What's the most useful way to comment midi-commands?

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What’s the most useful way to comment midi-commands?

Hello everybody.
I´m mapping my VCI400EGE. As the midi mapping grows, I´m unhappy with my comments in the TSI-files.

I would like to make consistent comments in my mapping, so I and everybody else can find every midi-command quickly by sorting the command´s comments.

For example:
Some midi of my commands are just labeled “JogTouch Deck A”.
Some comments are “JogFX L Bank1 DeckC Preset1 JogTurn D/W”.

Do you have a special commenting order?
Like: “DeckA | Play Button (Buttonx) | hold |” OR “PlayButton A| hold|”

I haven’t found the best solution to order my midi-commands yet. So what are your thoughts on this?

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I have thought about this - but the conclusion I came to was that most of the useful information is available outside of the Comments field.

One thing I did do, was to make sure I label consistently. Some times I used DeckA, sometimes Deck A, sometimes (Deck A)… So that had to get fixed.

Luckily, the latest version of CMDR has got a find/replace function that will do this.

I’ll watch this thread with interest…

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This was REALLY easy to implement. My problems are by far in WPF stuff for the GUI.
If you have more ideas like this please mention.

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Please see example page 3 of this TSI.
https://maps.djtechtools.com/mappings/9279

I tend to use comments to alphabetically group all commands necessary to build a single function
in the end of the comment I put the deck, and then the pad number

Then I copy paste these to the other channels, and rename the whole copy to the deck without the pad number
I always do deck B first because the controller is in my left side.

example:
PAD BEATJUMP B - pad1
PAD BEATJUMP B - pad2
PAD BEATJUMP A
PAD BEATJUMP A
PAD BEATJUMP C
PAD BEATJUMP C
…

HOWEVER

In CMDR I’ve now fixed a lot of bugs to the quick-filters
and now have auto-generation of 32x commands

So I believe i will stop doing these comments and just use the filters and regenerate the other channels on the fly
something to test once I finnally stop doing CMDR and go back to mapping the 1000

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What is auto generation of 32x commands?

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Please see the pictures in the middle of this page
https://www.native-instruments.com/forum/threads/release-cmdr-controller-manager-done-right.269818/page-4