MicroBrute Presets in MD?

Question

OK, here's a weird one for you...

I just recently obtained an Arturia MicroBrute, which doesn't store any presets. Sure, I could write it all down on paper, but that's not really efficient.

What I'm thinking I can do is this: replicate the MicroBrute in MIDI Designer (realizing that none of this MIDI works with the MicroBrute, or only marginally due to it's analog nature) to where I can change the setting on the iPad and then save it somehow as a patch.

Does this make ANY sense? I know I could just take a screenshot of the settings, but that doesn't seem very efficient somehow.

Any thoughts appreciated!

Comments

Makes total sense and it's a great  use-case for MD. The question is: what parameters are exposed via MIDI on the MicroBrute? Your preset could not consist of stuff that MD cannot control, and furthermore, you'd have to test two-connectivity. But: the best thing to do is to save a preset with ONE parameter and see how that works. Nothing like reality to answer your question.

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Actually not in possession of it (yet, being delievered today...)

As I understand it, the MicroBrute doesn't utilize much, if any MIDI other than the keyboard. So my intention with MIDI Designer is to simply make the changes via knobs and sliders that aren't actually set to send the MIDI data, they're there simply for reference.

So say I design a Bass patch on the hardware, I then mimick the knob/sliders settings in MIDI Designer, then save it somehow. Theoretically, i could then recall that particular Bass patch in MIDI Designer to reference when I make the actual changes on the hardware.

EDIT: OK, now in possession of the MicroBrute; hooking it up via USB to MAC OSX and watching MIDI Monitor, the only things it seems to transmit are note, pitch and modulation. Which I was aware of. Again, wasn't expecting MIDI Designer to control those paramaters, what I'm looking for is ways to save, say, snapshots or somesuch via MIDI Designer.

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Sorry, missed the notification that you had commented here.

The real question is going be what the manual says. What's exposed via MIDI? What it sends via MIDI might be a *small* subset of what it can receive (which would be good).