Peter Ostry <po@ostry.com> wrote: > If you want to exclusively use your controller keyboard (which makes > sense) the "custom" MIDI messages are probably the best way because > the Controller Assignments of Logic are not manageable and they don't > support third party plugins. > > Best start is to catch the incoming messages from your keyboard, > transform them into something usable for a plugin and cable the > result directly to one or more audio objects. You will only need > transformers for that. Later you might add faders to change > parameters and cable switchers to select certain routes and/or audio > objects. That should give you enough to learn for the first week ;-) Peter, what do you mean by "the Controller Assignments of Logic are not manageable and they don't support third party plugins." does this mean if I want to use Kontakt as one of my software instruments, I can't control it in real time? also, in a later message in this thread, you suggest a solution to sample load time for multiple patches that might be played during a gig: you suggested using a cable switcher connected to all the pre-loaded instruments (I assume it would be ok to have multiple instances of Kontakt or other synths loaded with different patches/samples) and then mute and un-mute different combinations of cables to get the desired real time patch changing and layering. Am I understanding this correctly? Could each set of muting events (used to create the resulting patch/sound) be selected at random with program control messages from a midi foot controller? Are there any examples of this I can see as a starting point? thanks, Steve