Howdy.
Expand Faders. This one keeps coming up, and for a very good reason. They are extremely cool. So let's make a map! First, thanks to Jankoen and the good people at Audioease for being incredibly receptive to help improve the pagetables for Altiverb - which just happens to be the plug-in we are going to take a look at.
I noticed that the
Exp button is just slightly out of frame. So, when reaching up on the Process Module please understand that I am pressing
Exp.
We have a 5.1 track in our session. You can just as easily do this on a stereo version of the plug-in, however I thought it beneficial to show the additional controls for Front, Rear, Center and LFE levels.
We start with the 5th track on the Fader Module labeled AV currently sitting in Insert mode which includes a 6-Channel Altiverb followed by a multi-mono Sonnox Oxford EQ. We're going to press the encoder for Altiverb to get to Insert Parameters, still in a channel view. Next, press
Exp on the very top of the Process Module to Expand the Altiverb parameters to the Knob Module.
To create the map, we are going to hold down the
Attention switch (triangle) on AV track while pressing the
Exp button above. A few things should happen to indicate that you are in Expand Fader Map mode:
Exp flashes blue,
Clear (above Exp) is lit red, and the
Faders drop to - INF. Now that we are Map mode we can begin.
We are going to start by touching the bottom left encoder for Reverb Time then touching Fader 1. Next, Size to Fader 2, EQ Bass Level to Fader 3, Low Damp, Mid Damp and Hi Damp to Faders 4 - 6, Master Input Level to Fader 7 and finally, Dry/Wet Mix to Fader 8.
Press the illuminated teal fader switch to bank to the second bank of 8 faders.
Now we are going to add some secondary parameters to the second page map.
Let's start with the multichannel level parameters. Front Level to Fader 1, Rear Level to Fader 2, Center Level to Fader 3 and LFE Level to Fader 4. Let's add EQ Lo Gain to Fader 5, EQ Lo Freq to Fader 6, EQ Hi Gain to Fader 7 and EQ Hi Freq to Fader 8. Jump back to page 1. Press
Exp one final time to save the Map.
Now let's check out what we did...starting with Page 1. Reverb Time can be flipped to Reverb Length using the
Select switch (
Sel switch dropped from the associated encoder parameter), Size can be toggled to Brightness with Sel, EQ Bass Level can toggle to EQ Treble Level. Next are Low, Mid and Hi Damping - with the crossovers accessible on Low and Hi by using
Select. Master Input Level can toggle to Master Output Level, and finally Wet/Dry.
Page 2. Front, Rear, Center & LFE levels are Faders 1-4. Next, EQ Lo Gain and EQ Lo Freq - which can be toggle into Q mode with
Select. Lastly, EQ Hi Gain and HI Freq - which can be toggled into Q mode with
Select as well.
You can decide what parameters make sense to place on your faders in your mapping. You can either cross-map, like I did using
Select to jump between two like-parameters, or explicitly map the parameters - for example Input and Output Level - on dedicated top level faders. Experiment and see what works for you.
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