Are you still looking for the dream controller for the plugins in your DAW? MP MIDI claim they’ve created it.
MP MIDI Ltd, a company who appear to be based in Cyprus, unveiled their MP MIDI Controller earlier this year. Now the MP MIDI are taking pre-orders for their MP MIDI Controller priced at €650 plus €60 shipping.
This what they say about the MP MIDI Controller;
There is a big gap in the way we control software plugins in the DAW (VST2/VST3/AU) and hardware. The creative process degrades when you are forced to do things in series with the mouse.
Designing a sound on a hardware synthesizer is much different than doing the same on a software synthesizer.
The notion of reaching out and grabbing the control is more natural and moving two controls at the same time allows you to try things that are just not possible with the mouse.The hardware controller, controls only the currently open MP plugin in the DAW. This means that midi remote control is transferred automatically to your open MP plugin.
In the DAW, upon opening the window of the any MP Host plugin, remote hardware control becomes exclusive to that MP Host plugin. You only control what you see on screen.
MP midi can be hosted in any major DAW that supports either VST3, AU, AAX and at the same time can host plugins in VST2/VST3/AU format on Mac and VST2/VST3 on PC
The system as one would expect is part hardware, part software.
The MP Host (MPH) is a VST3/AU/AAX plugin itself and it can load up third party VST2/VST3/AU 64 bit plugins. MPH allows to load only one third-party plugin at a time and there are two versions of MPH, Audio Effects and Instruments. Its virtual encoders (32 per page, 4 pages, total 128 virtual encoders) can be mapped to parameters on third-party plugins and on midi controllers.
Audio passes through the MPH unchanged, the MPH does not process any audio and there is zero latency to the audio signal. The MPH is a virtual midi controller within the DAW, acting as an intermediary between the DAW and the hardware MP controller. Midi played notes and DAW tempo are passed to the third party plugin loaded in MPH. If the loaded plugin is introducing latency then MPH passes this latency to the DAW.
Is this something you would use, or do you prefer to use another controller?
Let us know in the comments.