named ticks suffix: % Hz st ms

Question

MIDI Target Manufacturer(s): Ableton

Hi 

im new to midi designer today and have been doing a lot of reading and have it working with ableton live.  Im wanting to control soft synths in ableton live.

with named ticks, can i get the knob or slider to show the actual type of parameter eg percentage or frequency or time. i can see that i can do minimum and maximum values but there doesnt seem to be a way to append a suffix. 

• for a filter cutoff the hz/khz
• filter resonance %
• ADSR - milliseconds or seconds
• oscillator tune - semitones

also what if its frequency going from 30hz up to 22khz? would this work with the max min values? same for milliseconds to seconds for ADSR

thanks for help and sorry if its been covered. i did search the forum and have read the online manual.

Answer 1

Hi there and welcome aboard. 

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There is no way to have MIDI Designer add a suffix, you can do all of that via Named Ticks (which you've already noted).

Have you seen loading of named ticks from a file? 

Here's an example, and another example. Using Excel or something of that nature and coming over through a notepad editor (like Notesy) can be very helpful.

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Regarding Ableton and mapping to anything of that nature... it's an empirical thing (i.e., trial and error) and your findings would be most appreciated if you shared them on this thread. The cool thing about Ableton is that if you use Host Automation -- the blue, MIDI-mapping mode -- then it's bidirectional... So you can have Ableton tell you what values you're interested in.

One thing to note: a MIDI Monitor, like Snoize MIDI Monitor or Mac or MIDI-OX on Windows, is of great utility. There's also a LOG function in MIDI Designer.

Answer 2

Hi there and welcome aboard. 

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There is no way to have MIDI Designer add a suffix, you can do all of that via Named Ticks (which you've already noted).

Have you seen loading of named ticks from a file? 

Here's an example, and another example. Using Excel or something of that nature and coming over through a notepad editor (like Notesy) can be very helpful.

---

Regarding Ableton and mapping to anything of that nature... it's an empirical thing (i.e., trial and error) and your findings would be most appreciated if you shared them on this thread. The cool thing about Ableton is that if you use Host Automation -- the blue, MIDI-mapping mode -- then it's bidirectional... So you can have Ableton tell you what values you're interested in.

One thing to note: a MIDI Monitor, like Snoize MIDI Monitor or Mac or MIDI-OX on Windows, is of great utility. There's also a LOG function in MIDI Designer.