I’m sure this is an easy one - but I haven’t found anything on this, and it would be a great start into GP scripting if you ladies and gents could help me along on this one first, if you don’t mind.
Situation is this: I’d like to route my MIDI input (keyboard) to EITHER ONE of two VST plugin synthies BY FOOTSWITCH. So I can toggle between brass and piano sound by pressing one of the buttons on my Icon G-Board.
It sounds so simple - probably I don’t need no scripting at all, could this be trhe case?
General thoughts: If you actually want to switch the MIDI input, you’d have to take care of not generating hanging notes by cutting the MIDI connection!
If your system can bear the two plugins playing at once, you maybe should go for just muting/unmuting channels of a mixer block where both plugins go into… you could also consider using something like a crossfade - either you can build something like that with internal tools (mixer block / fader widgets) or you could use a ready made plugin, like one from Melda…
Did as you said - but the “INVERT” toggle I put on on of the panel buttons doesn’t seem to have any effect - they BOTH go on and off when I press the footswitch.
Button “PIano”: Plugin A “Bypass Plugin”, Group “A”, “Mom to Latch”, Learned to Footswitch
Button “Brass”: Plugin B “Bypass Plugin”, Group “A”, “Mom to Latch”, “MIDI INVERT”, no learning
→ both switch off/on at the same time, so Plugs A and B are boith on or off
Working solution for now:
Button “PIano”: Plugin A “Bypass Plugin”, Group “None”, “Mom to Latch”,Learned to Footswitch
Button “Brass”: Plugin B “Bypass Plugin”, Group “None”, “Mom to Latch”, “MIDI INVERT”, Learned to Footswitch
I got that. Butt the effect still is that BOTH plugins are switched off/on an the same time even if one of the toggles is inverted - I can hear it in my phones at the output.
I think in my case: the “INVERTED” toggle in the “MIDI” tab doesn’t seem to have any effect.
Is there another way to invert the toggle value?
I was seeing there might be some confusion between the ‘Invert’ button on the MIDI tab, and the ‘Reverse’ button on the Value tab. Judging by the first post only, I am thinking the ‘Reverse’ on the second widget is what’s needed?
Why are you MIDI inverting a button that’s not even MIDI learned?
Your second button should have its VALUE reverted/inverted, not MIDI and things will work properly
May I suggest at this point to try to go through the GP manual and get familiar with some of the basics. I think it will help you a lot.
