New "Enable third-party controllers" option in Lightroom CC

[electerious]

There's a new option "Enable third-party controllers" in the settings of Adobe Lightroom CC, which sounds like controller support is finally a part of Lightroom CC, too. It's hard to find any details, but I hope that the API will be similar to the one of Lightroom Classic, which could allow MIDI2LR support for Lightroom CSS.

The only blog I found that mentions this feature is this one: https://www.lightroomqueen.com/whats-new-in-lightroom-2024-12/

[Seb-Kaiser]

Hi, I am also very interested in this new feature, because I'm part of the people who prefer the cloud version, even though I wished for so long it could work with a controller.

Any plans to make midi2lr compatible with Lightroom cloud, now that it is possible?

Thank you so much in advance!

[mvcoile]

As far as I understand it*: This is the same API as Lightroom CC. However, MIDI2LR (and LrControl) use a custom plugin/module to directly control Lightroom instead and are ignoring the API. So MIDI2LR is implicitly not compatible.

[electerious]

Made my own controller for Lightroom. It's not using MIDI, but it still might be a solution for some: https://github.com/electerious/lightroom-controller