Effect instant on/off.

Verbal · Post by **Verbal** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 7:48 pm

I have a BCR and have a knobs mapped to the sends of certain tracks. It's kinda hard to do a quick stab of an effect using a knob.

What's the best way to do quick effect stab using a midi controller? Is there a way to map a button effect on/off? I know it can be done if you only have a single effect on the return, but if I have effects grouped the on/off button doesn't work.

I'm using Live 5, not sure if this works differently with racks in 6.

RePeter · Post by **RePeter** » Fri Mar 23, 2007 8:39 pm

with the racks in 6 you can just turn the whole chain on and off, this would solve your problem.... time to upgrade me thinks

RePeter · Post by **RePeter** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:45 am

Was thinking a bit more about this last night, you could might be able to write a dummy clip to trigger all the efx at once.

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:54 am

RePeter wrote:Was thinking a bit more about this last night, you could might be able to write a dummy clip to trigger all the efx at once.

Still need Live 6 to access to On/off switches.

Fever606 · Post by **Fever606** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:26 pm

I, too, have Live 5, and I have a couple setups where keyboard keys are mapped to Send knobs... works pretty well. Tap the key once turns the send all the way up (or to whatever max vaule you set), tap it again turns it back down (to whatever min value you have set).

hoffman2k · Post by **hoffman2k** » Sat Mar 24, 2007 2:57 pm

hoffman2k wrote:
RePeter wrote:Was thinking a bit more about this last night, you could might be able to write a dummy clip to trigger all the efx at once.
Still need Live 6 to access to On/off switches.

To clarify.
You can do it in Live 5. In Live 6 you can assign on/off switches to a macro and automate that.
For some effects, I've set it up so that all the effects in the chain are turned "off" when I turned the "dry/wet" control down.

To do this, there's one problem you need to work around.

When using a macro to flip a switch, it will only work when you moved the controller past the middle.
If you group the rack you're working in, inside another rack. You can use the value ranges of macros to make it so that the effect is turned on when you reach value "1" and turned fo when you reach value "0".

The knob i use for dry/wet is the same knob that is sued to turn the effects on and off.
This depends which effects you're working with though. I only use this when working with CPU intensive stuff.