Can’t find a way to group widgets

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hello,
While discovering GP, I’m trying to control several plugin parameters from the same MIDI control, and learnt from https://gigperformer.com/docs/GP4UserManual/how-to-control-multiple-parameters-with-widget.html that widget groups are an option.
Unfortunately, I can’t manage to create such a group:

  • the quick method using the option key (on Mac) described at https://gigperformer.com/docs/GP4UserManual/how-to-add-widget-to-group.html fails with an error sound;
  • such group field is also missing from the General tab (and the other tabs) of the Widget Properties inspector despite its mention at: …/docs/GP4UserManual/widget-properties-inspector.html and …/docs/GP4UserManual/widgets.html (sorry: max. 2 links for new users).
    I saw other posts regarding this feature in GP4, so I’m wondering what I’m missing.
    Thanks for your help.
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The 2 last links I couldn’t post as such were https://gigperformer.com/docs/GP4UserManual/widget-properties-inspector.html and https://gigperformer.com/docs/GP4UserManual/widgets.html

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That’s weird. Can you please post a screenshot of your General tab?

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My first thought is that you need to enlarge your GP work area. Parts of the Widget Properties areas become hidden if the GP screen area is too narrow.

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Thank you both for your fast answers.
Enlarging the GP window did reveal the Group field.
So no big deal the keyboard shortcut doesn’t work (actually, it just started to work, but randomly).
Anyway, thanks again.

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You can have more area to your widgets using this tip: Global assign field missing - #3 by npudar

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Thanks: clever idea, indeed.

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The group features even allows me to link two gain knobs such that their sum (of their natural value, not log) stays constant, which is useful to implement a wet / dry control for plugins only offering individual gains.
That’s the case of the great-sounding (free) chorus Multiply by Acon (https://acondigital.com/products/multiply/ discovered via a GP suggestion) including an impressive comb effect compensation, that I can control with these two (group-linked) curves:

(20*log(1.001-x)+48)/66 and (20*log(.001+x)+48)/66

where 66 = gain range = (18-(-48)) = 66 (from -48 to +18 dB)
and 48 = expected total gain - lowest gain = 0-(-48) (I set the total gain to 0 dB)
(the .001 is probably optional, to avoid plugging 0 into the log when x reaches its boundaries 0 and 1)

Moving the wet gain in the plugin (even w/o MIDI control) automatically moves the other gain accordingly!

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