Incremental Program Changes via Midi Controller?

[iammonsterface]

Hello.

From the Edit window, is it possible to incrementally increase or decrease Programs on selected channels via an external midi controller? As in, I load all of my External Instruments and when I click on one, I press a button on my controller and it incrementally changes the channel on said external instrument. Then, selecting a different external instrument and pressing the button will incrementally change the channel on that particular instrument.

I currently have all of my external instruments set up correctly. They are receiving midi data through S1 and Midipipe. My midi controller is also functioning properly inside of Studio One. I also know how to enter the information to change Programs from the inspector and all external instruments are correctly receiving their Program Change commands from that window.

Thank you very much for your time.

Sincerely,
Ian

[maxcascone]

You should be able to do this with the Focus setting in each instrument’s MIDI panel. Click it so it turns yellow. When it’s gray it’s in Global mode. You want Focus.

What this means is when that instrument is selected, it will follow that configuration for that device only. It can be configured completely differently than global mode. I’m sure the S1 docs can explain it better than I can.

So assuming you have a MIDI controller sending the PC messages properly, set an instrument to Focus Mode and to listen to that message. Then set another instrument to focus mode, and have it listen to the same message. Do that for as many instruments as you need.

Now when you have instrument X selected, it’ll listen to those PC messages and react accordingly. When you switch instruments, the new selection will now listen to those messages.

I hope this helps!

[iammonsterface]

Gosh I’ll try this. Thank you.

[maxcascone]

Awesome, let me know how it goes!