Dimension Pro: (4 slot multi), has all possible parameters for the 4 slots always available… (Aria can have new parameter names per patch/instrument, like "blue" or "weird sync" or whatever)

EW Play from what we are able to gather, only allows to automate the first instrument slot, and from what we can understand, only a few parameters are available.

K3 mixes all instrument into the flat parameter list in a weird way while reusing the same parameter ID for totally different targets in different loaded instruments.
EG: parameter 02 will change the attack in an instrument, and a cutoff in another at the same time.. of course you can manually build your list of parameter mapping, but it need to be _manually_ changed as soon as the list of loaded instrument is modified.

We are still looking around at how best to implement this, but its not a trivial design

We are tempted in going the "send all params to all slots" and have users just dont mix and match multitimbrality (different MIDI channels in slots) and parameters.

But we love to keep the 8 independent channels and all CCs always available for pro solutions such as Sonar/Renoise which work pretty fine with it.

@Powers Great Q. I hardly use Automap because (1) Ableton Live's MIDI Learn fulfills most of my mapping needs and (2) I don't like how each plugin that's "wrapped" gets a duplicate entry.

But I was curious and wrapped Chipsounds. Unfortunately, unlike most other soft synths, it wasn't automatically recognized, likely because of what David said. However, I must note some multitimbral plugins like East West Play *are* recognized and show English names for each control (as opposed to just "CC# 27").

Automap integrates well with Live's native instruments & effects, but outside of that, I've not known it to be truely automatic.

A. Powers