Concept for MXXX | MTurboStrip | MSuperStrip | MJumboStrip | MStrip | MTurboRack

[C.M.Dess]

Just thought of this today....MXXX or it's own plugin from Melda.

The plugin would consist of batches of Channel Strips.

Vocal CS
Drum CS
Sound Design FX CS
Master Bus CS
Guitar CS
Keyboard CS
Warmth CS
80ies CS
8Bit CS
DJ CS

Each Strip would have about 10 Effects slots. Each FX slot has the most important knobs ready to go to adjust the sound. Each category has multiple variety of strips and effects to provide the ideal stacks of effects, so there would be many vocal strips, many drum strips...Depending on how deep the concept, to achieve a particular sound from particular recording styles. In targeting groups you are providing fast precision. Also you are organizing placement of functions in this concept because you know where to go to adjust things quickly as opposed to have a great sounding plugin but the knobs of functionality are scattered differently than the last plugin. So if you chose the Vocal Strip or the Sound Design Strip, you know where to go quickly to make adjustments to each section. Bonus animation section to add modulators quickly that are useful for the given strip.

What this does is provide structure and speed to the effects rack (channel strip) concept. You don't have to dig around menus and load multiple effects to achieve something on the fly in the middle of a production. You don't have to guess what the pro is using for the strip because they included it in the preset.

While MXXX does everything under the sun, there's not really a "fireworx" or "harmonizer" style FX module where one can quickly load it to have access to tons of effects at once. There may be some preset buried in the system that is close but this is sort of taking the concept to a XXL destination.

I hope to get a chance to flesh this out soon but in case others out there want to develop a plugin oriented around it within the melda ecosystem I'm putting the idea out there.

Idea came to me initially a few days ago when I thought it would be cool to have something that I could put on drums to make it sound like it exploded and froze at random times by pressing a button. But the other day I was looking around for a channel strip for vocals and there weren't a lot of options, surprisingly.

1 Strip could be 5 effects deep. Another could be 10...etc (different plugins), to conserve CPU respectively.

This is the referenced TC Fireworx (TC Electronic Fireworx)


Harmonizer


What Eventide is up to these days:


Here's an image just for an experiment opening up 10 MXXX within MXXX through the modular component. I was able to open up all the windows with the shift key modifier.

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