Consoles... remember?

[SMS]

I Recently found myself wishing for a MIDI plug-in for I reason I now can't recall.. and then I remembered Custom Consoles. What a great feature.

Not sure why, but at some point I guess I needed them less than before, so haven't used them for a while. Used to rely on them heavily- I built one that controlled virtually everything on my VS-880 that really streamlined my workflow back in the late 90's.

I've been working with them a bit again, to control/visualize virtual B3 functions. I had built this one for my (hardware) Viscount Legend, which worked great.

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In trying to update it to work with a VI, found it to be a bit buggy, causing crashes when trying to change assignments for a control, etc. I also discovered that some problems I was having recording and playing back CC data were likely caused by some old consoles I had in my default doc, even though they weren't open in the Project.

All this to say that this is a great feature that seems to have not gotten much attention in recent versions. I really hope it's not orphaned; in fact, it would be great if they could be enhanced to be able to used as a custom MIDI plug-in instead of the way they work now.

[stubbsonic]

I'll confess it's one of those features (like song mode) that I don't use, but am glad it's there.

Though it might be neglected in terms of stability and appearance, it is super powerful and flexible. It's totally 14-bit friendly, too.

Thanks for reminding me.