Bring Instance into focus from controller - Mac

Gig Performer on Mac OS X
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I have searched and can’t find the answer. Please forgive me if this is obvious. I have tried to find the answer before posting.

A little preface about my situation. I am a keyboard player. My gig requires flexibility vs set patches. I have decided that I want to run multiple instances of Gig Performer so that I can change each keyboard to a separate presets while not affecting the others. I am routing all the instances audio to a master instance to handle processing before going out to speakers. I like to touch the computer as infrequently as possible and prefer complicated midi mapping to insure I can do it with hardware.

Is it possible to switch focus to a particular instance with midi? I can’t any menu options or keyboard shortcuts that I can automate. I have seen options for Windows on here but can’t seem to find it for Mac. I know that I can use shortcuts to cycle through windows but I want to specify a specific window and jump to that. Is this possible? I have attempted to achieve this with Apple Shortcuts, AppleScript, and Bome Midi Translator to no success. Does anyone have any suggestions for me?

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There’s some useful info about Mac keyboard shortcuts and MIDI here:

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Thanks for the quick response. From what I see CommandPost allows you to specify specific key commands that you can trigger with midi. I can’t find a key command that will let me focus a specific instance.

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From the limited amount I know about Mac keyboard shortcuts, I think you are only able to cycle through open apps. Which, if you had two instances of GP as the only open apps running, would be enough, right? Trigger the key command and the focus switches to the other open instance.

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Yeah, that might be what I end up doing. I can do that in Bome too. I just wanted to potentially run 4-5 different instances for different things, CPU and Ram dependent. So, I wanted to see if it was possible.

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