Remora

SuperRack sits beside the desk running the plug-ins, and it has no idea which channel the engineer is working on. So every time they move to a new channel, somebody reaches over and finds the right rack by hand. Remora watches the desk instead, and when a channel is selected it puts SuperRack on that channel's rack.

It finds the rack by name: a channel called head1 gets the rack called head 1, and lec 1 and lec 2 both get the one called Lec. Anything the names don't sort out can be set by hand on the Channels tab. It reads the desk and never changes it: everything it sends a console is a read request, and the code refuses to send anything else.

SuperRack's MIDI can only step one rack at a time and never says where it is, which isn't much to work with. With Accessibility, Remora reads the rack's name off SuperRack's own window and steps straight there, 2 ms a step, and checks it landed. Without it, it counts.

On the CL and QL it follows SEL. Yamaha doesn't document a selected channel on the DM series, so on a DM7 or DM3 it follows cue, with the desk's [CUE] > [SEL] Link on, and a RIVAGE PM follows cue A or B. The Qu follows PAFL with Sel follows PAFL. On an X32, M32 or Wing it reads the selected channel over OSC. dLive, Avantis and SQ can't say which channel is selected, so there a soft key per rack does the job instead. Everything but the QL is experimental for now.

SuperRack can also be driven over ProLink, as a LAWO mc² console does: Remora plays the console, SuperRack dials in and lists its racks, and there's no MIDI mapping to keep in step. It has run against SuperRack Performer, though not yet on a show. The desk can drive other plug-in hosts the same way: REAPER, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, MainStage, LiveProfessor, Gig Performer, VSTHost, Cantabile and VST Live, all experimental.