Comments on: Producely Dialr, new MIDI controller with AI-powered automatic plugin parameter mappings

By: Fontaine

Fontaine — Sun, 03 Aug 2025 11:52:46 +0000

Je l’ai acheté, mais je n’ai jamais réussi à le faire fonctionner ,

By: Andrew Peterson

Andrew Peterson — Sat, 14 Jun 2025 10:12:32 +0000

I am going to go ahead and state the obvious. This is a clone of the mp midi controller. A touch display in the center and knobs around the display.
The mp controller already has intelligent automatic mapping of parameters for both instruments and effects. It does that on the spot, instantly and just works. Load a plugin and it is ready. The parameters are grouped by color. It also has more than 1500 presets for popular plugins made by humans in logical way.
The mp controller is the king of controlling plugins and it does that extremely well. So, it begs the question, did Producely made any market research before making this? Or is it just ok to copy someone else’s designs and work?
It looks the same thing but smaller.
Also the mp works with all DAWs without special configurations. Because of how it’s designed, it can accommodate different solutions, like control surfaces for DAWs. The control surface for Logic is phenomenal, probably the best control surface for Logic atm. I use Logic and it is insane! And free for the mp controller owners. The Nektar CS12 looks also good, but the mp offers more so I went with that.
The other thing is the AI hype and cloud. No, thanks, I’m not comfortable with software potentially collecting information about my DAW usage and plugin preferences. Probably data can be used for marketing purposes too. I use a firewall to block all telemetry and crap being sent out.
Now, automatic mapping is great, but it is so easy to map a plugin you use all the time, it literally takes 30 seconds to map like 30 parameters. You save the preset and use it for the rest of your life. Also, if you really now the plugin you are using, you will map the most frequently used parameters in a way it fits your workflow. So, that’s not a problem at all imho.

By: Wasyl

Wasyl — Fri, 13 Jun 2025 07:57:42 +0000

For the past 2 decades I’ve been watching humanity being unable to design a usable plugin controller. The closest thing to being usable was Nektar Panorama P1 – it was almost there, but still with some flaws.
I’ve seen dozens of similar projects raising and falling. This one has pots instead of encoders (no, thank you) and yes – placed so close to each other that my fingers probably just won’t fit without accidentally moving neighbour pots.
Amazing: the potential market for a good plugin controller is enormous, yet no one cares to do it right.

By: Chris

Chris — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 19:39:58 +0000

Those knobs are so close together it looks unusable. Did AI do the hardware design too?

By: Underwaterbob

Underwaterbob — Thu, 12 Jun 2025 05:28:13 +0000

Is this “AI” system any different than just having a bunch of loadable VST profiles? Seems a bit silly. There are easily accessible lists of common MIDI CC mappings online that hardly require an AI to reference. If a VST doesn’t adhere to those standards, there’s no way for this AI to figure it out, either. Unless it’s already just programmed with those mappings.

By: Brian

Brian — Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:04:21 +0000

Man, I just purchased Melbourne Instruments ROTO-CONTROL a few days ago, and now this is announced.
Looks nice, but pricier than ROTO (and not motorized), so I may stick with what I have.