Bit stuck...I just got a Boss EV-1-WL...nice and easy to configure...been controlling plugins standalone and within the DAW.
It's great when the plugin has a wah or whammy emulation but what I don't have is a nice simple volume pedal in software form.
Workaround at this point is to insert a Mixtool utility on the input:
- Mixtool gain is -24dB to +24dB so you have to set heel down value to 0 and toe down value to 63
- For some reason a value of 63 doesn't quite bring you back to 0dB (something like -0.19...bit annoying but liveable)
- Heel down at -24dB isn't enough for absolute silence...meh
I'm using a Neural DSP plugin and I can't think of a solution within the plugin (could control input gain but it's not always set to 0dB).
Anyone got a better idea?
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Typically, I'd have the volume pedal immediately after the guitar (so, as a last resort, I could bung a physical one in-line before I hit the interface...I just wanted to achieve it with my new expression pedal in virtual terms). The EV-1-WL controls a range on CC#1 when activated (so there's your wah pedal position) and a range on CC#11 when deactivated (which is begging to control volume...like on a Boss GT-8).
If Mixtool dropped to -infinity, I'd be sorted.
This is the current setup:
- Realised that I needed to be targeting a fader to get -infinity...the range up to 0dB requires MIDI values of 0 to 97
- Studio One channel inserts are currently pre-fader only so I put the Neural DSP plugin on an FX Send
- Recorded a track with my expression pedal controlling the channel fader
- Bounced track to print the fader automation
- Discarded original recording and automation (optional)
- Moved plugin to process the bounced track
;-/