Send Device:

Ideas & suggestions
1

The current send device has a switch between Mute Source and Keep Source. I think it would be really cool if that could be changed to a silder simply called ‘Dry’. At 100% it is the same as Keep Source and 0% the same as Mute - and all other 256 positions between are a gradient.

This would mean I could automate Dry-Wet fades without using a post-gate or a gainer. Anyone who has done the effect movement of ‘Dry sound with a bit of verb fading out to a completely wet verb sound’ would know what I mean.

Having a Dry parameter could also mean lots of other curly effects tricks could be achieved via automation and send channels.

Useful? Could be an easy one for 1.6?

2

Yes, definitely! This gets my vote!

3

:yeah: incidentally i have been thinking about this effect also and trying to
figure out how to do it smoothly. I had a start of a song looking like this.

intro -> wet, splashy
1st verse -> “ultradry”

Its a common trick in “pop-music” but its can an effect that certainly can be used
for more creative themes, as we renoisers are accustomed to :D

4

It’s a little fiddly, but certainly can be done in renoise:

  1. Use your favourite verb vst in a send channel with no Dry and all Wet.
  2. Got the source channel(s) and put a Send Device on each using the Keep Source setting for each.
  3. After each Send Device put a renoise-gate.
  4. Set the gate threshold to 100%
  5. Set the floor value as 0%
  6. Over the desired patterns automate the floor parameter of the gate to move steadily from 0%-100%.
  7. Presto!

Of course if you had a Wet/Dry parameter on the Send Device you wouldn’t need as many steps.

5

A dry parameter would be excellent, because that way I could assign it to my external controller and flick on and off the dry signal live.

6

you may want to add a gainer into the DSP chain before the send device (or even on the send track) to work around this

7

Why I’ve shied away from using the Gainer is because ‘full volume’ is only set at 25%: so a fade from ‘full volume’ to ‘no volume’ has to use that small range from 25%-0%. This makes it a little fiddly with automation, and you have decreased resolution. Using the Gate’s floor value you get a full 100% to play with :)

Unless I’m mis-intrepting what you mean by the gainer. ? :unsure:

8

This is already possible, just add a Send track with no effect. Example:

  • S1 - Your Effect (ex: reverb)
  • S1 - No Effect
  • T1 -> SendDevice1, Keep Source, Receiver: S1 -> SendDevice2, Mute Source, Receiver: S2