5 Effect Rack Plug-In Bundle User Guide / Owners Manual

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SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - AUTOMATION
Effect Rack has 128 “generic” automatable parameters. When you load
a plug-in into the rack, it automatically assigns its available parameters
to any currently unassigned automation parameters. These automation
parameters are renamed on the fly to communicate exactly which
parameter (and which effect) it is connected to. Each plug-in in the
rack is given a “Slot Number” (S1, S2, etc) corresponding to its position
in the rack. Automation parameters are dynamically assigned names
according to the following convention - Slot Number: Effect Name:
Parameter Name.
For example, if you have Decapitator in the first “slot” in the rack, each
parameter of Decapitator will show up in the rack’s automation list as
depicted below in Figure 6.
AUTOMATION
Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5
Figure 6: Available automation parameters (Logic/Cubase)
While DAWs differ from each other in menu layouts, the naming
convention will always appear like this:
S1: Decapitator: Style
S1: Decapitator: Drive
(etc.)
S2: EchoBoy: Input Gain
S2: EchoBoy: Output Gain
(and so on)
Most of the time you may never need to see these parameter names
as you’ll be flying along in real-time writing automation like a boss, but
when it’s time to get to the nitty gritty and edit, now you’ll know what
you’re looking for.
Limitations:
If you re-order your plug-ins in the rack, remove or add more, the names
should update accordingly, but some DAWs handle this better than
others. We designed this with all the most popular DAWs in mind, but
if you are having trouble with your particular DAW, contact technical
support to let us know. For example: in Pro Tools, if your preferences
default to all automation parameters being enabled, you will need to
open the automation dialog and disable/re-enable all parameters to get
their names to update.
We also found that very few DAWs were able to support continuous