Originally Posted By: Rustyspoon#
... What would be nice if there was a simple mechanism to do Key Switches as they seem to dominate workflows of VSTis. ...


A few DAWs such as Cakewalk by Bandlab and Cubase offer Articulation lanes or tracks where the VSTi keyswitch midi data is separate from the midi note data.

The DAW understands the difference between a VSTi midi note and VSTi articulation note by reading an Articulation map.

The problem is every VSTi using articulations requires an articulation map to properly work in a DAW that can follow an Articulation map. The good news is since Cubase seems to have originally come up with the Articulation map idea Cakewalk is following Cubase's lead. Between the two DAWs a fair number of VSTi Articulation maps are available. +++ HERE +++ is a link to Articulation maps in the Cakewalk forum. If there is not a map for your favorite VSTi they are pretty easy to create.


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