Automating effect volume/mix without changing the midi instrument volume

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

Keep in mind that simply mixing a percentage of the dry signal with a percentage of the wet signal is rarely the correct way to fade effects in/out. In most cases this will likely produce a phasing effect or comb-filter and may also introduce other artifacts.

One of the few cases where mixing dry/wet is correct are reverbs.

The point is that only the plugin knows what the correct way to interpolate the signals is, and hence the plugin has to provide a dry/wet control if it is appropriate.

[Alkukoira (AlkuK)]

So would the “solution” to said DAW ‘problematics’ be to have virtually every feature a DAW could imaginatively have? That’s crazy, as in reaching for the moon with human hands.

Good luck and kudos in pleasing everyone. Has it ever worked for anyone, however?

22. huhtik. 2023 klo 20.12 kirjoitti no-reply@ardour.org:

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

PS. One way to accomplish this is described:

Dry/wet fader for plugins

There are only a few cases where a cross-fade is correct for a given DSP. There are also cases where it fails completely. Plugins with latency are an example (the dry paths will have to be delayed accordingly). If it makes sense to have a dry/wet control it should be provided by the plugin. In any case you can do this in Ardour on a per-plugin basis using Pin Connections, using an A/B cross-fade plugin: [image] The bypassed signal (dashed lines) are also delay compensated in case the plugin…