Ardour commands and Softube Console1

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So I was looking through the Ardour manual for Softube Console and realized there are a lot of commands that are Mixbus specific (gate, eq controls for example). Is the code for these specific Mixbus commands to access these plugins still available within Ardour?

I skipped over the section for Softube cause I did not have one. For the first time, I also noticed the mixer maps for:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>



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COMP_ATTACK

    <param-mapping id="1">
            <name>Release</name>
            <mapping shift="false">COMP_RELEASE</mapping>
    </param-mapping>

    <param-mapping id="2">
            <name>Knee</name>
            <mapping shift="false"></mapping>
    </param-mapping>

    <param-mapping id="3">
            <name>Ratio</name>
            <mapping shift="false">COMP_RATIO</mapping>
    </param-mapping>

    <param-mapping id="4">
            <name>Threshold</name>
            <mapping shift="false">COMP_THRESH</mapping>
    </param-mapping>

    <param-mapping id="5">
            <name>Makeup</name>
            <mapping shift="false">COMP_PAR</mapping>
    </param-mapping>

    <param-mapping id="6">
            <name>Sidechain</name>
            <mapping shift="false"></mapping>
    </param-mapping>

I use Ace Compressor all the time. Is this type of midi map possible to do for any other specific plugins? If so, could we use these midi maps to map plugin parameters and control them with other devices?

Thank you