Sub-presets?

Question

Hello,

I'm currently using the midi designer to control a Muse Receptor with rack interface.

I implemented a wireless interface on the receptor to work wirelessly with the midi designer (anyone interested?).

I'm currently experiencing the following problem:

The receptor lets you create presets, and group them in a tag. The TAG lets you load all instruments for a given set at once, then change their parameters in realtime. Using the tag to select different sections for a song is a bit slow, so it's not usable.

So I was thinking in making "presets" in the midi designer, so I could use the program change to switch between songs, and, for each song, program a verse section, a chorus section, and so on. Every section is different in each song.

Actually, the "preset" function in the midi designer seems to do what I'd like to do: I put a fader for each synth vst available in the receptor;  then, for example, I raise the 1st synth volume to maximum and low the other ones for an intro, saving it as preset 1. Then, for the verse, I raise two other faders and put the first one down, then save it as preset 2.

Finally, I create buttons to switch between the various presets.

Problem is I just have 20 presets: with this configuration, for example for 10 songs which got an intro, a verse, a bridge, a chorus and a solo, I'd need 50 presets. And our songs are way more complex than that.

Anybody sees an alternate solution?

Thanks

Comments

Sorry for the delay. I'll be circling back to this question shortly

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Have you seen presets for Groups?

http://mididesigner.com/presets16/

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Yeah I think it could be a way to store lot of presets. But a question. Could I create a main "knob/fader" as a "Song selector", plus a sub-knob for "Scene selector"? Every "song" has one or more "scenes, the song selector is a supercontrol of the scene selector (for example, song 1 scenes 1-10, song 2 scenes 2-20, and so on. Don't really know how to implement this, though).

The problem with different controls for each song remains, though - for example, one song could have a special section, another one three or four sections, each one with a different part.

Maybe it would be less tricky if we could have a structure made with "patches", so you can save each song as a single patch, with its layout, controls, channels, etc, then switch thru each one with a "prev patch" and "next patch" button. Maybe mididesigner isn't designed for doing such things?

Thank you for your support

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Are you always controlling the same set of controls?

You can definitely have a set of buttons that step through a preset group knob by 10s and another set of buttons that step through by units... use steppers and differing numbers of ticks in supercontrols... I can show you how this works if you'd like