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Utilities for ComboBox

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(@rainbro)
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It'd be nice to have some utilities for the Combobox to enhance its advantages. For example: In good 'ol VAZ Modular there are three routing modules that can help here, too. I've attached an image to show their panels which provide the following features:

Mixer 8:2
Not much to explain here. Reason for this is a better (read: more convenient) way to adjust levels and panning when using a handful of plugins inside Combobox. Way more comfortable than to open and tweak each plugin individually to achieve a balanced CB-preset.

Chaser 8-Way
This nifty module takes an input - be it audio or MIDI or a internal LFO/sequencer signal - and routes it to eight different outputs. They are selected by a modulation signal (LFO or sequencer makes sense here) or manually. Note that in the GIF the modulation starts at output #3 and goes up to #6 according to the strength of the modulation defined by the slider setting. This module offers exciting switching (signal routing) between synths and FX similar to the Wave Sequencing in Unify.

Crossfade 4-1
This module takes four inputs and spreads them across four zones defined by the user (Min to Max). By using the Crossfade Slider one can actually morph between the four sources - while they can overlap, too! Thanks to the modulation input (preferably a LFO or an Envelope) this can be automated and thus leads to interesting sounds (i.e. imagine a bass sound ---> morphing into a sax sound at decay level ---> to a saw pad during release...).

Alright, hope Boss Programmer Shane eventually finds a free place on is To-Do-List some day to make us happy with this stuff. 🙂



   
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(@getdunne)
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Excellent suggestions, thank you.

All are now on my to-do list; I found a free place, on page 31 😆 . Seriously, though, this is exactly the direction we want to go, and if I can ever get Unify 1.2.x's instabilities cleared up, this is something I'd like to do.



   
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karlfranz
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At the rate Combobox is going, soon it will qualify as a great standalone product. I can imagine Shane creating a plugin specification a la Steinberg and people developing other devices to expand ComboBox's abilities even further. 😀 



   
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(@getdunne)
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Check out Michael Fisher's fabulous Element. It can be used in Unify (or in a DAW) as a souped-up ComboBox. It's free, but Michael charges $2 per download, to offset his hosting costs.



   
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