Next level effects: Record your own

Here is my vision of FX nextlevelness: record your own time based FX macros. A bit like the sadly missed NMX recorder:

I envision a bank of 3 buttons in each FX panel for 'user macros'. These will be different for every advanced effect and every combination of chained effects.

How it works: You bring up the effect or combination of effects you want to record. You right or ctrl-click the macro button you want to record. It starts flashing. You hit On for the FX panel and start tweaking those knobs. When you are finished you hit off. Traktor records all of the movements of the knobs and quantizes the length of the macro you've recorded to the nearest beat.

Next time you want to use the effect macro that you've recorded you bring up the advanced fx or combination of chained fx to the screen. You can see that you've recorded a macro. You click it. Traktor plays the macro back and then automagically turns the FX off at the end whilst you concentrate on something else.

Who's with me?

 

nice! +1

 

Wow, great idea, kind of like automation in a DAW (you can essentially do exactly this with dummy clips in ableton)

+1!

 

I was thinking exactly like dummy clips in Ableton. I think I might be able to achieve myself just using Maschine 1.5 standalone MIDI slaved to Traktor too, but this will take some research time that I don't particularly have at the moment!

 

+10000
i was about to request this

 

Yeah. Or you could implement it like the loop recorder with Pro S4 but for the MIDI data. Next levelness.

I think tight integration of stuff like this would be ideal for DJs, rather than Serato & Ableton cut'n'shut bloat.

 

+1 really good stuff. Totally next levelness!

 

Yeah definitely. You wouldn't even need to know what Ableton or a dummy Midi Clip was. Just click 'Record FX Automation', record a few times until you've got it right, then name it and save it and you're done.

Of course, I'd want the resulting file to be MIDI so you 'could' go in and tweak it somewhere if you had the know-how.

Plus then we could have a little forum library of cool stuff to swap.

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Actually, I'm fairly stoked to try this out with Machine standalone and Traktor. Too many gigs and what remains of our miserable summer coming up at the minute though.

 

+1 YES. I really like the way you are thinking about this. I'd be happy if you could just save a combination of effects settings and give it a name you could choose from a menu -- you can do this by programming a midi button to do it but it's not as intuitively organized as a list of saved settings -- but this takes it to a whole other level. One-button effects combos like this would be amazing.