Parallel Mode Effect Link

Ideas & suggestions
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To apply two or more effects in parallel on a track, at present in Renoise it’s possible realize this stratagem (assuming that our track is Track X):

  • insert a new empty track (Track Y) near Track X;
  • clone contents of Track X to Track Y;
  • apply an effect on Track X;
  • apply another effect on Track Y;
  • halve volume of Track X and Track Y.

It should be more practical and easy to manage a little (and automatizable :-D) ComboBox-control (like the output route box) on each track, with these 2 simple options:

  • Series-Cascade Mode (default option);
  • Parallel Mode (second option).
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You can also do this by connecting two send tracks to “Track X” and apply the different effects there (S0 and S1) - just to avoid having the same contents in two tracks.

3

Very interesting: it useful to use the Send Tracks 00, 01, 02, …, for parallel link of DSP effects.

Thanks, Uffe Auring!

4

When is it useful to have parallel effects?

5

Splajn, I’ll illustrate an example.

Suppose to want harmonize a monophonic vocal track (1 only singer) with an 8 voices choir effect, but your VST harmonizer supports maximum 4

voices choir effect (like AKAI DecaBuddy or Steinberg VoiceMachine).

How to resolve this problem?

Simple: in parallel mode, on monophonic vocal track, apply 2 (or more) istances of your 4Voices VST harmonizer effect. You have to program a

different harmony on each istance.

In this case, the series-cascade mode doesn’t work correctly: output of first istance (harmony 4 voices) goes into input of second istance,

but VST harmonizers work correctly with only 1 voice in input. Conclusion: second istance of VST harmonizer doesn’t work correctly and so you

are forced to cancel second istance and to content yourself with an only 4 voices choir effect (first istance effect).

Why?

In series-cascade mode, each DSP-Effect from 2nd to X receives in input the output of previous DSP-Effect. Only 1st DSP-Effect receives in

input pure original audio signal. In this mode, DSP-Effects sequence is very important.

In parallel mode, instead, each DSP-Effect works independently, without interfere with other DSP-Effects, because each DSP-Effect receives in

input pure original audio signal (in our example, 1 voice vocal track). In this mode, DSP-Effects sequence is not important.

I hope that my example and my explanation are clean.

VBAlk