Calling racks by sending prg chg?

[terrybritton]

Most of my plugins have ten-bazillion presets, so I use the states to affect which preset appears in a rack set to that state.

This is easy in plugins that expose their presets to the drop-down list, but others require you assign names to the slots in the drop-down to make this work. See this post for a good explanation on how to do that.

VST Presets don't appear in Presets List

So, I figured out how to do this. First, terminology. I’m naming this stuff 'cause I couldn’t find it in the user guides. Doesn’t mean it’s not there, I just couldn’t find it. VST Wrapper - called this because it’s different in every host (I’ve tried so far). This is the header and footer that the Plugin Editor’s UI is wrapped in. Preset List Dropdown - In the header, preset names with Program Change Numbers. Options Menu - the triple stripe thingy at the far right of the header. Procedure …

Also, this blog post shows the Program Change Remapping feature that might be handy for you if you have a pedal that increments by one as I do (using CC#12 and the program advance feature found in C3’s options).

Program Map MIDI Filter

@Neil_Durant also mentioned using “Load state by Program” in this post, which is a bindings trick, but I cannot find any other information on it at the moment:

First load/play of a session

As an aside, don’t forget that you can create a binding from Program Change to Song States “Load State by Program”, which uses the incoming program change, so you don’t need to have one binding for each state - you can just use one binding. Although perhaps you have a particular need to have each one listed separately. Neil

Terry