OK, I'm new to working with snap heap (though I have lots of experience with making music, programming, etc). I was following along with Dash Glitch's tutorial on using snap heap to toggle between effects based on a sequence driven by an lfo.
All good, then I got the bright idea to modify it to blend between them. So I got one snap heap to work with hard switches, and a separate one to transition smoothly. I think I grok how remaps work, and they are a tremendous tool.
But then I decided to try to make one snap heap that could toggle between hard switch mode and crossfade mode, and that's where I'm foundering. I thought I could use the scale operator to scale the remaps driving the two flavors of switching. It looks like negative scale values holds the remap at zero, and a value of 0 lets the remap work as normal, while a scale value of 1 pegs the remap at the top value.
All fine and good. But I can't get the remap to scan across negative and positive numbers when driven by a macro knob. I want to configure the behavior such that, when the macro knob is on the left half of the dial, it's in switch mode, and when on the right half of the dial it's blend mode. But the scale modulator doesn't seem to work consistently. Or (more likely) I just don't get what it's doing. The manual is pretty thin when describing how the scale modulator works.
Any clues?
I'm including all three of the snap heaps I've come up with, though the combo one isn't working properly.
Any help would be most welcome!
Thanks!
Understanding the scale modulator in snap heap
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Logged in because I thought that sentence means there might be the SnapHeap presets attached, which apparently isn't the case. Definitely would be useful, given this is more on the complex side with lots of modulations going on.HarryLeBlanc wrote: Mon Sep 01, 2025 2:49 am... I'm including all three of the snap heaps I've come up with, ...
I'm assuming you refer to Dash's " ... Looperator/Infiltrator Style FX Sequencers ..." video, or something similar. So that kind of patch is the foundation, then you added a second "layer" (or "mode") where you took the general idea but smoothed it out to have more fluent transitions. And now you're looking for a way to switch between the two layers/modes, is that correct?
Well, I'm not sure why you'd want to use the scale modulator for that in the first place...
The scale module allows you to multiply and/or adjust the range of the incoming mod signal, you can also flip the signal with it. As far I can see you'd like to create a "switch", don't know if the scale modulator makes any sense here.
You said:
Can't you just use a (bipolar) Macro for that?? Like assigning the Macro directly to the respective parameters, without the scale (or any other) modulator in between?I want to configure the behavior such that, when the macro knob is on the left half of the dial, it's in switch mode, and when on the right half of the dial it's blend mode.
