Can changing snapshots auto-send host automation values to remote controls in Bitwig?

TechLo
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Messing around with a 3rd party instrument assigning host automation and setting up remote control pages in Bitwig. Currently, when changing snapshots in Kontakt host automation values are not sent to update the remote controls, the remote controls stay where they were prior to changing the snapshot. Saving the snapshot as a full .nki patch does update the remote controls when loading, but ain't nobody got time for that. Possible to update remote controls on snapshot change?

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  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,667 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/44794/can-changing-snapshots-auto-send-host-automation-values-to-remote-controls-in-bitwig

    Hello,

    Kontakt snapshots are primarily designed to save and recall the internal state of an instrument within Kontakt itself. This includes parameters like knob positions, selected articulations, and effects settings within the Kontakt instance. So, natively, changing Kontakt snapshots does not automatically send host automation values to update remote controls in Bitwig Studio.

    While loading an entire Kontakt instrument patch (.nki file) can update mapped remote controls in Bitwig, snapshot changes within an already loaded instrument do not offer the same behavior.

    So, simply said, the answer is no.

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  • Sunborn
    Sunborn NKS User Library Mod Posts: 3,667 mod
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    https://community.native-instruments.com/discussion/44794/can-changing-snapshots-auto-send-host-automation-values-to-remote-controls-in-bitwig

    Hello,

    Kontakt snapshots are primarily designed to save and recall the internal state of an instrument within Kontakt itself. This includes parameters like knob positions, selected articulations, and effects settings within the Kontakt instance. So, natively, changing Kontakt snapshots does not automatically send host automation values to update remote controls in Bitwig Studio.

    While loading an entire Kontakt instrument patch (.nki file) can update mapped remote controls in Bitwig, snapshot changes within an already loaded instrument do not offer the same behavior.

    So, simply said, the answer is no.

  • Kymeia
    Kymeia NKS User Library Mod Posts: 5,707 mod
    edited May 13

    There are 2 kinds of remote controls in Bitwig - device pages and preset pages. Device pages are per device (obviously) so independent of presets, but the preset pages are stored with a preset saved in Bitwig so if you setup a mapping for a snapshot and save it as a preset it will recall that snapshot of including knob positions

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