Eventide Octavox: how to?

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Eventide Octavox (or Quadravox) is one of the important parts of my live setup. Usually I run it in Cubase and it adds different pitched voices to my and another guitarist’s lead parts. They may vary during one solo: some notes are unisoned, some with 3rd added, some with 5th or octave or different combinations.
All those intervals stored in “Current” snapshot menu of each preset and in Cubase I can easily program their switching by automation line. I also can assign CC controls to switch them through midi, but I can’t find the way to do this in VST Live

Any thoughts?

P.S. I need pre-recorded automation to switch snapshots, as well as some other functions in another plugins

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The next VST Live version features action controls (shortcut or MIDI) for Quick Controls. Also each Stack gets a set of 8 programmable controls for inserts, and send fx.
Automation to come later.

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You mean next update or 2.0 version?

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Next update, 1.1.3, this week we hope. Automation (and much more) for 2.0 then. We focus on stability and workflow right now.

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So I will have a posibility to import Cubase automation to CC commands and assign midi track to control plugins in stacks?

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Can’t say how much of conversion from Cubase will be possible. But you should then be able to automate plugins.

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Oh and quite forgot that 1.1.3 will also feature MIDI Input for all Stack plugins (inserts and fx).

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I can see the 8 manual controls for each effect in the stack window, but how can we link them to a layer or a track ? Where can we see these plugins MIDI Inputs in 1.1.30 ?

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firts impression - looks like something doesn’t work

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… with V1.1.30 we have added the function to use a MIDI Input device to every Audio Plug-In which support MIDI-In. The setup has been added to the header of the Plug-In

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… but I guess you are looking for the function to send MIDI events from a MIDI Track to a STACK insert. This will be added with the next Updates.

Michael

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Oh, great ! So we can use Virtual MIDI sockets to send a MIDI track to a VST FX ? I’ll try today…

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… that should work. Let us be part of your journey and let us know what you have achieved.

/Michael

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It works! I have a sequencer track for vocals harmonies that I sent to one Virtual Midi Out 1. On the global stack dedicated to my microphone, I inserted a Waves Harmony plugin, set the Midi input to Virtual Midi In 1 and my harmonies are generated!

I’m not sure if the two Virutal Midi sockets are included in VL or if I previously installed another tool to have them…

Anyway, this solves what was lacking the most for my case.

Thank you and stay on that way!

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They are.
Great solution, honestly would not have thought of it :slight_smile:
We will nevertheless enable sending MIDI from tracks to Stacks later. But it’s great to know about your solution until then, thanks!

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Just skipped some of the recent updates. Does it work now on 1.1.65?

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Is it working now?

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… no, but it’s coming soon,
Michael.

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