Different Effects for Different Tracks

Hello, I asked this question before but wanted to dedicate a thread to it, since it is very important for me.

My question is this:

Is it possible in any way, like, through p-locking or something, to have different delays on the different tracks?

Say I want to have a certain delay on my hi-hats on Trk 2, and another kind of delay on my toms on Trk 3.

Or can I just have one type of delay on all the tracks, the only difference being the amount of that same delay I apply?

(I wonder the same about the chorus and the reverb of course, but for simplicity’s sake I focus on the delay in this post.)

So is it possible, or do I have to wait for Overbridge to apply VST effects on each track?

Thank you kindly for reading!

if those echoes didn’t overlap (ie if you had low feedback) you could easily plock different delays at ‘different times’ of the track - but not at the same time, so it doesn’t work as you wish, but you can do small wonders with creative plocking so try to stretch it yourself

Okay, thank you! So just to make sure:

You can’t hold down a trig, go to the FX-track and change some delay-settings there, resulting in a p-lock for only that trig having a different effect configuration compared to the delay configuration in the other tracks?

I tried to do this yesterday and it seemed that it didn’t work, but I just want to make sure that I didn’t do something wrong.

Does not work

Okay, thanks!

But doesn’t this bother anyone here? Isn’t it extremely important to be able to have different delay and reverb effects for each track? Like, a delay or a reverb which works great for one sound may sound terrible together with another. :confused:

Dawid, you can do that with the mono machine delay. The MnM has one delay per each track. The A4 effects routing is send based, which makes a lot of sense to me as it keeps things cohesive.

Now, if you think about it, you can create pseudo delays with faster scaling of a track and micro timing shifts.

Now, if you want different delay/reverbs, you will have to create different patterns/kits.

that’s why the A4 Keys offers individual outputs for all 4 voices- a major reason why I opted for the Keys over the regular A4.

No. The box does what is promised and it’s a reasonable decision to use a mixer with send effects instead of adding per-track effects on an analogue machine like this.

Depends. Having unlimited insert effects is something that only became available to producers without an unlimited budget over the last decade while everybody moved to DAWs. Before that, the setup you get inside the A4 is actually more-of-less what a lot of people worked with.

If you want per-track effects, then get an AK with an external mixer and a ton of effect units, or wait for Overbridge and use your DAW for per-track effect stacks.

No. The box does what is promised and it’s a reasonable decision to use a mixer with send effects instead of adding per-track effects on an analogue machine like this.

Depends. Having unlimited insert effects is something that only became available to producers without an unlimited budget over the last decade while everybody moved to DAWs. Before that, the setup you get inside the A4 is actually more-of-less what a lot of people worked with.

If you want per-track effects, then get an AK with an external mixer and a ton of effect units, or wait for Overbridge and use your DAW for per-track effect stacks.[/quote]
Yup, I personally like my own mixes in a DAW to use sends for most basic effects to keep things cohesive. Of course you lose some versatility but it works for me for most cases.