Change track in Grooves window by MIDI?

[Vindes]

I see how to use Learn to bind a midi event to starting and stopping whatever song is on the currently selected Track in the Grooves window.

Is there a way to select different tracks by midi?  Or to start/stop different tracks by midi?

Ideally I’d like to be able to something like CC10 127 starts track one, CC10 0 stops it; CC11 127 starts track 2, CC11 0 stops it; etc.

SD3; Reaper; Roland TD25; Win10

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[John]

Hi,

 

selecting/changing the Groove in the Grooves window via MIDI is not currently possible. Neither is selecting a Track but I can see that it would come in handy for Live use.

BR,

John

John Rammelt - Toontrack
Technical Advisor

[Henrik Ekblom]

This would probably be easiest done in a DAW, such as Ableton Live, which would control SD3 so that you can start and stop at different points in the time line.

Henrik Ekblom - User Experience Designer
Toontrack

[Vindes]

Thanks.  Just wanted to make sure I wasn’t missing something.

 

Yes, Henrik, I have been doing it through a DAW.  It’s just a bit cumbersome for one particular use case, which is sitting around and jamming while SD3 is looping a drum track.  If we come up with an idea we like and say “hey, let’s try that over a swing rhythm” or “try a less busy drum track” it’s nice to just punch a button and have a dozen different tracks at your fingertips.

 

It’s very doable in a DAW, it’s just cumbersome.  I’ve come to prefer using something like Mainstage or GigPerformer over a full DAW for this kind of thing, and for a moment I thought “hey, these tracks in the Groove window would be awesome for this.”  They still are, but obviously requires me to open the plugin and click around rather than tap a button on a controller.

I’ve considered using EZ Player Pro for it (feeding SD3 of course), which can take MIDI assignments to start/stop individual tracks.  That’s almost ideal, but the fact that it only takes NOTE ON events as triggers to toggle start/stop means the state sometimes gets de-sync’d from what a control surface thinks is happening.  (e.g., EZ Player is playing but the surface thinks it’s not, so the toggle states are out of phase.  Preferable to have CC’s use 0 for off, 127 for on.)

 

Thanks for the replies though.  Consider it a “nice to have” request.

SD3; Reaper; Roland TD25; Win10

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