Effecting effectrix without effecting loop?

[scatterrat]

I Have been having alot of fun with effectrix but cannot seem to figure out how to insert an effect on the effectrix midi controlled instrument insert without the effect affecting the source loop. So for example I put a delay in the insert of the effectrix midi controlled instrument track and the effect is heard on the loop without effectrix even being triggered. Then I trigger effectrix via midi and it also go through the effect (which is what I want) but would like for the triggered effectrix signal to be the only thing going through, without the loop being effected.


Its probably something I have over looked but I just thought I would check and see if this is possible.

[Sugar Bytes]

I am not sure what you mean. As i understand you have inserted Effectrix in an instrument track and routed a audio track via sidechain to it. You have to turn down the volume of the source audio track in order to fully affect your signal with effectrix. I am not quite sure what you want to do with another delay plugin. Maybe you have to read the logic manual, since this sounds like a routing issue which is unrelated to effectrix.

[meister eder]

@ scatterrat:
If I understand you correctly, you want to hear the dry loop, when Effectrix is not triggered.
Since Effectrix just passes audio through, when not triggered, it's only natural that your loop will be affected by any effect you insert after Effectrix. But...

You could achieve this using two instances of Effectrix on two separate instrument tracks.
On the 1st instrument track, apply your patterns as you did before, but whenever you would normally not trigger Effectrix, trigger a "mute" pattern instead. That is: put either Effectrix's reverb or delay effect on all steps of the pattern and set the 'dry level' and the 'wet level' to 0.00%. This way, whenever you trigger that pattern key, you get silence on that instrument track.
Now put a 2nd Effectrix on a 2nd instrument track, feed the same loop via sidechain into it, and make the opposite pattern assignement. That is: on all pattern keys, where the 1st Effectrix should affect the loop, you put a "mute" pattern (using the delay or reverb like described above) in the 2nd Effectrix, and on the pattern key where the 1st Effectrix mutes the loop, leave a empty pattern in the 2nd Effectrix (so that the dry loop will pass through).
Use a ghost MIDI region (alias) of the 1st track on the 2nd track, so that the same pattern keys will be triggered in both instances of Effectrix.


@Sugar Bytes:
This might be a good idea for the next incarnation of Effectrix, a possible "multi out" version. You could implement a final stage after the reverb, that does nothing but route audio to different outputs on a per-step base (including attack/release parameters). This way the user could set up a bunch of busses in the host, with different VST/AU effects on them, and Effectrix could rhythmically feed those busses.

[scatterrat]

I'm just trying to insert an effect on the track that effectrix is instanciated on and hear the effect when triggering effectrix, but not hear the effect when I am not triggering, which is what is happening now.
Its definetly not effectrix related accept that I happen to be trying to use it in this scenario.

[meister eder]

I'm just trying to insert an effect on the track that effectrix is instanciated on and hear the effect when triggering effectrix, but not hear the effect when I am not triggering

Which is exactly what you can achieve with the routing scenario that I described above.