Advanced Effects

Welcome to the Advanced Effects installment of the TouchMix Training Series.

If you’re familiar with effects processors and live sound mixers you’ve come to the right place.

If not, you may want to watch our FX Wizard tutorial first.

TouchMix has 4 multi-effect processing engines, which you can use for a mono delay,

stereo delay, chorus or pitch shifter.

a Dense Reverb and a Lush Reverb. These processors can be used in any combination.

On some other mixers, you have to give up auxiliary mixes to use all your effects processors.

This is not the case for TouchMix. It has four dedicated FX busses. In addition,

there is a Pitch Corrector that can be applied to any mono input channel.

The effects routing on TouchMix is what you would expect to find on a full-featured digital mixer.

There are four post-fader effects sends from every input channel

and each effect processor has returns to the mains and aux outputs. Let’s look at the processors first.

Here is the main FX screen. Most of it is occupied by the effect processor control panel.

This panel lets you store and recall presets, and choose between processors and control effect parameters.

Right now we’re looking at the Dense Reverb control panel.

If you select another type of processor, the controls and appearance will change.

Here’s the Mono Delay. Note the Tap Tempo button.

Touch it and you can set the delay tempo using the master control wheel.

Some of the control panels also include a Simple mode option.

To the right of the control panel is the Effect Return master fader.

This adjusts how much of the effect is sent to the main output.

Across the top you’ll see a row of knobs.

These let you return the effect to the auxiliaries for performers who want effects in their monitors.

The EQ tab at the top takes you to a 2-band EQ with a variable Low-Cut filter

so you can fine tune the sound of your effect. EQ settings are stored with the preset.

So that’s the processor and its returns. Now let’s look at how we can get our channels to the processor.

In addition to using the FX Wizard which we covered in a previous tutorial,

there are two ways to get your input channels to your effects.

From the input channel screen, just select the FX tab.

On the left of the screen you will see four processor icons.

If you wish to use a different processor or preset, touch the icon to go to the FX Master screen.

Press Home to come back. The four horizontal faders are your effects sends.

Bring up one or more faders for the effects you want to use on this channel.

If you’re in advanced mode, you will see two “Global FX Parameters" knobs.

These let you adjust the two most important parameters for the

selected processor without having to go to the master FX screen.

As we mentioned earlier there is one Pitch Correct processor on the mixer.

Touching the Enable button assigns it to the currently selected channel

and un-assigns it from any previously assigned channel.

Use the Blend control to vary the mix between the wet and the dry signal.

100% wet is used to correct pitch. A blend between wet and dry is used to provide a doubling effect.

And Dry bypasses Pitch Correct. Use the Key control to select a musical key signature.

Both major and minor key signatures are available,

allowing the pitch corrector effect to be more accurate in determining what the intended note is.

Use the Correct Rate control to adjust how quickly the pitch correction tracks.

You can also see the send and return levels for all your effects at once by selecting FX overview.

To use FX Overview: Menu > FX Overview.

Here you can see and control all the sends for all the channels at one place.

TouchMix has amazing effects features and capabilities, but there’s more to it than that.

The sound quality of these effects is equally impressive.

Our development team spent countless hours fine-tuning the sound of TouchMix’s processors

until these internal effects rival those of the go-to rack-mount processors that concert engineers rely on.

We really hope that this helps you get the most out of your TouchMix effects. We’ll see you next time.