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Did you try setting the Mixer to All View?

Yes! I did Eric; thank you for that suggestion. I also got results when setting the Mixer to "track" view.
As in all workarounds, I can get Smart Controls to stick inside a Track Stack in limited cases using a workaround, including yours, but not consistently.
I *think* that an External Controller assigned to a Smart Control "Selected Track" Parameter should be persistent even when that track is in a Track Stack. While various workarounds may work in specific cases, the workaround functioning does not "fix" the bug.
What I am hoping is that the Logic dev team will address the issue.

Ok. Just wanted to check so that you didn't not miss it.

Question...? My smart controls only display the graphic for EQ and the Controls button only displays a white blank screen on all channels, audio and midi. Using the ESX24 Steinway (a preset) confirms all the above. Logic 10.2.0, OS X 10.10.5 Yosemite, MacMini i7. Any information would be appreciated. Tried to sum a stack etc. : (
thanks, Mak

The two workarounds are hit and miss and unfortunately are unfeasible for gaining control of Smart Controls already in a Track Stack.

The devs really, REALLY need to sort this one.

Still not fixed 10.2.3

ninox_rufa : well said. Hit and miss and equally as infuriating. This really needs to be fixed. 

Perhaps some additional voices here may help (as suggested by 1offby)?

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7158403

Apologies for the double post, but in desperation, I found that Logic Remote presents a temporary workaround. Assuming Logic Remote is already paired to Logic X...

1. Assign smart controls to a plugin on a track
2. Add that track to a stack track - summing or folder stack - both work
3. Select that track in Logic X
4. Logic Remote shows the 'smart' controls (with Smart Controls View selected)
5. Twiddle knobs on Logic Remote, knobs twiddle on Logic X

Logic now works as normal expected. So far, this works for any instrument or effect mapped to smart controls on any track selected, whether its in a stack or not.

I'm looking at five hardware midi controllers in bewilderment at Logics bug, but strictly short term, this is just about better than nothing IMHO.

Except that not all Factory Layouts are supported by Logic Remote. And its still not possible to implement custom Layouts (as opposed to customise factory layouts... really? Really?). Or define toggle or momentary button presses (all of them are toggle based AFAIK), yet somehow, MainStage can differentiate?. 

Smart Controls and its abuse of MIDI redefines what button depression is.

On a higher level the issue might be that controller assignments don't work with track stacks at all. I filed a bug report here.

This thread started 3 years ago and this problem is still not solved. Why am I not surprised?

I guess having empty dummy track objects as separators instead of folder tracks to organize a template is the way to go at the moment, yes, not the same thing. 

Oh Apple, Guns and Roses for you "I use to love her... but I had to kill her..."

Peace.

GD

I'm having trouble using an external controller (Oxygen 88) with smart controls. Logic appears to learn the assignment, but nothing happens when I push the fader on the Oxygen 88. However, I set up a new user account with nothing else running and it works just fine in this account, but I would really like to get it working on my regular account. So, there appears to be some kind of conflict - but how would I go about resolving it?

Edit:
I'm not sure what I did, but it seems to be working now - though as others have pointed out, not inside a stack. 

Trying Eric's fix for this but having problems getting it to work - ive gone into the Mixer and changed the view to All but still having issue - is there something I'm missing?

Thanks, 

Steve

I don't think that this workaround has worked in 2 years.
There has been various changes to the Controller Assignments since then.

Really hope this gets fixed for next update. a no brainier right? Any workarounds in the meantime? other than using an ipad / Logic remote....?

Smart Control external assignments in track stacks still not working in 10.4. I put in a bug report to Apple. Even if it still worked, not sure that I would use the workaround in the Controller Asssingment settings of choosing "software instrument" and it's #, instead of "selected track". I WANT to use "selected track". That's the way I have my template setup, with my 8 external control knobs mapped to 1-8 in smart controls for any and every track.

The issue persists in 10.5...

bgavina wrote:

The issue persists in 10.5...

can confirm.

The more i try to get away from working in the box, the more i find i cannot for some silly reason.

Thankfully the Smart Controls in Logic Control on iPad still work on instruments inside tracks stacks. That's probably the best (and maybe only) workaround for now.

Yep, confirming it's still an issue 6+ years later in 10.5 - come on Apple.

Still here! I hope they solve this for 10.5.2