Description

brain is a preset manager. It saves and recalls pretty everything in your live set.

First it was a part of my other device cloud, I made this version for non-monome users.

You can access 32 presets in 32 banks, so 1024 presets are available ; the top hemisphere is for the banks, the bottom one for the preset.

It acts as follow :

To save a preset;

- click on the "enable saving" button, store and insert buttons appears to show that bongobrain is ready to store.

- choose the bank and preset index on wich you want the preset to be stored by clicking on corresponding buttons on the grid, if the preset slot is already in use, its name will be displayed.

- type the name of your preset in the text box (it is important to name the preset, it will prevent you from overwriting presets later).

To store the preset, you have to choose between "store" and "insert". "store" will overwrite any pre-existent preset on the index number chosen, if you choose a slot already in use, all its parameters will be lost. "insert" will automatically increment any preset at the specified index or higher to make room for the new one.

brain has some limitations (that could be expanded if I get time) :

- 45 parameters on the two first devices on 24 tracks (if you want to use more than two devices and save their parameters, you must put it in effect racks, the height macros on the two first racks will be saved).

- 8 parameters on the 2 first devices on 12 return tracks (you must rack your effects if they have more than 8 parameters)

- volume, sends, mute, solo, panning on 24 tracks and 12 return tracks

- record arm on 24 tracks

- transport : tempo, time signature, clip trigger quantization, groove amount, and midi recording quantization

- input and output routings on 32 tracks and 12 return tracks (version 1.7)

All the values are stored with the device when you save your live set. You can also save a Live device preset as usual with Live devices.

A bongobrain preset represents more than 2500 parameters values, it can hold 1024 presets, so it is more than 2.560.000 values that may come with the device when it is loaded, so please be patient. However everything seems to be ok, the device may need a few more seconds to acts as expected. But when loaded it should be fast and reliable.

The parameters are saved from their object id, so you might be able to move things without loosing anyything. However, for the same reason, any track or device added after brain is loaded won't have its parameters saved.

_ The program change can help you to control additionnal hardware, synth, controler, or anything that receive program change messages. You can choose a program number or disable this function for each preset, if you don't want to send program change, set it to 0. Choose the midi canal output in your track output parameter in live.

- banks and presets are mappable. Be careful if you use dials or faders on your controler, going from a preset to another is like recalling all the presets between.

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