Volatile Link

Feature Request:

Volatile link.
FL Studio has this. You have a MIDI controller with a spare knob. You link it up to the ‘Volatile Link’. Now it follows you around. Whatever MIDI control you tweak on your MIDI controller hardware, or click with the mouse, that knob is linked to that parameter.

So you can click on any knob at any time and now your knob controls it and is ready to write the automation.

It’s very cool. plz plz :hugs:

Hi,
Cubase already got that covered wit the AI knob on specific MIDI controllers. Works exactly as you described it for way over a decade now :slight_smile:

..just to add just in case- AI means Advanced Integration in the world of Steinberg

It really is a poor choice of acronym… Did they really come up with a list of potential names/acronyms and that’s what they settled on? Perhaps they plan on implementing AI into it…?

QI (Quick Integration) or something similar, imo would have made more sense.

I think the Steinberg Adv Int predates Art Int by a few years.

Yes, like 30.

I suppose you’re right, ironically, AI told me 2008 when the CC121 was released.

Still though… Time for a name change…?

Maybe Steinberg can sue for breach of copyright?
:zany_face:

It could fund every feature request ever made on the forum.

:partying_face:

The ultimate irony would be for Steinberg to use an AI-only law firm to sue for breach of copyright.

Like this?
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fUnd, not find. The lawsuit (if successful, probably not) could fund.

Now I need to find an AI-optometrist.
A “I” doctor, so to speak.

I’ll get me coat …

Not fond of reading fund as find.
By that Logic AI becomes AU.

:grin:

Just as an aside (yet bizarrely back on topic), an example of how that “AI” functionality of the CC121 can be implemented for other controllers using Cubase’s MIDI Remote is the wonderful fp-wizard script, available here.

Quoting from the manual, “The Mode in which the ‘value under mouse’ function is assigned to the Rotate Knob has now been given a name based on the original CC121 Controller from Steinberg and is now called AI Mode. AI stands for ‘Advanced Integration’.

Basically, you just move the mouse over a virtual knob and then turn the physical knob.

What it doesn’t do, however, is putting midi through. It only is able to control VST elements. I cannot go into the key editor, point to a lane of CC11 and have the hardware knob control that.

I see that now, thank you. Will be using that for sure.