Issues with automation in Ableton

[DembeRed]

Hello everyone,,
I checked the manual and didn't find this in there. I'm trying to simply select an ST3 parameter (filter frequency) in an Ableton (v9) track for drawing in arrange mode automation. There was no obvious way to select this.

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I then clicked the Ableton GUI shell/container for ST3 and clicked "configure" which normally allows me to click a knob/slider in a plugin and it will populate to the Ableton GUI with the parameter allowing for automation. This did not work either.

Does this mean that ST3 does not allow automation in a DAW unless I Learn/map a GUI parameter to a physical midi controller?

[garfy]

Hi DembeRed

SampleTank itself does not report automation parameters to host software, but you can use MIDI CC numbers instead and without having to use a physical controller.

I don't know what you need to do it in Ableton, but in Logic you choose what MIDI CC number to use within the MIDI region and create an automation lane for it, then click LEARN (bottom left of the ST3 interface), move the control on the GUI and then grab and move the CC lane in the region for the connection to be made (it takes longer to type this than it takes to do it!)

Have a look at page 62 and 63 (Chapter 6 - MIDI Control) in the manual.

Hope that helps.