed them. That's not at all how Reaper works. We have universal tracks that can be any or all of those things, but that also means that a track sending to another track doesn't know or care what's happening on that other track and it certainly can't know what parameters are available for Automation on that other track.

If Reaper's Automation was more like Control Voltage where we it's just another item on a track that you can route to whatever parameter you want, we'd be a lot closer. The devs don't seem particularly interested in going that way, and the question (raise above) of having actually useful values displayed on those tracks is one of the complications of that approach that I haven't yet considered.
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