I know I could use a Gain block to get more level, and I have a gain block on each rackspace for overall level controlled by a knob on my controller, but I want to do this as a one time adjustment.
Ive realised that most of my synth levels in the mixer blocks are quite low. Im guessing (but might be wrong, my head is still in hardware synth mode) that I should really have a slightly hotter signal at this point in the chain. So it’s not the output level of the backspace I want to increase, but the signal right at the start.
I could go and turn them all up, but I was hoping for a quicker route.
It’s not a big deal, but I was wondering if there was a script I could run that would increase everything by a few db’s in every rackspace. Either one at a time or all at once.
No there is no such script and I’m not convinced that’s such a good idea.
For a start, what happens if some blocks are already at full level? Or if some are at a point where increasing them a bit would introduce distortion?
Pragmatically, there is the problem where every plugin block would have to have a handle on it and there would have to be mechanism in GpScript to iterate all plugins and a way to test each one to see if it was a mixer block.
While @pianopaul’s suggestion will work, you might want to consider going through your rackspaces and replace connections to audio output blocks with connections to “to global” and then in the global rackspace you could add a final stage gain block
This will for sure work, but when more than 2 audio out channels are used then it is not that easy,
or do I miss something?
This brings me to an idea: How about a “Master Gain” in the Mixer Plugins.
This way you could boost or lower all outgoing audio signals at once.
Thanks for the replies. @pianopaul . As I said, im looking to put more signal out of the mixer block, not to make the overall output louder. I already use a gain block on each rackspace, and I have a knob mapped to the master gain knob already.
Im not having volume issues as such, its just that I thought maybe, like in the analog world if you have the signal too low you get noise or, in the case of digital maybe artefacts?
@dhj .Thanks David. Again im not looking for more volume at the output stage. None of my plugins are anywhere near full volume in the mixer blocks, other than a few that I can manually manage if they clip. its just that I have set the mixer levels a bit lower than I would on an external mixer.
Maybe I dont to change anything, im not having issues as such, just though adding a bit of db increase might make things a bit better.
Yes, but this was not I was talking about.
For example 2 Channels for Keyboards and 2 Channels for Percussion.
To the FOH 4 channels are routed because the FOH Guy wants to adjust levels separately.
Now you want to adjust overall level ( if this makes sense is another point) with just 1 widget.
I just want the faders in the mixer block in each rackspace a little higher, kept in relation to all the other faders in the mixer block. That’s it.
I guess i don’t really need it so let’s not dwell on it
This nothing to do with overall output levels or what gets sent to the desk etc. noting to do with making any adjustments when playing.
Maybe I’ll just go back and manually do it when i have time. All my rackspaces have a gain block before they get sent to the Global rackspace for EQ of needed, so gain staging all the rackspaces is easy to do.
Well sort of. I know what a VCA is, but I really only want to increase things once, on my old rackspaces. Going forward I would have no need for it. It’s just to up the mixer levels on what I already have and then that’s it.
That’s why I asked about a script rather than a feature that could be used anytime.
This is what is implemented in some hardware as global parameters, which is how they should work
You can have global reverb mix or gain, and adjusting that works as an offset without modifying individual patches permanently. You just link some controls to global parameters, and these will be changed everywhere with one knob.
This is super useful stuff for scenarios when room acoustics, PA systems etc are different all the time
haha, im asking about a way to do something, that’s it. This seems to be getting lost in this thread Nothing to stop me going through 57 rackspaces and doing it manually, other than time.
The title of this thread says it all. im not looking or bothered about anything else at this stage.
Ah, I finally understood what exactly you want, I think
No, I don’t think GP Script works this way, it’s not some kind of CLI tool that crawls files with settings and changes them, it has a different purpose
