One thing I find effects extremely useful for is using them to sort of “slam” - making your own mix out point/break or something if you will - which often sounds much better than an emergency cut where an element of the mix drops out and it just feels like it is missing something.
For instance - Taking the reverse grain in advanced mode with all the parameters at 100% then turning it on and winding down the speed parameter really destroys the track and gives it an air-raid like whining tone. I then often wind down the grain/pitch to smoothly take away this tone by really destroying it in turn.
Another good one is using ramp delay and freezing, but winding up or down the time knob to pitch the frozen bit up or down and have it fade out
Classic slow turntable stop always seems to be effective, but a bit cheesy.
I guess any sort of effect Idea that kills the track quickly, but does it in a musical way that sounds like something in production would be welcome! These are what effects should be all about - not just knob twisting wank that makes you look busy.
I don’t have too much experience with effects, but the ones I concurrently use the most are delay, beatmasher and filter. Obviously the most basic ones out there, but I enjoy them for what they are. They prove to be useful. A couple other ones I play around with are flanger and gater.
Don’t have too much experience with the other effects only because I’m not not sure how to use them best, i.e. freezing, reverse grain, tranpose stretch, reverb, bass-o-matic. Advice on how to best applies these?
There is one combination I like the most when it comes to brake effect mapped to one button. It’s Masher at value 1.000 with Transpose, Filter, TTFX, etc as 1.000 to 0.000 sweep.
Add in > FX Unit > Effect Selector / type-button / mode-direct / value-Delay
Add in > FX Unit > Unit On / type-button / mode-toggle
Add in > FX Unit > Button 2 / type-button / mode-toggle
Add in > FX Unit > Button 3 / type-button / mode-direct / value-0
Add in > FX Unit > DryWet / type-button / mode-direct / value-0.300
Add in > FX Unit > Knob 1 / type-button / mode-direct / value-0.600
Add in > FX Unit > Knob 2 / type-button / mode-direct / value-0.400
Add in > FX Unit > Knob 3 / type-button / mode-direct / value-0.300
Add in > FX Unit > FX Unit Mode Selector / type-button / mode-direct / value-Single
Add in > FX Unit > FX Store preset / type-button / mode-trigger
To be honest, I’m too new at this topic to really know what any of that means. Perhaps you’d be willing to elaborate a little bit more? I’m still in the middle of the learning curve.
Those are Echo freeze mapping parameters. All you have to do is to enable ‘Learn’ button in controller manager and start adding those commands and map it to same button.
Dang, map all of that to the same button? That is intense for just one effect. But well worth it I presume. I was testing it out a bit and found that it didn’t allow me to select “toggle” for the mode. Am I doing something wrong? Doesn’t it matter which button on the laptop it gets mapped to?
I’m not sure what you mean by “line” I was trying to Add in Effect 1 Selector with FX Unit 1. Does that help? And what does clicking “Learn” do to the assignment table? And does modifier conditions need to be changed/edited at all?
Yeap…this is how much of a noob I am at FX controls and assigning. I’m just beginning to dig into that layer of DJing as well as how to utilize samples/remix decks lol.
I meant which of the lines from parameters are you having problem to set as mode-toggle? Learn function - really? You should definitely check some basic mapping tutorials before jumping into this.
Basically. I’m trying to figure out where to begin and where I can find some of the most basic tutorials. Hopefully youtube will prove to be useful for this one.
So correct me if I’m wrong.. you have a chain of Beatmasher/Transpose/TTFX with dry/wet at 100% and all three at 1.0 then turning a knob (and/or button) engages the effect and everything decreases in the same proportion? No idea whatsoever what this sounds like but sounds cool.
Not chained to same button. Actually it’s a part from my custom mapping for arcade controller, I got eight modifier page grid mapped in and one of modes I named ‘Brake FX’ contain this effect. Basically, I use four buttons with Beatmasher at 1.000 (no sweep - stays at 1.000) and every of four buttons creates a different effect sweep with Beatmasher on top of it. I also mapped every sweep effect to reset at 1.000 every time the button is released.
I was trying to Add in Effect 1 Selector with FX Unit 1. Does that help? And what does clicking “Learn” do to the assignment table? And does modifier conditions need to be changed/edited at all?