Hello,
As the march of technology has meant flashy little user definable buttons are now cheap to add to a project studio set-up I've gone out and bought a Stream Deck.
Set-up to send MIDI to the Studio One, the Stream Deck a great job of muting and soloing busses, and also some monitor control duties such as check the Mono Sum of the Mix and separately, using a BX Control V2 plugin the difference (or sides) of the mix.
However, 3 essential and regularly used Studio One functions are not available to assign controllers to. Those are.
- Bypass All Plugins (Channel level) - typically I do top down mixing with quite a lot of mix bus processing from the start. But about 20% of the time I am checking and perfecting EQ and transients/energies with all the stereo bus plugins bypassed. Please make that bypass plugin available for controller assignments.
- Solo Safe Channel (specifically on VCAs). I have all my FX channels assigned to a VCA. This means in one shift click I can make them all solo safe (or not solo safe) and check the mix without them, or with just a selection of them, or just one at a time. Solo safe isn't controller supported - But it would speed my production process no end if it was.
- Low Latency Mode for Instruments. - When producing electronic music, I always sound design and mix before doing the arrangement and developing parts. I have the live instrument channel follow the channel selection on the arrange page for this, due to constantly flipping between channels as I develop parts and sound. When I want to quickly record something, sadly I have to open the mixer, open the instruments tab, then hit Low Latency Mode. This is a bit of creative snag. Please make this function available as a key command or assignable for a MIDI controller and my life will be much much better. (P.s. I can't leave this on all the time as changing channels is too slow).
Thanks for listening,
Tim