Acs,
I think most modern day users may not have much use for ReaControlMidi. It’s more a thing for guys that have their working environment relying on external hardware. Still a few of us around though and its development is appreciated.
Currently, to control external hardware devices in Reaper, you have to jump back and forth to an external mixer. Not great if you’re in this predicament. The main Reaper mixer is non functional, although some good minds have written plugins to try and fill the gap. Syncing Reaper through virtual cables with something like Sonar to run hardware is a sloppy option, but works okay most of the time.
ReaControlMidi may eventually let us control external devices as a plugin, even if the main mixer does not currently support external hardware volume, pan or patch selection. This is a step forward for us retro dudes, since ReaControl Midi will select patches and you can control CC messages. Downside so far in the latest beta is that any settings you create are still lost as soon as the program is closed. Respect the hard sweat and tears of the developers. There’s beta 5 and keeping my fingers crossed this will be addressed and fixed at some point.
John
Last edited by J Kennedy; 03-20-2009 at 09:08 PM.
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