What is the problem?
Effect and Mixer Parameters are not available in Macros and Modulation targets.
What should this feature achieve?
Modulating effect and mixer parameters offers a lot of exciting possibilities for sound design, because the Synth would be more like a modular:
- panning effects
- envelope-following for effects (because effect parameters would, hear me out, follow the actual envelope that controls the synthesizer’s sound), like more reverb or faster modulation as the filter opens
- having macros that move sounds further into a reverb space
- modulating LFO rates
- ducking reverb and delay
Obviously also nice for Macros (including Velocity and AT).
How to deal with polyphony: Since synths are often use polyphonically, there are be cases where there is more than one source for a modulation. Envelopes and velocity are polyphonic, LFOs can be, too. So it is important to define which envelope (or LFO) takes precedence. A new menu entry in Scene might make this selectable between [first note] and [last note], but without configuration [last note played] is a good default for most cases. This is obviously not a problem for Macros, because there only ever is one encoder per macro.
Are there any workarounds?
No
Any links to related discussions?
Any references to other products?
Pigtronix Cosmos is a modulated reverb, if this wish were implemented, that kind of sound would be achievable on the synth.
