Easy beginner's question - controlling VST effects with MIDI footswitch

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A newbie here with Gig Performer, but already highly impressed! I’m now in the process of transforming my live rig to a fully GP based setup.

A question that I couldn’t find answered (or asked) in any of the tutorials. I have a MIDI footswitch (Hotone Ampero Control), and I would like to use that to toggle on/off VST effects (say a Lost in the 70s Live Pedalboard). In the wiring view, however, I’m not able to wire the Hotone to the VST effect, as it accepts audio inputs only. How should I wire the Hotone so that it would control the VST effect?

Yeah I know, there’s probably a very simple answer to this, but bear with me!

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You would add widgets in a panel, map the parameters you wanted to control to those widgets, and then learn your various MIDI controls to them.

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Thanks edm11! That means that in the wiring view I don’t have to wire the footswitch MIDI IN block to anything, but just to have it floating there?

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You don’t even need to add a MIDI In block for controls you will map to widgets. You can Learn them directly from the Widget Properties dialog area you see in my example above.

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Fantastic - thank you edm11!

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An advance oprion will using the midi in (omni) to send all the midi inputs to the connected vsts on wire view, is not that complicated and in some cases will be even better, for instance a midi keyboard connected to kontackt via this midi in block. But it depends the needs

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But when using the Omni you could face a midi loop when using virtual midi.

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I don’t understand how you can connect a footswitch using a Midi Block and what the point of that would be instead of using automation, which is designed to do this more easily and more reliably.

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You don’t connect it. Midi in omni receives all midi in messages from a midi controller connect it to a computer. There might be some scenarios i think. As i mentioned , how would you connect a midi keyboard (with All its keys) to a kontakt sample ? There is an option to select the controller within kontakt even when you use it standalone. You could select it also in GP or bypass the midi messages with the midi block. Why would you use automation to do key by key when you can just select the midi device? I always think out of the box and maybe there are more scenarios so I wouldn’t say is not useful this approach

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When you are using Kontakt in Gig Performer you cannot select the controller, or do I miss something?

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@pianopaul
Ok, to be honest, i haven’t tried that. I assume that if it could be done in standalone, it could be done within gp, but if not, then more power to me. Idk what other way could be possible without automation in a fast way. I am using the free version, the kontakt player, so any other version i assume should be the same

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That makes absolutely no sense - to choose a physical MIDI device within a plugin used in Gig performer.

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