[Ardour-Users] Adding MIDI CC automation

[Paul Davis]

Ardour 5 is considered EOL'ed at this point. We released 6.5 a month ago
and 6.6 will be out soon-ish.

On Mon, Jan 18, 2021 at 12:08 AM ‪‪jamshark70 at zoho.com‬‬ <
jamshark70 at zoho.com> wrote:

> > I was looking at MIDI editing in Ardour 5. After creating a MIDI track
> with sfizz as the instrument, I could see options to automate CCs 7
> (volume), 10 (pan), and 11 (expression). But I need CC 1.
> >
> > I couldn't find any panel to configure CC numbers that I expect to use,
> and the page in the online manual is empty.
>
> Strangely, the problem resolved automatically after reloading the project.
> I guess it didn't get complete information from the plugin at first, and
> never updated after I chose the sfz to play.
>
> But I have to abandon this approach, since Ardour 5 doesn't reload the
> sfizz instance properly. The state file contains only the base name of the
> sfz file without the location -- so neither the sfz nor the scala tuning
> file are found. That means I'd have to either reopen every sfizz instance
> and reselect the instruments by hand every time I open the project, or hack
> the state.ttl files for all of them after every save. Maybe this is fixed
> in a later version...?
>
> So for now it will be Ardour MIDI tracks --> Carla SFZero plugins and
> piping the audio back to Ardour for mixing (Ardour does handle the
> connections gracefully).
>
> And this way, all CC numbers are available for automation immediately.
>
> hjh
>
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