If your potentiometers are not connected to the Axoloti itself, adding a capactor is probably the way to go.
What you can try is to add the MIDI CC to a ctrl/dial p object, run that one through a math/smooth object and then to the inlet of the parameter you want to control. Normally you would add the MIDI CC to the dial on the object itself.




I also tried with 10pF and 432nF but the result is the same 