EditEd4TV_SubGroupControl

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This is a new method I've developed for creating a subgroup in Record, thereby giving you control of multiple channels via one channel strip fader.

You can use this single channel strip fader to directly control any given number of sub channels, no limits. This fader strip at full 100% has no effect on the sub channel volumes but as you begin to lower this fader, the other volumes follow, all the way to 0%.

It's not perfect, I need to do some calibration and tweaking still, but it's probably good enough for use by the masses. I suppose I'll arrive at "perfection" once we start finding limitations and errors.

Get the file here:
http://www.baumanproductions.com/reco...

I did make a few mistakes in the is video, primary one being that the "Trim" knob should be at 0% for the fader to be passive (in this video I open the file at 100%, and eventually move it to 50%). When the "Trim" knob is set to 0%, bringing the fader up to 100% will essentially allow the audio in each subbed channel to pass without any volume reduction whatsoever. If you need to "boost" from here, you can set your fader to default (0 dB), and the "Trim" knob to default (50%), and this should again be passive, but now you can boost your audio up from 0 dB. I don't think I'd recommend this implementation, but the option is there.

This file comes preloaded with three Dr.Rex loops from the Reason Factory Soundbank, simply as a demonstration.

Some great features of this method:

* There is very little you need to do to any project you've already recorded... no need to mess with creating new routings with your audio cables, no moving audio cables, no adjusting levels, no additional mixers created with the need to match whatever you had in Record's mixer, etc. All you lose is Aux Send 8.

* The individual channel strip level LED's will fade with the master subgroup fader that you're moving, you actually see the levels drop as you move just that one fader (you see the LED levels drop, not the actual fader).

* As you move this master subgroup fader, effects will fade as well, as opposed to other methods we've seen before (tapping audio off the direct out jacks) where you can fade a master subgroup but effects on the individual channels continue to feed volume to the effects, so all your reverbs and delays continue to ring out, which, 95% of the time, you don't want.

The Combinator also comes preloaded with enough labeled Spider CV units to control 48 channels, though you can subtract or add even more if you like.

Let me know what you think...