Setting default engine midi mappings

I’ve found myself wanting to replace my hardware synths with zynthian in more than one way, but i seem to fall into this same issue: I can’t sound design with a external midi controller (Korg nanokontrol 1) if i don’t first create a midi mapping on each snapshot and engine.

This for me is a huge pain and makes the whole process a PITA, so i was thinking if maybe there was any way of making, for example, AMsynth, have some default values every time it’s instantiated as a layer. I try to create a smaller selection of synths that i use in my Zynthian but i would do this with helm, surge and OB-XD if possible.

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I can see that would be frustrating. I hadn’t appreciated the constraint. I suggest you submit a feature request in GitHub explaining the issue and suggesting some ideas for solutions. I could imagine a variety including:

  • Default mapping
  • Loadable templates
  • Inheritance into snapshot of previous configuration
  • Copy from other snapshot
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Okay, done! https://github.com/zynthian/zynthian-issue-tracking/issues/288

I think this can add a lot to the zynthian, let’s see what comes of it

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