<a name="planetz-file"></a><a href="http://www.planetz.com/Pulsar/files/mod ... .zip"><img src="/forums/images/file_icon.gif" border="0" alt=" File"> File</a><BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Type: Utility<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Pulsar Version: SFP 3.1<BR> <a name="planetz-tag"></a>Requires: Modular 2<BR> _____________________________________<BR><BR> This was originally going to be a post to "Device/Module Wishlist" - for all effects to have a 'bypass gain' control added to them, the idea being that one could adjust this such that one could easily make equal-volume comparisons between the effected sound and the bypassed sound.
However, inspired by at0m|c's answer to my question in the 'grouping mixer faders' thread and a pint of beer, I came up with a solution to this problem.
Exactly how one sets things up depends on whether the effect in question is used as an insert in a mixer or 'alone' in the routing window. Some things are the same for both, however:
1. Assign a MIDI CC to the bypass switch of the effect unit
2. Assign the same MIDI CC to the 1:4 switch in the simple modular patch
If the effect is used 'alone', it needs to be popped into a 'midi-izer'. Then take the MIDI output of the midi-izer and connect to the MIDI in of the modular patch. Route the audio from the effect (from the midi-izer) into the modular and out of the modular to where the signal was originally going (e.g. a mixer).
When the bypass switch is clicked on, the 1:4 switch in the modular changes between #1 and #4, so set-up the gain inside the modular to give you equal volume for both effected and bypassed signals. There seemed to be a bit of loss going through the early parts of the patch, hence the 12db gain module. I set things up with a test signal so that I had unity gain with the mixer module's gain controls set to their default positions (12 o'clock). That way, it was easy to adjust the effected (or bypassed) signal up or down.
If the effect is used as a mixer insert:
Connect the mixer's MIDI output to the MIDI in of the modular patch
Take the mixer channel in question out of the mix
Take the direct out of the mixer into the modular patch
Take the output of the modular patch back into another mixer channel
NOTE: there are two flavours of modular patch - the one with 'mixer' in the name has the 'xmod/feedback' module to get around the feedback warning you get when connecting the modular output back to the mixer (SFP won't allow this without the feedback module).
That's about it. Perhaps this has already been done, or there's a simpler way around it but I found it very useful when mixing yesterday setting up equal-volume comparisons for some EQing.
edit: the patches are for mono signals - it'd be pretty trivial to change them to handle stereo ones
Royston
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