Creating macros on sound locked track with A4

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#1

So if I have one of my tracks that has drums on it but with sounds locks, so with a kick snare and hat, is it possible to control a parameter of all the sounds on the track at once. Similar to how you can “control all” on the model cycles. For example, if I wanted to have a macro on my drum track that controlled the amp decay time of all of the sounds in that track, is this possible?

#2

Hi,
Seems you need to read performance mode from the manual :wink:

#3

i did but there doesn’t seem to be anything about in the manual…

#4

9.3 PERFORMANCE MODE
The PERFORMANCE mode makes it possible to control five track parameters, which can be chosen from any track, at the same time by turning a single DATA ENTRY knob. This is called a performance macro.

Maybe you should try again ? :content:

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#5

It’s not exactly a control all function, you can define a set of parameters and depth, positive or negative.

You can define 10 of these performances which you can also stack.

As mentioned before there is a whole chapter in the manual.

Very powerful stuff and a lot of fun.

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#6

i think sound locked sounds will just snap back to their parameters when they are triggered.

#7

i think maybe you’re misunderstanding. i want to control the parameters of multiple different sounds that are all sound locked in a single track…

#8

I dont have an A4 but I would say : set up these patches with the same modwheel modulation, then in perf mode control them with the modwheel

#9

This is possible with performance macros. If you have a bunch of trigs that are sound-locked to kick, snare, hihat (or anything, really), the performance macros’ parameter values will be added to each trig’s parameters. So if you use a performance macro to increase amp decay time, all the trigs will get the same increase in amp decay time, even if you turn the macro and leave it alone. This is unlike the control-all on the Digitakt and Digitone, where the sound-locked trig will jump from their sound-locked values to the current value you’re changing. If you stop turning a knob while doing control-all, the sound-locked trigs will go back to playing their sound-locked values.

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#10

ah ok for some reason it wasn’t doing it before but it is now. case closed!

#11

IIRC there are some workarounds to have macros overriding Soundlocks parameters without parameters reset : plock certain soundlocks parameters.
See what I mean ?

#12

Like I said :wink:

#13

I’m lost, what do you mean?

Edit: oh, right. Yeah you can p-lock stuff on sound-locked trigs just like any other trigs.

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