Is there a VST software where you can build your own custom editor/librarian for synths with no patch save function? I mean essentially you’re just sending MIDI cc’s, which any sequencer can do.
There should be a tool where you can drag in visual widgets and assign them to CC’s. Then a big button to send all at once via a given MIDI channel.
I suppose I could do something with CableGuys MIDI shaper and just have flat lines for each LFO if there’s nothing else available. Would be nice to have something more GUI friendly that matches the synth layout
TouchOSC on Mac & iOS can do that with the help of scripting underneeth its embedded Lua Engine. Possible because TouchOSC does also Midi apart from OpenSoundControl. There you would design your Layout and name the controls which you also use for the scripting attached to some “button” (UI elment of your choice). Like a tiny statemachine, you can certainly fire a state with Lua.
Great question! There’s a few situations where this would be useful:
Semi-modular, budget synths, stomp boxes. Moog Matriarch, Behringer TD-3-MO, Behringer Proton, Strymon Timeline. What they don’t accept MIDI CC on, they accept Sysex. (MIDI Designer Pro X supports Sysex).
No OEM-supported librarian available, librarian costs extra, or you’d rather build your own.
When using MIDI to CV converters such as the Doepfer A-190-5.
Synths where menu diving makes patch editing unusable, such as the Yamaha DX7.
Synths that are out of reach due to limited space
Even just simply sending MIDI program changes and start/stop messages on capable synths without having to set up a pattern on a sequencer
It’s only a librarian (+patch/bank change controller) but you can quite easily program adaption for any device that communicates via sysex and can respond and do patch/bank dumps.
No editor there, it’s probably coming sooner or later, but it will be most likely a simple values editor at first (like how reface editors on soundmondo look like).
