Hello, I purchased VST Live a few days ago and am trying to familiarize with the structure, terminology. I am Cubase user, so I have a background in mixing. I have investigated the demo and the manual to understand some things and want to do something, but I can’t find the way. The closest I found in this forum what this thread:
I want to do the following:
In a part of a song, lets say Verse I, I have a stack where I loaded a phaser insert. But I want that this phaser is applied just in specific points and the rest of the time (inside Verse I) is muted. From the manual I understand that with a midi track I could control when the stack is muted or not. The same with individual effects inside the stack. For example, in the stack I have a phaser and an amp, but I want that the phaser goes off and on during Verse I. But I am lost on how to achieve that. Is it possible, for example to turn off the stack during Verse I and then to turn it on before Verse I ends?
Take a look into Actions/Schortcuts. There you can add a MIDI-CC to mute/unmute a stack or enable/disable specific inserts. The MIDI-CC can come from an external source (e.g. pedal) or from a MIDI track.
Right, as Falfango said.
In the controlling track, use one of the Virtual MIDI Out ports (say, 2), and choose the same input number for the Stack/Insert MIDI (in the example that would be Virtual Midi In 2).
and assigned to the midi track the virtual midi out 6. But, which data should I write in the midi track self? I work with midi in a basic way, triggering VSTi.
First, assign a MIDI status. Any will do, best to take one of the “General Purpose” but it doesn’t really matter.
To mute Stack 1 at bar 5, create a MIDI track and a MIDI event there (double click on the track), locate where you want the mute to happen, open edit/MIDI List Editor and insert a controller and program it to match the one in the Actions.
Marked in red box are the real events. The other ones were things I did and deleted before but they still appear here.
EDIT: little mistake: the first event is in position 2, bar 13.1. It is to mute the stack. The second event is in position 5, bar 14.1. That is to unmute the stack, sending the same again.
Sry just quickly reading/typing from phone. If u have issue with, I would try mode: toggle instead of btn if u have probl with, but can’t try if I’m right about. For 1st read, state change with the same noteON in btn mode meight not work correcty.
Thank you. It has worked, actually, but I asked if that was the correct way to program it, because I find it a little cumbersome. Maybe there is an easier way.
And I don’t understand what should happen if I select “Source: Data 2” in Actions and Shortcuts, because I have same result. But it would good to know to future programs.
Usually, you take “Controller” in the “Status” column. It’s fine to take a “Note On” as you do, though.
MIDI Controller messages consist of 3 bytes, Status, data 1 and data 2. If the status is “Controller”, Data1 denotes which controller (you can check to see when you set status to “Controller” and click Data1, you get a list of controllers). Then Data2 is the actual value.
For other stati, Data1 can be chosen as the value source. Some MIDI stati even have only 2 bytes, there, Data1 is taken automatically.
But I am still unable to turn off the third insert in this stack, using controller 21. As the name is Insert3Enable I tried writing values less than and greater than 64, but both of them don’t turn off the insert.
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