- Which MIDI controllers can I use with Mulligan 2?
Short answer: All of them!
Long answer: While Mulligan 2 offers universal MIDI compatibility, some hardware controllers will match Mulligan 2 better than others.
For plugin control, a controller should have both encoders and buttons. (This is different than in Mulligan 1, where plugin control only used knobs.) Some plugin parameters are only mappable to encoders, others only to buttons, and some are mappable to both types of control.
Controllers with encoders (aka rotary encoders or endless encoders) offer a better plugin control experience than those with pots (which have a hard stop point at each end of their rotation). Encoders have the ability to send relative knob data, whereas pots can only send absolute knob data. Mulligan 2 can work with pots for plugin control, but has to perform an internal translation from absolute to relative knob data, and that can be a little awkward in practice.
One caveat: many controllers with encoders still send Absolute data by default (they track the value of each knob internally, a trick that we call "fake absolute" knobs), and you must use the editor supplied by the manufacturer to change their encoders to send Relative data instead.
The only command that cannot be mapped to an encoder is the Current Track Fader command. That must be mapped to a fader or a pot.
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