[Rwp] Can I assign a knob on a control surface to affect volume and pan easily?

[Chris Belle]

You've got to be careful  asigning random raw midi controls to actions, 
because you can surely run in to a situation where things will conflict.

  The last touched track for volume is probably safe, but with no 
pre-defined control surface dll to sus out what needs to go where when, 
you can end up with a situation ;where you think you've smartly assigned 
many controls where they need to go only to find they are conflicting 
with each other.
In other words, it's easy to think, ah ha,
  I'll just make actions to every knob on my control surface and assign 
all of  them to my custom control surface template.
actions, and all will be golden, think again.
If you don't believe me, ask Patrick, he has three surfaces, and he 
explained it a lot better than I am here,
it's just too damned bad this wasn't standardized along with midi back 
in the day,
and each DAW has it's own pros, cons, and caveats,  and methods to do this.

If you're only gonna do a couple, you are probably ok, but just letting 
you know, there are a lot of pot holes in the road for just assigning 
controlers this way on the fly with raw midi.
if you are going to do more than a few.

But experimenting is fun, see how far you get.






On 9/21/2015 5:56 PM, theoreomonster--- via RWP wrote:
> actually you can easily assign it to control more than just the last touched track. it can be set to assign any   specific track as well. You can assign a midi controller to an action the same way you do a keyboard shortcut in the actions list as well as for stuff like that there are actions that you can only assign midi to.
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>> On Sep 21, 2015, at 5:24 PM, onlineeagle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
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>> I think I've worked it out. You can assign a midi control knob or fader to affect the volume of the last touched track. This can be done in actions list. Hope this helped. Yes, thanks David, that was a perfect explanation thank you.
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>> Sent from my iPhone
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>>> On 21 Sep 2015, at 14:18, onlineeagle <onlineeagle at googlemail.com> wrote:
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>>> Hi, so I gave you the weekend off. I can easily use the learn function to assign plugin controls to a fadar, knob or button on my keyboard. I was wondering if this was doable with track volumes and pan?
>>>
>>> Sent from my iPhone
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