Question

I can map an external non-Presonus MIDI-controller in focus mode to adress e.g. a parameter of the PRO-EQ in Studio One. This means if I have this plugin assigned to multiple channels the same knob on the external controller will e.g. always control the low-frequency-parameter in the plugin on the different channels, but only for exactly the channel plugin which has been currently opened and could also be controlled by the mouse. The parameter will only change in this plugin instance when using the external controller and the same parameters on the other channels will remain as they are.

Fine so far.

But if I set a parameter of a plugin e.g. to 50% on one channel and open the plugin on another channel where the value was 25% so far this parameter immediately also jumps to 50% when I start to move the encoder.

Instead the encoder should pick up the existing parameter value on this channel and start to move from there. With the current behaviour using an external MIDI controller for plugin parameters might look positive first. But in reality it might destroy an existing mix.

Faders on ATOM and ATOM SQ as well as the StudioOne remote controll app can pick up existing parameter values even on channel changes. Unfortunately sometimes they don't have enough encoders for some plugins. For this external controllers look useful.

Is there a hidden setting how I can send parameter values from StudioOne to external controllers to continue work at the actual synchronized encoder position when changing channels?

Answer 1

There is something additional I noticed today (got my Atom SQ back from service after some time).

I found that Atom SQ has eight banks of configurable knobs in user mode (adds to 64 configurable encoders) which are able to pick up the current values of parameters and proceed from the current value of a plugin parameter.

But I have some additional controllers, e.g., a Midifighter Twister which can display the current value as LED ring around the encoder. And this doesn't work in StudioOne. When I switch to the focus view of a different plugin the Twister doesn't recognize the current value of a parameter in the plugin but sends its current value to the plugin.(where the Atom would work correctly)..

There are some videos which show how easy it is to add external controllers to studio one. But these simply added controllers behave in a problematic way.

Can this be changed so that assigned external controllers are able to call the current status from the software and then do a relative movement?