At the end of each song I’d like to speak to my audience without any FX on my mic channel and no FX on my guitar as well because I check the tuning of my guitar (with a second GP instance) during the break between songs.
At this stage I am using a switch widget for EVERY plugin in the rack. All these switches (sometimes more than 10) are then grouped and switched simultaneously with one midi command.
Is there a more elegant way to bypass all FX plugins in a rack (or globally) than with a lot of switch widgets for every rack? Like with Live Pedalboard or Native-Instrument’s Guitar Rig, the whole rack can be bypassed with one switch.
Those are all good options. Here is another one. If you have all your FX in the global rackspace and you have a separate DRY and WET signal (which is the best for clarity in my opinion), you could just solo your dry signal.
I have, at the end of each song, a variation with all plugins bypassed so that as I move from one song to the next I have to pass through that bypass variation. I’ve done this so as to save resources as we have a repertoire with about 50 songs; some have very intense plug-in usage.
Maybe I’m playing the fool with this approach and my query is:
When you change to a completely new song, does GP automatically bypass other song’s plugins/instruments? Or do they all stay in the ram unless you manually bypass them as I do with that bypass variation?
GP will bypass all the plugins in the previous song, which will save CPU. But in terms of RAM, if you don’t use predictive loading, then all plugins stay in memory.