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Originally Posted by TonE
[...] Regarding your example setup: Why did you use 6 sends? For what are you using so many, or did you just want to fill up the empty midi space? I was considering only 4 sends, the typical first two for reverb and delay, then another two for more crazy stuff maybe. How was your thinking?
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Indeed, filling up the empty MIDI space. I thought: if people stumble on this thread to find a quick hack to control sends using MIDI, better give them more rather than less.
The panning may be important for doing stuff like full-stereo impulse reverbs using a pair of ReaVerbs (tip: try a ReaVerb IR matrix using 4 stereo tracks, for separate early and late impulses as well).
Also consider for example the case of multiple musicians using headphone mixes of the other instruments that can individually be adjusted. You'd rather want to control the receives on individual tracks feeding the individual musicians' headphones, but you'd probably also want to use larger numbers of sends/receives than 2 or 4, depending on the number of musicians of course (often using a bunch of groups works well too, of course, but a musician may also like to hear the kick drum out of the drum group a bit louder than the other drums, perhaps).
So it just seemed like a sensible 'general' MIDI mapping targeted mainly at controlling sends, which seemed most appropriate for this thread.
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Originally Posted by TonE
Probably in the beginning I would also not "waste" the midi space with send-pan, but others might see it differently. Instead I would add more controls like filter, eq mainly. But probably also not compression. This would be already too special, somehow, maybe, from my point of view. Not everything needs compression anyway, imo.
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I couldn't agree more. This is completely different from what I'm using myself. My own method of controlling send levels is more dynamic and sophisticated, but also much more complex, and would thus not serve well as an illustrative example here. (To keep things small and simple for this example, I started from scratch and hacked it between two coffees, only reusing a few abstractions that I made earlier, iirc [mk+] for the display, and [round] which is only used to compact the layout a little bit really. But those are already 'toppings': it would also work fine as a convertor without the 'pretty' display and a bit more spaghetti on a single plate.
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Originally Posted by TonE
In general, I liked your mapping style for simplistic mapping. For my use case I would modify it to my needs, as described in a former posting here.[...]
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I'll be glad to help you set up the basics of that as well. It does not seem very complex to do, but it does seem very 'personalized'. Much like mine.