Adding Morphing between Layers (control morph by macro button, or lfo)

@papopap

Unfortunately, what you are suggesting can only work for mono sounds. For polyphonic sounds, the various voices of polyphony reside within each plug-in, so Unify itself cannot adjust the volume of voices individually.

Unify is a plug-in host, and there are limits to what a host can do; this is one of them.

As I understand, it's about processing an audio signal (output level of each layers) - not a MIDI data. A sort of DJ style 2 x stereo audio channel crossfader (extended to max 24 stereo channels in Unify). BTW. Can this type of audio morphing (crossfading) be achieved by linking multiple parameters (layers output levels) to macro knobs and then by adjusting/reversing the control curves of each parameter?  

@robert-p

The problem is that when you play more than one note at a time, all the notes come out of the instrument plug-ins already mixed, so Unify can't adjust their volumes individually. The only way around this is to use PolyBox so each layer can only play one note, but this is very wasteful of resources.

EDIT: Our layer sequencing isn't done on a per-voice basis already, so what you're suggesting is possible. I will think about it for future updates; thank you.

@getdunne  .. heelo, something like this new function of pianoteq 7.. is not possible ?

https://youtu.be/k2oZlMueJCM

@papopap

That's a wonderful addition they made in Pianoteq 7, but it's another function (like per-voice crossfading) which only makes sense within an instrument plug-in.

However, this does give me some ideas about how we might improve Unify's layer sequencing in the future. Thank you.

I see, so it would be like playing all layers unison and having some of them inaudible

@robert-p yes that's exactly that .. the idea is to have the smoothest transition between the layers something that goes through the layers and is done using a macro as explained in my 1st post. just like the pianoteq 7 demo does

@papopap

The attached screenshot shows how to create a crossfader (morpher) assigned to the macro knob 1 (One control curve is inverted). This example works for two layers. 

thanks for the tip.. but it's not quite what I'm looking for. indeed the volume is not constant especially when the lines overlap in the middle. we should be able to make sure that the sound is always at 0db whatever the value of the macro is...

@papopap

This can be done by adjusting control curve Min/Max points (ie. Max = 0dB) and the shape of the curve (logarithmic arc - not a slopped line)