I have some songs where I use a different rackspace with different wiring in order to change how certain sounds are controlled. I sometimes do it by adding or removing some widget groups instead, but I don’t think I can exactly make a widget ignorable in that way either.
For instance, normally, expression pedal B controls both the clean and rhythm volume at the same time, but other times I want a controller to have the rhythm sound at full volume on one end and the clean at full volume on the other so I sweep between them. I wonder if I could turn on and off those wires instead of adding new rackspaces.
Alternatively, if I could assign a few different widgets to the same parameter and turn on and off those widgets’ response that could work as well.
I’m really trying to see if I can minimize the number of rackspaces I’m loading, or move everything I can to the global rackspace
Widgets map to parameters of plugin blocks, not the connections between the blocks.
There are many ways to be creative with assigning widgets to parameters of blocks that have parameters which can route or block signals though.
One thing that comes to mind is changing the output channels of a mixer via widgets. This changes the signal path from that point on and you can route it somewhere else. Not sure if that’s enough for you though ….
I think I generally handle this sort of thing by duplicating the plugin that has the different parameters setting and creating one variation where one instance is bypassed and another where the other is bypassed. You would use a widget to control which is bypassed. (You could also save the widget setting in a variation to a songpart instead of creating a new variation).
For volume changes, I pretty much always use Joey’s Awaken 6 channel template and use a widget to control the mixer volume. I usually save those changes to a song part using the “snapshot “ (capture variations) tool.
You can also use widgets to change settings within a plugin (I think, if they are exposed to GP). I am not sure I understand “different widgets to the same parameter”, but I think you are working on stuff stuff that is a bit beyond me.
I’m thinking this may be the way to go for the most part. I do have some songs where this may not work, but I think I can burn that bridge when I come to it.
