I put forward a couple of feature requests on the NI forums for time-related auto FX:
New effect: Loop Roll Plus
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Okay, so we know Serato has loop roll, and it's quite good? Here is how I envisage it working in Traktor. Of course it has some improvements:
It is basically a cross between the beatmasher and beatslicer with an extra element: a time constraint. After 8 or 16 beats the effect disengages, so it is truly 'fire and forget' like the Serato loop roll!
Advanced
Encoders:
(1) Dry/Wet
(2) Incoporate 'buzz' into the patterns... like beatslicer
(3) Pattern select
(4) Pattern select... like beatslice
Pattern 1/1 would be the standard Serato 'halve the loop' thing. Other patterns would rhythmically vary, the guiding principle being that the snippets get busier to create a buildup effect. The snippets would start from different parts of the sample like the beatslicer too.
Buttons:
(1) On/Off - fire and forget, the effect will disengage automagically
(2) Effect reset
(3) Incorporate 'reverse' into the patterns... like Beatmasher 1
(4) 8/16 beat duration
Even though the principle is 'fire and forget' to keep your hands free, you can still tweak the settings at any time or disengage the effect yourself.
Chained
The most common and musical sounding paramers from above.
Next level effects: Record your own
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Here is my vision of FX nextlevelness: record your own time based FX macros. A bit like the sadly missed NMX recorder:
I envision a bank of 3 buttons in each FX panel for 'user macros'. These will be different for every advanced effect and every combination of chained effects.
How it works: You bring up the effect or combination of effects you want to record. You right or ctrl-click the macro button you want to record. It starts flashing. You hit On for the FX panel and start tweaking those knobs. When you are finished you hit off. Traktor records all of the movements of the knobs and quantizes the length of the macro you've recorded to the nearest beat.
Next time you want to use the effect macro that you've recorded you bring up the advanced fx or combination of chained fx to the screen. You can see that you've recorded a macro. You click it. Traktor plays the macro back and then automagically turns the FX off at the end whilst you concentrate on something else.
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This got me thinking: assuming these aren't announced on Monday, could I do it myself? I think I can, in this brainfart I'll be using TPro, Maschine and Ableton:
(1) Arm a MIDI clip in Ableton, have it listen to the output from my VCI
(2) Hit record, play tune in TPro, mess with FX until I get the required 8 or 16 or 32 beat effect (say a beat roll buildup)
(3) Tidy up MIDI clip and quantize
(4) Have the clip output the MIDI (Midi-Yoke? Bomes?)
(5) Traktor is set up to input this MIDI
(6) Trigger my MIDI clip from MIDI mode in Maschine
(7) Voila! You've recorded and are using your own 'fire and forget' FX!
Thoughts? Comments? I'm not gonna have a chance to set this up for a couple of weeks probably...
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