i'm going through a little bit of a workflow revamp and want some opinions and ideas from you all about how to set up FX.
i mainly do 2 deck mixing with 4 FX panels with my BCD 3000 and padKONTROL as controllers.
right now, i have all my FX set up on my korg padkontrol using farmpad. i have 8 buttons dedicated to activating effects for each deck (4 FX x 2 decks = 8 FX on/off buttons).
then i have 4 modifier buttons dedicated to controlling each bank. so if i have modifier 1 on, then my x/y axis, the three buttons next to it, as well as two other knobs all control FX bank 1. if all 4 modifier buttons are turned on, then i control all 12 chained FXs with just a couple of fingers (handy, but there's almost never any reason to actually do this).
this workflow has proven pretty sweet, as i love having precise control over each chained FX. but as you can imagine, it gets pretty messy (ie impossible) when i start doing different FX on different lvls on different decks.... enter smart knobs?
in my head, it seemed like it would be easier if i did away with the control modifiers and simply assigned a single effect, or a good combination of a few to a specific knob. then one knob would always be gater + filter + dry/wet for that chain, x/y would always be phaser + iceverb, etc... but i ran into problems with this too.
^all that description was probably unnecessary for the question i'm actually after: what works for you? a limited, but precise control over just some core FX, or a flexible, amorphous mapping that gives just a few inputs potential control over a bunch of effects? i'm trying to make the best use of my button/knob real estate: over both of my controllers i've got an x/y axis, ~20 buttons, and 6 knobs free.
(i did snoop around for some threads about this but searching for "effects setup" wasn't exactly precise. so i'm sorry if this issue has been beaten to death!)
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