Select layer by Midi CC

For this new Polybox feature was invented. You can use knob to switch layer via Polybox in Knob mode, it will switch channels, and you assign layers to separate channels and Polybox as midi input.

@ro-mix thank you I will give this a look. As I would like to use an articulation manager midi CC would still be useful. The downside to using channels is you would be limited to 16 layers. Some articulation managers can send channel and CC in combination giving a much higher number of potential layers.

@markrs
You can put several Polyboxes assigned to different midi channels, and use third Polybox to switch between them 🙂

Posted by: @ro-mix

@markrs
You can put several Polyboxes assigned to different midi channels, and use third Polybox to switch between them 🙂

Sounds a bit awkward to use over midi CC layer selection, but I appreciate that there is an option that can be used.

Whilst I imagine this would be way down on the feature priority list, I think midi CC / keyswitch selection of layers would be a good addition to Unify

@markrs

Can you say more about your usage scenario, where you'd need more than 16 layers? Since each layer has plug-in instances, that's a lot of plug-ins.

@getdunne it depends on how you group things. For example BBCSO I think has 20 articulations for violins, so you would use 1 articulation per Unify track/channel, you would need 20 channels. You would then look to utilise the nesting abilities of Unify to blend some of those articulations with other sample libraries. For me this is a massive achievement of unify as I can the use track pre-delays to sync them up, so when you play them into to a DAW they will all be in time. You can also use Aux within unify with reverbs etc but only for certain types of articulation such as shorts. Again this is something that can't currently be done in any DAW.

At the moment we have articulation manager(e.g. Cubase articulation maps) but you can't use pre-delay on each articulation nor can you blend articulations with other sample libraries. For this reason many still use a track in a DAW per articulation, which creates templates with 1000s of tracks in them.

As Unify can be used in any DAW, it would give this power to composers/producers irrespective of the DAW they use.  Hopefully this helps show the power Unify could give to managing sample libraries and that most of that power is already been built.

Just to say Shane, I massively appreciate your work on Unify and that you have a massive list of features to build. It just feels like this "might" be a quick win that opens up huge potential.

@markrs

Thank you for the detailed explanation! That's just what I needed.

The reason I changed DAW to Fl studio was much because of this. ( And also I had some time due to lockdown, it's quite different from Cubase my old DAW). But very clever programmer has made a free tool called BRSO articulate.  This unify 😎 keyswitch to the midi notes with the collorpicker tool in Fl studio's piano roll so a color is assigned too stacatto etc. Thus no need another piano roll lane with keyswitches.

But the real power is when need to edit. Just select the notes, and there is a lot of tools too help you in the as in all piano roll's in the major DAW, and the change color in color picker, voila al marked stacatto notes change to f.ex sustain.

You see a lot of classical or orchestral composers using Fl exactly also because of this.