By Fretless
Tue Aug 09, 2022 3:14 am
Hey! Been using my MPC hardware for a while now (I have a One that I've been using for a few years and a MPC Key 61), and I have been wondering if there's a better way to do external effects routing than what I'm currently doing. I am currently operating in standalone mode. I am working on integrating my guitar effects into the MPC environment, mostly for the fun of having some external controls to fiddle around with while jamming. I have two focusrite 18i20 and a bunch of strymons I use as well.
Right now I have the 4 send/returns going out to my strymon reverb and delays (bigsky/nightsky/timeline/volante) which takes up all of those slots. I also have a mobius and a deco that I like to use as well. What I'm currently doing is sending audio I want to send to those pedals to a submix, routing the submix out to the pedal, and then back in to an audio effects track. For example program 1 outputs to sub 2 which routes to the deco which routes back to an audio track.
My problems here is that I can't do a wet/dry mix for these two effects (to the best of my knowledge) when routed this way, and I can't send audio from the deco effected signal to the mobius in parallel (again to the best of my knowledge).
Am I doing this the most effective way given the limitations of the hardware? I know I could use the built in effects, but I really quite like the sound of the strymon effects and I would really love to have them integrated as best as I can into the rig. Thanks for reading my wall of gibberish.
Right now I have the 4 send/returns going out to my strymon reverb and delays (bigsky/nightsky/timeline/volante) which takes up all of those slots. I also have a mobius and a deco that I like to use as well. What I'm currently doing is sending audio I want to send to those pedals to a submix, routing the submix out to the pedal, and then back in to an audio effects track. For example program 1 outputs to sub 2 which routes to the deco which routes back to an audio track.
My problems here is that I can't do a wet/dry mix for these two effects (to the best of my knowledge) when routed this way, and I can't send audio from the deco effected signal to the mobius in parallel (again to the best of my knowledge).
Am I doing this the most effective way given the limitations of the hardware? I know I could use the built in effects, but I really quite like the sound of the strymon effects and I would really love to have them integrated as best as I can into the rig. Thanks for reading my wall of gibberish.