Regulating the controls of a plug-in automatically
 Freely assign a controller no. in REAKTOR
Practically all user-controls of the NI plug-ins can be regulated from within Logic, thanks to the VST 2.0 interface. This means that faders, knobs, switches and draw-bars can automatically change their settings as the song plays.
Each adjustable parameter in the NI program receives changes through an individual controller-number. In REAKTOR and DYNAMO the controller-numbers 0 to 127 can even be freely allocated to the individual knobs, faders or switches (in the Properties window of the REAKTOR/DYNAMO).

New automation method in Logic 5:
The automation process of plug-in parameters was completely changed in Logic 5 and is now much more convenient: In the arrange window select the track of the plug-in (AudioInst..), choose from the Menu "View" -> Track automation. Click on the instruments name of the track: a list of controllers appear. Select one and draw in the automation. Alternatively you can choose the mode "touch", start playback, and change the desired controller/knob in the NI plug-in. It will be recorded live to the track and graphically displayed.
Exceptions: REAKTOR 3 and Pro-52 don't record these changes, but you are able to draw in the automation directly into the track.
FM7: Please disable in the FM7 preferences the "workaround for Emagic Logic" (this workaround is only needed when using Logic 4.x)
If you're using Logic 5 you can skip the following automation page.

Logic 4.x.
All the controller-numbers can be regulated from Logic, for example, using HyperDraw in the Arrange window and Matrix Editor, or from within the Hyper and Event Editor.

Important advice:
The NI Controller-number tables in the NI Handbooks are valid only for Cubase and not for Logic. This is because Logic allocates the controller-numbers dynamically according to a proprietary scheme:
Logic controller basics (only for Logic 4.x)
The first 63 controller-numbers are used internally by Logic to control the Logic audio faders and pan-pots as well as the parameters of Logic’s own plug-ins. Therefore you should only use controller-numbers above 64 up to 127 for VST Instrument plug-ins. Controller-number 64 is often used for the sustain-pedal of a plug-in instrument and so is not always available. Various of the controller-numbers under 64 may function, if partially, although arbitrarily allocated in connection with VST instruments.
Theoretically then, there are 64 controllers available for automation (Numbers 64-127). However, if in the Environment window, you have an additional effect plug-in open underneath the VST Instrument, then the number of controllers available to the VST Instrument is reduced to only 16. This is because the extra plug-in reserves the additional controllers for its own use. We therefore recommend not to use an effect underneath an instrument, but rather to route the sound of the instrument to a „Bus“, using the „Sends“ of the channel in the Environment window, and to use the effects plug-in in the „Bus“.

Finding the right controller number
When using only one VST instrument and no further effect plug-in for each „AudioInst“ you may use the following lists of NI controller-numbers, which we provide exclusively for our registered users. Please log in with your user name and password which you reveived after registering your product online.

B4 controller numbers

PRO-52 controller numbers

BATTERY controller automation

REAKTOR/ DYNAMO controller allocation
The possibilities for automating control
The controller data can be automated in various windows by diverse means: Using Hyper-Draw in the Arrange and Matrix window (View -›Hyper Draw -› others.. and then the number of the controller) , through the Event List or using the Hyper-Editor. We recommend the Hyper-Editor because of it provides the best overview and permits multiple controllers to be ‚drawn’ at once (in Hyper Draw only one controller may be drawn at a time).

Automation using the Hyper-Editor:
 Hyper Edit: Create controller rows
Choose the MIDI sequence in the „AudioInst“ track inside the Arrange window for which you wish to automate the controls, then open the Hyper-Editor (Windows -› Open Hyper Edit ). Here you can already see a Controller-set, albeit the one that regulates internal Logic functions. The row labelled „Volume“ controls the volume-faders in the Channel-Mixer/Environment of Logic and not the volume-control in the window of an instrument plug-in.

Create a new Hyper Set (Hyper -› Create Hyper Set), then create as many „Event Definitions“ (Hyper -› Create Event Definition) as you need controllers for the instrument (eg. six to control six B4 drawbars). Each new „Event Definition“ creates an individual row for the controller.
 Controller no.
In the Instrument Pararmeter Box on the left-side of the Hyper Edit window you can see the settings for each individual controller row. Next to „Status“, „Control“ (for MIDI controller) must be active. The bottom row („-1-„) is used to set the controller-number (default is 7 for Volume), this is the channel which ‚sends’ to the plug-in. After double clicking on this number type in the controller number, for example, controller number 65 (making sure that the adjacent checkbox is ticked). Do not be confused by the name which Logic displays for each controller row, these names have no effect on the function of the NI plug-in. By clicking on the old name in the instrument parameter box you may give a more appropriate name to the channel ie. Rotor on/off or Filter Cutoff.
 Hyper Edit and REAKTOR 3 plug-in. The cutoff
knob is assigned to no. 65. The filter sweep is
drawn in above in the first row.
Now, you are able to simply draw in, using the pencil tool, the new values of controller 65 for the course of the song, these appear as a row of bars. Whilst drawing Logic shows the controller-number and value in the gray information box at the bottom-edge of the window. If you start the sequencer you can see how the respective switches and controls of the plug-in move, in our example the cutoff.
All other adjustable parameters may be controlled in exactly the same way.

If you wish only to control an on/off button, eg. Vibrato on/off on the B4, then simply draw one value (shown as a small bar) at the appropriate position in the song using the Hyper Editor. Values under 63 mean „off“, over 65 mean „on“ (check exact values by reading the gray information box at the bottom as you draw).
REAKTOR and DYNAMO have multi-position switches as well as on/off buttons, these are also controlled by a single channel. The maximum value that may be sent to a channel is 127, the lowest zero, giving a range of 128. This range is divided up to represent the different states of the switch. To set the lowest position of say a 4-position switch, send any value between 0 and 30, for the second position a value between 33 and 60 and so on.