Can the Minilab 3 knobs control the smart controls in Logic?
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I would love to have the Logic smart controls automatically assigned by the Lua script. And not only for the Minilab but for the other controllers like Keylab, too. The current assignment to the first parameters of an instrument often makes no sense.
Best regards,
Stephan
Smart Controls for me is a plugin that never worked looking to fill a job that wasn’t asked for.
They sometimes work just as long as you are using the built in plugin instruments inside of Logic but fail miserably for me when I try and use them with thirdparty plugins.
From an implementation side, the issue can be that the plugins change depending on the track selected. I gather that maybe there is an underlying access to allow associating a plug position number with a hardware id of the controller. But personally I would rather deal directly with each of the plugins to better control each of the perimeters as a generalization knob I find usually gives me a generalized result and not the control to perfection that I would like.
The trick to Smart Controls is you have to get in and set them up manually as auto assignment is a real joke.
I believe, though, that after setting up the control assignments you’d be able to save it all as a “patch” and, in theory, it should all recall correctly. Which means you should be able to set up a basic template for yourself where the controls are already assigned.
However, I never dove in deeply enough to see if this were 100% reliable. I’d be interested in hearing about other people’s experiences though.
on a similar but totally unrelated topic
TIL why I couldn’t get my minilab3 to work with my Mini_V in a manner that made sense like it does in Analog Lab.
the dials that looks like they control cutoff and emphasis filter on the actual instrument are really controlling the small imaginary macro dials for brightness and timbre on the bottom of the screen that is hidden by my doc. and you don’t get the full sweep that you’d expect because the macro itself it set to only use 2/3 of the dial sweep so it I guess can get more accurate or finer control.
mention this as like smart controls in Logic might appear not to function as expected it might be connected to a macro that in turn controls a dial.