The feature I request today is… MIDI mapping!
Wouldn’t it be great if anything in Pro Tools could be mapped to MIDI with the click of a button or two? Ableton Live can do this (which by the way can also assign pretty much anything to keyboard keys as well) and it’s a feature I always end up using when I’m working in Live. Would be nice to see it in Pro Tools. Mixing and producing could be much more intuitive.
Yep!
By StrangeRover ~ January 30, 2010 kl 6:03 pm
Resounding yes. The mapping in Ableton Live is a joy.
By Ant ~ January 30, 2010 kl 9:16 pm
Agreed.
By ScrewMaker ~ January 30, 2010 kl 11:16 pm
I’d love to see that happen! But Digi has always been about proprietary hardware, e.g. cards, interfaces and control surfaces with the latter being very lucrative for them.
I vaguely remember the Peavey PC-1600 JL Cooper CS-10 working until 6.4 or something like that.
By phase90 ~ January 31, 2010 kl 3:19 am
stiff, do you know something we don’t?
phase90 makes a good point…
avid/digidesign are in the business of selling hardware. they have consistently drip fed it’s loyal users (me, included, since sound designer days) with mini updates and occasional additional features.
midi learn, and the like, have been original features of the majority of pro tools’s rivals for many, many years but it has not been fully implemented in pro tools- will it ever?
don’t get me wrong, i really like pro tools, i use it every week, but since ableton improved it’s sound engine (still needs a lot of work to sound as good as pro tools) it is now more often my starting DAW. ideally, pro tools should be re-written (and has been to some extent with ardour) as the a lot of the code holds it back.
if it is implemented, it would make pro tools almost complete. it’s extremely important. perhaps this is the decade we’ll get it??
By cheakypawl ~ January 31, 2010 kl 10:01 am
You can add your request or opinion here:
http://protools.ideascale.com/a/ideafactory.do?mode=recent&pageOffset=0
maybe Digidesin will listens us finally!!!! Who knows?
By RRStudio ~ January 31, 2010 kl 1:46 pm
+1
Midi note mapping and controller mapping:
I use many different percussion midi triggers (Kat pads, MPC pads, Yamaha triggers, and regular keyboards.) All of these have different, random output notes for each pad. I also use many different drum samples and machines, each with different samples assigned to each note. In Logic, dealing with this is no problem.
What is needed in PT is NOT more and more fancy groove quantization and all of that, but basic features like midi note and controller mapping functionality. I need the ability to change G#3 to A2 and F1 to C4 etc. on the fly in real time (individual note transposing) and save those settings as a preset for any midi trigger to sample player combination. I can’t reprogram the triggers and rewrite the sample keyboard maps for every permutation.
What is midi mapping? Any input note may be routed to a different output note and assigned its own velocity setting, and name. Note mapping is infinitely helpful for drum programming. With note mapping:
Each individual input note can be:
• named (snare, hi hat and so on);
• mapped to a different output note (F# and G# for the same hi-hat sound, allowing you to play rapid repeats or transposed for another trigger/sampler combo);
• given a velocity offset;
• assigned its own MIDI channel
With related controller mapping you could quickly and easily reprogram midi controller data from one parameter to another. You could be using your mod wheel as a pitch adjuster then with a flip of a menu, have that wheel be controlling a filter. It’s in the same vein as note mapping, just reassigning midi data in real time.
Note mapping is indispensable for anyone who does much percussion programming.
By scott ~ January 31, 2010 kl 4:03 pm
http://protools.ideascale.com/a/dtd/14377-3779
go here to vote this up
By scott ~ January 31, 2010 kl 4:04 pm
chaekypawl,
>> “do you know something we don’t?”
About this? I wish I did…
By stiff ~ February 1, 2010 kl 5:24 am
scott, great comment.
By stiff ~ February 1, 2010 kl 5:25 am
The funny thing is back when ProTools was like v5 or maybe v4 it DID have MIDI mapping – you could control click on any virtual knob or fader, it would turn green, you move a MIDI controller & it was mapped! There’s only one reason this feature was removed – to ‘encourage’ you to buy Digidesign hardware…
By tim prebble ~ February 1, 2010 kl 4:06 pm