I am comparing VST Live to Gig Performer and Apple’s venerable Mainstage, both of which are, like VST Live, it would seem, mostly geared towards keyboard players (or drummers) who manage their live show performance scenes, and backing tracks.
I am a guitarist and I would like to automate a one person show within an environment like GP or VSTLIVE.
Can VST Live be drive by external midi gear, such as a midi footswitch that is used to launch scenes within a song, or launch songs, or begin a fade out, etc?
Yes, have a look to the "Actions und Shortcuts… " feature (manual, page 144). You can drive Previous/Next Song/Part/Layer and many more areas of VST Live. But no fade in or fade out.
No. Sorry. But if you like could you please explain what you would like to script? We are listening …
i would like to script actions to occur when midi CC data is incoming.
Def OnMidiCC(channel,cc,data):
If cc=100:
ActivatePreset(data)
I can do scripting in javascript in bitwig which I use to turn bitwig into a footswitch controlled guitar processor. I activate different signal chains each of which has several guitar amp and effect plugins in it. I have a volume/expression pedal which can have a different function in each preset. In preset 1 it may control amp gain. In preset 2 it may control a wah or filter cutoff. In preset 3 it may control a reverb fade time or delay mix.
In each preset I have four footswitches which turn in and off individual effects in my chain (delay, distortion, modulation/chorus).
I can also do similar things in reaper (in its own scripting language or with lua), gig performer, and ableton live (in python).