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@jon

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I tend to have a lot of CV / Midi companion plugins for each plugin. I have even given up on adding the couple control to CV + Mindi to output the knobs values to external midi device when they are changed in the web ui… I am hoping one day it will be a default behaviour … any chance of that happening soon btw ?

Soon, I believe that no. This is quite hard because the way that each MIDI controller receives MIDI tends to be different. When they receive MIDI at all and don’t only send it.

I’ve only used 3 midi controllers from 3 different constructors (Blackstar, Keith McMillen Sofstep and Morningstar Engineering), and they all (for the Softstep I didn’t use much long, not sure…) behave the same way to showing something happening in the dwarf : I have to send a message from the dwarf to the controller.
For example

• if a CC#32 engages/disengages the delay
• if I send a CC#32 with value 0 or 127 from the Dwarf to the controller
• then the controller changes the state of the button that sends CC#32 and change the LED state.

I suppose that the cheap controllers don’t do that, but from what I’ve seen, even if it is not a standard, it seams the way constructors have handled bi-directional midi.
That was the purpose of this tread and this one too where @AndyCap propose a solution in the Dwarf’s code.