How to modulate a track send?

[Andrew Smith]

Hi New user, still learning.

I've got a track with MidiShaper modulating Pro-Q through a couple of CCs. I pressed ctrl+enter to bring up the commander and clicked something without knowing what it did! Now for some reason the MidiShaper/Pro-Q modulation has broken. Any idea how I've broken it?

^^ figured it out. I don't know what I did in the commander, but somehow I'd turned off the sends inside MidiShaper! Weird.

How do you modulate a track send? I'm using MidiShaper to generate a CC from an LFO, and I want to use the CC to control the track send amount. I know how to use the CC to modulate instruments/plugins but I don't know how to control the track send.

Thank you

[Andrew Smith]

I managed to do what I needed to do by creating an FX layer with one dry and one wet layer, putting a Tool at the beginning of the wet layer, and modulating the gain. I don't know if this is the best way or not, it seems like a lot of extra steps when you could just modulate the send to a return track. But for now it gets the job done.

[ere2learn]

Project level modulator

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[Andrew Smith]

The project-level stuff is up-stream from MIDI generator devices on a track, so it's impossible to do project-level modulation with a MIDI generator device. Maybe I didn't do it right though, I'll try again...

[Andrew Smith]

Even with MidiShaper as the only device on a track, the project-level modulators don't receive the CC.

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[pdxindy]

The project-level stuff is up-stream from MIDI generator devices on a track, so it's impossible to do project-level modulation with a MIDI generator device. Maybe I didn't do it right though, I'll try again...

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

[Andrew Smith]

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

I'm not figuring this out at all. Any chance you could give me a step-by-step? I've only been using Bitwig for 2 days and I've figured out all the other routing stuff I need to do, but there's obviously something simple here that I'm not getting!

[pdxindy]

The Project level has its own track input. You can set it to receive from your plugin on a separate track, and then use a Midi Modulator to control a send.

I'm not figuring this out at all. Any chance you could give me a step-by-step? I've only been using Bitwig for 2 days and I've figured out all the other routing stuff I need to do, but there's obviously something simple here that I'm not getting!

My mistake... I just tried it and it doesn't work at the project level because it could create a feedback loop.