Gottcha - thanks Sascha, what a revelation! Now if we can just automate 3rd party plug-ins.... Jules ----- Original Message ----- From: Sascha Franck <saschafranck@...> To: <logic-users@onelist.com> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 11:37 AM Subject: Re: [LUG] [LAW] Fastest Filter > From: "Sascha Franck" <saschafranck@...> > > >From: "Jules Bromley" <julien@...> > > > >Any chance you could explain briefly how you automate Autofilter in > >Hyperdraw (I'm yet to successfully automate any plug-in). > > > It depends on where you have your autofilter setted. > Most likely plugins like that are used in a channel insert. > In that case the easiest way is to create a new sequence (uhm, see my other > post on this subject). > Set that sequence to hyperdraw > other, default keycommand for that is > shift+F3 (Windows). Press return when the dialogue box pops up. Now go to > the value field and scroll through the parameters, the individual parameters > of autofilter will be listed there. > To find out which is which, open the autofilters (or any other plugins) > editor, better don't use the graphic interface, start "counting" the > parameters from top. remember which parameter you want to automate, enter > that one in the hyperdraw dialog box and there you go. > > Tip: If autofilter (or any other plugin) is the first inserted plugin and > you'd like to aurtomate the very first of it's parameters you will find the > CC to be 64. This is a bad controller for automating many things as it's an > on/off contorller since it derives from MIDI CC64 which is sustain on/off. > In that case open any "fake" plugin in an insert slot before the > to-be-automated plugin. This plugin will now "catch" CC64. Setup hyperdraw > after that. The automated plugin will now show up with some higher CC > numbers. > After that you could disable the "fake" plugin as the changes are kept once > there's data on the hyperdraw sequence. > > Sascha > >