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I recently acquired an Alesis Photon X25 controller keyboard with the intent to set it up to make editing my "Hawked-up" EX-800 a less headache-inducing experience, only to discover that I paid far less attention than I should have to the section concerning MIDI CC behavior in the Hawk-800 user's manual...
Having said that though, I am left wondering if there isn't an easier way to setup a controller than the three methods outlined in the manual, all of which seem rather convoluted and anything but straightforward to me, if I may be so bold. Why is it not possible to simply assign one MIDI CC to a knob or switch or slider and just have it work, as opposed to what's detailed in the manual? Are there some tricky coding or CPU issues that I'm simply not aware of?
Ideally, I'd like to have instant control over cutoff, resonance, EG segments, a handful of DCO parameters, and so on. Of course having one knob per function would be perfect, but as far as I know there isn't a capable controller, and even if there was, would it even be possible to setup as outlined in the manual?
Any ideas or advice or anecdotes about how any of you have successfully setup a controller would be appreciated.