I'm thinking about buying a midi controller to achieve a more intuitive way and focus on less gens, fxs and parameters.
Well, of course a lot of questions are highly individual like prize, knobs, faders, keys, pads and so on...
So my first and most important question is: Do I have to look for some technical prerequisites?
I've read key words like MidiMerge, Auto Mapping, peer machines, midi ox, virtualmidi and of course polacs vsti. But until now I've found no time and way to investigate further. It seems a good idea to me, first to buy a controller and then start to try things out in buzz. But it would be stupid if then I would realize, that I had bought a "wrong" device for my needs. So until now the main need is the compatibility towards buzz. To make it a bit clearer: to controll desired params with hardware faders/knobs. (is knob the right vocabular? I'm not talking about a trigger, but a thing you can turn to change the value... Sorry, not the best english...)
Okay, second question - Bindings: From what I've read I think the way to bind a parameter is first to assign e.g. a knob from a controller to a name in the buzz preferences (midi input controllers). After that that name would be available somewhere (where?) in the machine view to bind e.g. a parameter to. Is there something to read like a tutorial "hands on midi binding in buzz"?
I've found threads where x box controllers are used and whatsoever. So everything seems to be possible. But of course I want to start with the basics, which hopefully should be easier to achive...
Some Midi Controller seem to be delivered with software while others don't. Is this just additional stuff, like you get a controller with a sw-synth or a test version of ableton... Or is there software whichs works as an interface between the controller and buzz and which is responsible for some kind of bindings? If, it would be very important to choose, wouldn't it?
For example I've found the Akai MPK mini Mk2. It seems to offer quite a lot of opportunities in one cheap device. Would be sad to buy something, you can't use in buzz. So also concrete recommendations for a controller are of course welcome!
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last easy question: I've read that if you have a knob with a determined start and end point bound to param 1 with value 100 and bind it to param 2 with value 0 and now start going down, it will send 99 to param 2 which will lead to undesired behavior. Is this problem always fixed when the knobs can be turned forever? Or do I have to look for a technical keyword which indicates, that the knobs calculate the send-value from a before recieved current-value?
lotti
edit: some controllers offer to store presets - how does this work in combination with buzz?