Hi. Naive user here. I’m trying to set up Audio Damage Enso looper with Cantabile. I have a MIDI pedal set up to ‘Trigger’ the recording (via a MIDI Expression unit), which works fine but every time I try to record it tells me I need to press play on my DAW. What’s this about and how do I set this up so the first ‘Trigger’ starts the loop, the second stops it, and the third plays it?
I’ve attached a screen shot of my routing which I’m guessing isn’t correct (everything works here except Enso).
I haven’t used Enso for a while but have a few projects where I use it in Cantabile. Enso relies on the transport (in any DAW I believe) in order for the triggers to work as its based on next beat/bar/measure based on the Enso settings. From manual;
"Important: your host DAW’s transport must be running to make Enso operate. Enso depends upon its host for timing information and will just
sit there doing nothing if its host is stopped."
I think there may be a way to set it to free mode (but this is just so it records until you tell it to stop (rather than wait for a number of measures) but it still relies on transport to be running. In terms of the trigger (I’m doing this from memory) the Trigger button can be set so that the first press starts recording (at the next measure) and will usually loop for the configured measures/time (so no stop per se) and auto-play the loop recorded. The mode the Trigger changes to after the loop is playing can either be overdub or just left playing. There are MIDI CCs which are in the bottom panel (MIDI Control) where you can also set Start/Stop/Reset (and combinations) too…
Your routing looks fine but not sure what MIDI CCs you are sending from your pedal (or what Enso is receiving). So its probably just a case of making sure a) transport in Cantabile is playing and your pedal(s) CC(s) are set to match those set in Enso for the functions you want… Not sure if that helps in anyway but if you need to see what MIDI CC is being sent from your pedal (and what Enso is receiving) you can right click on the “MIDI Expression” and select “MIDI Monitor” so you can see what CCs are sent (or alternatively do the same with Enso to see MIDI CC received).
NOTE: The way you have the audio routed means ALL audio goes through Enso which means in order to hear any audio at all (particularly when Enso is not looping/playing) make sure you have “Input Monitor” set to “ALWAYS” otherwise you just won’t hear any audio
NOTE (2): MIDI Control has a kind of MIDI Learn feature so you can click on the MIDI Message button then click whatever pedal you want to press and then define what Enso button this will trigger etc so this will also tell you what MIDI CC (or note) your pedal is sending and hopefully get doing what you want…
