NotStillEquipped wrote:By the way, I would want (I've searched and not found) to know how many Knobs (Tabs) / Displays are allowed in Hauptwerk.
Hello Francis,
Welcome to the forum.
The maximum number of LCDs that Hauptwerk can theoretically support is almost unlimited (many thousands), but it can address at most 16384 via any given MIDI OUT port. However, I believe that most (maybe all) available LCD panels only support 7-bit LCD panel IDs (instead of the full 14-bit LCD panel IDs that Hauptwerk allows), so in practice the limit would normally be 128 per MIDI OUT port. Also, MIDI is a fairly slow protocol, so it would probably be unwise (due to slow display refresh time) to drive a huge number of LCD panels from any given MIDI OUT port anyway. 32 (or maybe 64) LCD panels per dedicated MIDI OUT port would probably be reasonably acceptable in terms of refresh times (hopefully less than a second, depending on the speed of the LCD panel hardware's internal processing). (Hauptwerk can support hundreds of MIDI OUT ports.)
In summary, it's effectively unlimited, except by the number of MIDI OUT ports you have. There are MIDI interfaces with lots of MIDI OUT ports available from companies such as MOTU and iConnectivity:
http://motu.com/products/midi/128https://www.iconnectivity.com/products/midi/mio10/
Best regards, Martin.
Hauptwerk software designer/developer, Milan Digital Audio.