Gate Effect Midi Trigger

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Hi,

I searched the forums and tested different effects.
I found triggergate very useful because of its "tight"
settings, but it lecks the possibility to choose
a different source from the internal sequencer.

The guys from Ohmforce did a preset (thanks anyway )
to use the VCF in Quadfromage, but to me it sounds
not the way I need it.

I used the midigate inside Cubase SX,
but it seems quite slow.
I used my old 4-pole Waldorf vca to do that job, but I need
a stereo gate and prefer vst.

Any idea how to realize that?

Thanks in advance
Philipp

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Is that question too simple or has nobody any idea?

[efluon]

I used the midigate inside Cubase SX,
but it seems quite slow.

have you tried different pitches of input-notes?
the midigate has attack/decay depending on notenumber (although that is adjustable).

and then there is dfx skidder. i remember at least on other. but for me midigate has always worked.

[tl]

Maybe check out
Oli's Advanced Midi Gate,
dfx MIDI Gater or
Ndc's MIDI-Controlled ADSR.

tl.

[quintosardo]

I'm not sure about the effect you need. But you can try this one:

www.sknote.it - "download" page - "Solo" vst synth

Load it, select "Live input" for the first osc and "Inactive" for the others, send your audio to Solo and trigger the envelope by midi notes. You can add all of the processing, there, including waveshaping and filtering.

Maybe I missed the target?

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have you tried different pitches of input-notes?
the midigate has attack/decay depending on notenumber (although that is adjustable).

No, I set "Note To Attack" to zero, so that shouldn´t
make difference?

and then there is dfx skidder. i remember at least on other. but for me midigate has always worked.

I´ll give skidder a try.

Well, midigate definitely works here, too,
I did the track last night using it as I ain´t got an
alternative so far, but to me it sounds like it is "wasting time",
especially when it comes to extremely short gating times.
"Alien homes" by Orichalcum or "Gamma Gobblins" by Hallucinogen are examples
for that kind of short gating times I want to achieve.

Thanks anyway!
Philipp

[c1c2]

Maybe check out
Oli's Advanced Midi Gate,

The feature list looks nice!
Especially "the envelope is tighter than most other midi gates".

dfx MIDI Gater or
Ndc's MIDI-Controlled ADSR.

I´ll try them out. Thanks!
Philipp

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Maybe I missed the target?

Don´t think so, if the gating works that way.
It´s absolutely secondary _how_ I can achieve that effect. Thanks.
Philipp

[kritikon]

Hmmmm....strange what you say about the Cubase Midigate. I've always found it has a good fast attack. Admittedly it can flounder a little if the triggers are extremely close together though - not sure why it does that.

If you're using Cubase, then maybe you could try automation of channel volume, or on midi instruments automating CC7 (midi volume) - can be a bit tedious, but the Logical Editor is a good way of speeding it up.

Another very useful tool would be the PeakMeter (sorry...I can't for the life of me remember who coded it ) It can take the output readings from any audio source and apply it to VST automation - you then just apply the VST automation to the channel fader. Works like a dream, and useful for absolutely any other VST automation parameter. If you want sharper attacks or releases, you can then go in and edit the automation points to vertical lines.
One way of using it to get neat in/out gating would be to record a VSTi played to your desired pattern while the VSTi is set to 0 attack and 0 release.
Try it....you'll love it.

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@ Kritikon:
If I only could try that...
Maybe I should, so that i get familiar with the automation.
I´ll need it sooner or later.

I just read about that peakmeter thing while I was
searching. Maybe this is another good way.

Thanks
Philipp

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Another very useful tool would be the PeakMeter (sorry...I can't for the life of me remember who coded it )

Maybe it´s the one by BlueCat?