Advanced Effects

Video Transcript

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Welcome to the Advanced Effects installment of the TouchMix Training Series.
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If you’re familiar with effects processors and live sound mixers you’ve come to the right place.
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If not, you may want to watch our FX Wizard tutorial first.
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TouchMix has 4 multi-effect processing engines, which you can use for a mono delay,
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stereo delay, chorus or pitch shifter.
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a Dense Reverb and a Lush Reverb. These processors can be used in any combination.
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On some other mixers, you have to give up auxiliary mixes to use all your effects processors.
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This is not the case for TouchMix. It has four dedicated FX busses. In addition,
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there is a Pitch Corrector that can be applied to any mono input channel.
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The effects routing on TouchMix is what you would expect to find on a full-featured digital mixer.
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There are four post-fader effects sends from every input channel
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and each effect processor has returns to the mains and aux outputs. Let’s look at the processors first.
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Here is the main FX screen. Most of it is occupied by the effect processor control panel.
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This panel lets you store and recall presets, and choose between processors and control effect parameters.
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Right now we’re looking at the Dense Reverb control panel.
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If you select another type of processor, the controls and appearance will change.
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Here’s the Mono Delay. Note the Tap Tempo button.
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Touch it and you can set the delay tempo using the master control wheel.
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Some of the control panels also include a Simple mode option.
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To the right of the control panel is the Effect Return master fader.
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This adjusts how much of the effect is sent to the main output.
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Across the top you’ll see a row of knobs.
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These let you return the effect to the auxiliaries for performers who want effects in their monitors.
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The EQ tab at the top takes you to a 2-band EQ with a variable Low-Cut filter
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so you can fine tune the sound of your effect. EQ settings are stored with the preset.
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So that’s the processor and its returns. Now let’s look at how we can get our channels to the processor.
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In addition to using the FX Wizard which we covered in a previous tutorial,
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there are two ways to get your input channels to your effects.
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From the input channel screen, just select the FX tab.
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On the left of the screen you will see four processor icons.
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If you wish to use a different processor or preset, touch the icon to go to the FX Master screen.
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Press Home to come back. The four horizontal faders are your effects sends.
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Bring up one or more faders for the effects you want to use on this channel.
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If you’re in advanced mode, you will see two “Global FX Parameters" knobs.
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These let you adjust the two most important parameters for the
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selected processor without having to go to the master FX screen.
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As we mentioned earlier there is one Pitch Correct processor on the mixer.
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Touching the Enable button assigns it to the currently selected channel
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and un-assigns it from any previously assigned channel.
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Use the Blend control to vary the mix between the wet and the dry signal.
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100% wet is used to correct pitch. A blend between wet and dry is used to provide a doubling effect.
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And Dry bypasses Pitch Correct. Use the Key control to select a musical key signature.
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Both major and minor key signatures are available,
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allowing the pitch corrector effect to be more accurate in determining what the intended note is.
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Use the Correct Rate control to adjust how quickly the pitch correction tracks.
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You can also see the send and return levels for all your effects at once by selecting FX overview.
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To use FX Overview: Menu > FX Overview.
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Here you can see and control all the sends for all the channels at one place.
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TouchMix has amazing effects features and capabilities, but there’s more to it than that.
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The sound quality of these effects is equally impressive.
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Our development team spent countless hours fine-tuning the sound of TouchMix’s processors
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until these internal effects rival those of the go-to rack-mount processors that concert engineers rely on.
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We really hope that this helps you get the most out of your TouchMix effects. We’ll see you next time.