BOME midi translator pro is a great piece of software, also their network is much better than Apple native if you need an alternative
You can certainly use Bome to act as a midi translator or filter instead of a hardware unit like CME or iconnectivity,
Before Stage Traxx
I’ve previously designed complex ableton rigs to work from external SSD’s
For example playing a song would
- Point to a Ableton project on the SSD
- A 1ms delay then opens the project
- A 1ms delay then would trigger a keyboard stroke to the space bar to start playback
- IAC driver would stop the track via midi note
- Markers would act as your region loops
- Each track sent to return tracks as a output buss for independent mixing
These were full multitracks, clicks tracks,
Also lots of midi devices
(CME widi masters were a kickstarter at the time)
This is obviously a complex and extreme use case, but just shows there’s always creative ways of using things when the likes of Stage Traxx was not a thing.
Outside of Ableton, as @AnthonyB mentioned
Behringer and Midas worked off of OSC
I also made a Midi Translator Pro project where I would have a drag and drop system to program time based fx
So reverb had 2 parameters
- Pre Delay
- Decay time
The Vocal delay had
- Amount of Ms
- The factor - so it could be changed to be a 1/16 (slap) 1/8 note or 1/4
Rather than have very long OSC strings, this was handled in Bome MTP
for example
Reverb went from
120 BPM
F0 00 20 32 32 2F 66 78 2F 31 2F 70 61 72 2F 30 32 20 35 30 30 20 54 65 78 74 F7
F0 00 20 32 32 2F 66 78 2F 32 2F 70 61 72 2F 30 31 20 33 32 20 54 65 78 74 F7
F0 00 20 32 32 2F 66 78 2F 32 2F 70 61 72 2F 30 32 20 32 2E 30 20 54 65 78 74 F7
To simply 120 BPM [midi: CC15.21@9, CC15.66@10, CC16.51@10]
