Is it possible to conditional lock the parameters of the mixer? Specifically, I want to use conditional locks to set the output volume of FX like reverb and delay to 0 on specific steps. For example, when I have a moment in the song where everything hard cuts to silence for a few beats, I don’t want reverb/delay heard momentarily. Possible?
Thanks in advance!
Hi. No, that won’t work.
Might it work with MIDI loop back?
The effects don’t work like that unfortunately. I believe you’d have to resample the phrase with the effects baked in then play it dry on a slice grid and mute the audio to get that effect. You can certainly P lock more effects to a step, but I don’t believe you can drastically remove all effects for just a moment like this person is asking about.
I just don’t think you can force it to go fully dry with a P lock.
@LyingDalai help me out here, am I correct about this? I’m pretty sure I tried this exact thing unsuccessfully.
To cut fx you could swap to a new pattern
Remember - patterns don’t have to be 16 steps long , they can be 4 or whatever length of ‘fx less’ time you want
You just need to setup relevant patterns .
You can also get nice odd effects … try changing delay time on short patterns , the delay will spiral in weird ways when it changes between values
Even if you switch to a new pattern you won’t get complete silence because delay, for example, will finish decaying won’t it? They want full stop, like audio mute stop.
I would give MIDI loopback a try, or before this, external midi control.
Or resample.
Double tap stop, pauze, and play again? You’ll have to practise the timing though. Doesn’t work in all scenarios, but maybe it does for you.
turn down the master output potentially?
Isn’t there a delay volume ? ( I’ll have to check later )
Or change feedback to zero while changing delay time to 0 too
Or reduce filters to very low freq
I’m sure I’ve done this years ago on dt1
Plus parameter locks on step 1 to kill any delay / fx sends on each track
Yeah, even if you p-lock the delay/reverb send to zero at that moment, they are still ringing out from whatever was being sent prior. That’s why I was hoping there was a way to sequence the FX volume temporarily
Ya, this seems to be the only way to kill the FX momentarily, but prone to user error 
Resampling would work, but with a track that has a lot of these types of silence hard stops is a pretty rough workflow 
Lowering Delay Feedback to 0 or Delay Volume should also work.
To plock one of these, you would have to either use another machine, or use a DTII MIDI track and a MIDI cable OUT to IN (aka MIDI feedback loop).
Thanks for the info! Yeah, multiple machines involved so looks like another can automate the FX mix volume. Nice! Will give that a go. 