Support control changes

[Ninja-Koala]

I've just tested around with using sointu with my MIDI keyboard using carla as plugin host for the sointu vsti.
It works really great, the only thing I miss is control changes support.

My keyboard has a lot of knobs and sliders and if I could map their values to instrument parameters that could be really great for experimenting with the instrument sound.

[vsariola]

So there's the problem that a Sointu patch has semi-random number of different parameters, and VST2 afaik assumes that the number (and names etc.) of the parameters is fixed and known before-hand. Perhaps we could offer e.g. 16 fixed parameters and allow "bind" each parameter to a specific parameter in the patch?

[vsariola]

So, I hacked together a simple concept how this could work. How does this look to you?

2024-09-21.19-41-25.mp4

[Ninja-Koala]

That looks great to me 👍