Controlling Logic Audio Plug-Ins in Real Time.

Let's assume that you're familiar with assigning an audio plug-in to an audio track. All logic audio plug-in's respond to standard MIDI continuous controllers (CC's) starting at CC-64. CC-64 is always assigned to the first parameter of the first assigned plug-in, CC-65 to the second parameter and so on. It doesn't matter whether you've assigned the North Pole Filter as your first plug-in or the Jazzy M Flanging Reverb it's leading parameter will always respond to CC 64. What we are going to show below is how to set up a simple transformation object so that the incoming MIDI CC's from the Phat.Boy(CC's 1-13 in this case) are transformed to CC's 64, 65, 66 etc.

Below is a simple example of how the Phat.Boy can be used to control any of your Logic Audio Plug-ins.

Set the Phat.Boy to Mode III. In this mode the Phat.Boy transmits standard CC's from its knobs. Knob 1 transmits CC 1, knob 2 transmits CC 2, knob 3 transmits CC 3 etc up to knob 13 which, rather obviously, transmits CC 13.

Knob 1

Each knob is physically numbered on the Phat.Boy's front panel.

Open a new arrange window and double click on the first audio track to open

Audio

the mixing environment.

Audio 2

From here click the Audio button to the left of the channel strips and from the menu that appears select Click & Ports

Clicks n' Ports

This will open the environment window. Now select the New sub-menu from the left hand side of the page and drop down to open a transformer object.

Transformer

Double click on the transformer object

Object

to open the (Transformer) menu.

Open the top left hand Status box and select = then assign this to control.

Conditions

In the Operations section open the third Thru box and select Use Map

Transformer: Using a Map

 

Initialise

this will open the mapping window. Start by clicking on the Init button to make sure the map is reset. Double click on the left hand box and type 1 (CC-1=Phat.Boy Knob 1). Now double click on the right hand box and type 64 (CC-64).

Map1Map2

Again double click on the left hand box and type in 2 (CC-2=Phat.Boy Knob 2) Now double click on the right hand box and type 65 (CC-65). Follow this sequence to map all of the incoming Phat.Boy data.

Map3

Don't reassign CC's 7 or 10 (Phat.Boy knobs 7 and 10) as these can be used to control volume and pan of the selected audio track.

Having completed the mapping process close the (Transformer) box. We now need to drag the Pre Process View's output to the input of the transformer and

Transforming 1 to 64

the output of the transformer to the Input Process

If you now turn knob 1 on the Phat.Boy you will notice that the Pre Process View shows the incoming MIDI CC, 1, and the Post Process View shows its transformation into CC 64 .

Turning knob 2 on the Phat.Boy will show the value 2 in the Pre Process View window and

Transforming 2 to 65

CC 65 in the Post Process View and so on through the transformed incoming CC's.

Now when you assign an audio plug-in you'll have real time control of it's parameters via the Phat.Boy. Tweak and have fun.

The above example is just one of the ways that the Phat.Boy can be used to control aspects of your equipment that at first may seem very difficult to fathom. The scope for real time control using the Phat.Boy is enormous, be prepared to experiment as the results can be quite stunning.

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