Hi,
Playbeat 4 user here. For the life of me I can’t get the mixer to behave. I tried lowering the volume of the kick drum to around 78%, but the problem is I had the daw playhead before the start of the midi trigger notes (I am using a midi sequence that I have written to my DAW).
So I moved the playhead of my daw to within where the first midi note trigger is, but now I want to reset the mixer in playbeat 4 and start again, but the mixer reset, whilst it resets it initially, as soon as the midi sequence starts, the kick drum goes back to 78% volume.
So how do you get the mixer to do what you want it to do? Like I said, changes initially weren’t being written, but now, I cannot reset the mixer at all. Playbeat 4 mixer seemingly has a mind of its own.
Thanks.
Hi, Currently, mixer settings are saved with the preset and/or remix keys, allowing each variation to have its own unique mixer settings. This was intentional by design. Would you prefer the mixer to have global values instead?
Hi @Audiomodern,
thanks for the reply. I am not sure about global settings, although if that is easy to implement, maybe have some link button to enable global mixer control as a user-enabled option. I don’t want to interfere with what is already set up. I do suppose that a per variation mixer settting makes sense, although for me I generally want the drums to be consistent.
Maybe, if it is possible to do, some button that can turn on global mixer settings as an option? That would be good.
Although I am not sure if that is the only issue. For me, I had recorded a midi track that switched between 1 of 2 remix parts, but for whatever reason, unless the daw playback control was over the actual midi note, the mixer settings didn’t stick, and then when I was trying to reset the mixer (in particular I had lowered the kick drum to 70-75%) the mixer would reset sometimes and not other times.
If the mixer does correspond to midi sequence parts, how do we know which mixer we are changing? It didn’t seem to be clear at all to me that the mixer was anything but global.
Thanks for any help.
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+1 for a Global Mixer option
This was created to be able to achieve different mix settings for each variation, if needed. However, we will explore the possibility of adding a new mode that saves these settings globally rather than with the preset, without affecting the previous mode.
Cool.
Just to be clear, I personally would like a global mixer option that fixes or allows mixer settings to persist across remixes, not especially across presets. I don’t need or expect mixer settings to be static if I open a new preset, as far as I am aware, the mixer is in some sort of default setting when opening a new preset, which is fine.
Where I am getting messed up is that when I try and change say a kick drum volume, it only changes that kick drum volume for the remix that I am on (although which one I might be on is not always clear to me still).
So I think it would be useful to be able to say have a mix setup that is global or static across all remixes, not necessarily across presets, as presets usually have different samples (is that right?) so a mix setup done on one preset will not necessarily be relevant on another preset, but it would be useful for crafting songs with remixes for different parts (verse, chorus, fills etc) as in that case a consistent drum mix makes more sense.
Thanks.
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I think the best method here is Copy and Paste (C & P) for everything and also the Mixer.
For example : In the Drum Sequencer Midi device in Reason Studios I can C & P a sequencer lane in Pattern 1 (1-8) then go to Pattern 2 and C & P to any of the 8 sequencer lanes. So ideally I could go to another Remix Key (pattern) in PB4 and paste all data to any of the lanes.
Could the same be done with the mixer settings per Remix Key and separately to the sequencer lane C & P data?
At the moment we can only copy to another sequencer lane within the same Remix Key, no?