Control any MIDI enabled hardware: synthesizers, drum machines, samplers, effects. Create custom User Interfaces. Host them as VST or AU plugins in your favorite DAWs.




Cross Platform
Works on Windows (XP and up, both 64 and 32bit binaries are available), MAC OSX (10.5 and up), Linux (any modern distro should run it).

Host in your DAW
Each platform has a VST build of Ctrlr so you can host your panels as normal VST plugins, for the OSX a special AU build is available.

Customize
Each Panel can be customized by the user, the panels are XML files, every panel can be Edited in Ctrlr to suite your specific needs.

Open Source
Need special functionality or want to propose a patch/feature update, know a bit about C++/JUCE framework etc. You can always download the source code and build Ctrlr by yourself.

Extend
With the scripting possibilities inside Ctrlr you can extend you panels in various ways. The LUA scripting language gives you access to all panels elements and hooks to various events.

Also, it's freeware!

http://ctrlr.org/


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Great! I really like the host integration features.
Being available as a DAW plugin *and* offering sysex support is amazing!

Seems like a nice option to finally add support for hardware gear to Live.

It only seems that you can't manage banks or presets of your gear, so there's no total recall, right?

 

Due to a fundamantal lack of hardware synths I wasn't able to test it
Although I found the idea so amazing I had to share it

I believe a way to total recall would be to save what you've done on your hardware and then send a sysex to your synth and store that data in it's internal memory.

On the other hand, using live, you should be able to simply save your settings as a preset by pressing the floppy disk button in the instrument panel.

 

This is amazing indeed. Totally incredible Idea! Total recall for all MIDI outboard. Yaaaay!

It's really tedious to have to record sysex messages one by one. I can't wait to try this!