So closing all open plug in windows is available and runs fine
BUT
is not exposed as a target for eg midi control surface /generic remote
To seamlessly manage a strip of plugins as a channel strip and maintain the good traits of a console, this should be intrinsic. In fact to extend this to a really great solution, the snapshot of the plugin GUI in a single wrapper window would be even better, with a single button to manage it.
ie if a wrapper window has been saved, then use that instead of floating windows. This way the repetitive use of modules becomes all the much easier and faster as the user becomes familiar ie just like a normal console
My issue is, I cannot find the “open all plug in GUI on selected track” (or equivalent in composite commands) in the commands. eg Alt clicking opens all plugins on a track to their last save position…brilliant and a nice way to create a pseudo channel strip when you DONT use the onboard channel strip.
So how can this be accomplished?
Even using a generic remote does not expose this very important command
Additionally how can you make a macro toggle a state? ie open close
Thanks for the reply
Not sure how that would work. I have all the plugins arrange on a 3rd screen in channel strip style some only have 1 or 2 but some might have 6 or more…for each channel…if show all was on, I dont think there is any way to order them?
Since this feature actually exists in Cubase (alt shift e ?), I think this a good case for the missing key command thread, I hope the guys at steinberg are taking a look now and then.
You can add it, and hopefully it will get added in the future.
The closest I’ve got is using Touch Portal along with Bome MIDI translator.
Touch portal page is 16x3 buttons for each insert - Bypass, On, Edit.
Each button when pressed sends a keypress (e.g. Ctrl Alt Shift F2), that Bome turns into a midi message, which is then received by the Generic Remote in Cubase that executes the relative actions. (Bypass, Activate/Deactivate, Edit).
Not pretty, not fluid, eats up lots of assignable keystrokes. I’m waiting for an official implementation of “Open/Close All” by keycommand.
hehe
Spent days programming Bome with Steve…in the end I got it done in Python direct into the remote script for Live but Cubase is a closed shop it would seem
Would be cheaper to just buy bx amek 9099 and do away with 80% of my other plugins
IF I use Edit/Channel settings as a keyboard shortcut, it opens all plugin windows…YAY!!!
BUT
Right click on a selected channel and it opens only the native strip/settings window and not the plugs?
BUT
Alt Shift opens all???
BUT ONLY if the mixer window is selected
Yeah sorry i dont use touch screens anymore. Using a tartarus 2 and once you have muscle memory it makes using touch feel very fatiguing…wasnt easy setting up but no comparison and removes more of the visual aspect for binary type functions ie like playing guitar with eyes closed
Thanks for your reply
Bringing up an old topic with a new solution. If you’re using a MCU surface, like the SSL UF1 there is an easy way to create soft keys to Open and Close all Plugins on a selected track. This works in Windows and can probably get set up for Mac similarly.
Here’s what you do;
In SSL 360, or other MCU customization software, create two soft keys, one that executes “alt+shift” and the other with “alt+ctrl”.
Assign another soft keys with “Edit Channel Settings”. Place the three keys in such a way that two can be pressed simultaneously. On the UF1 I put as as three consecutive soft keys on one page.
With that, a simple hold of one of the first two keys and the “Edit Channel Settings” key will either open or close all of the plugins on the selected track.