Originally Posted by
Zac Kyoti
It depends. In dumb mode the APC40 top layer of device control section buttons act natively as toggles, while the bottom send momentary messages. It also depends whether your controls are doing double duty (like sometimes a row operates on one fx unit, and at other times a different one). If you had a modifier that just defines an "fx bank" as being active, you could potentially have say, the same four buttons controlling the four fx units in Traktor depending on which you've chosen, and just use regular output commands, just with the condition of the modifier as part of the command. That would be one modifier only, in four different states (or two, if you only use two fx units).
Example: pick four buttons or just one that you'll cycle with, and set each to make M1 a value. Each button or cycle step just changes the value. 0 to 3 would work fine. Pick the four buttons you'll use for the fx unit, and set up commands (in and out) such that each complete group only responds when it's particular modifier condition is met. Fx unit 1 has M1=0, fx unit 2 has M1=1, and so on. Play around with the command "Effect Is On", in conjunction with that "beat phase monitor" command too. You might be able to use this to get your "flashing when on only" behavior. Try with the modifier scheme I described above, you might be able to nail this down using only one or two modifiers, depending on your set-up.
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