Virtual Instrument Track in VCA Group retains "invisible" volume value
Posted: Sat Sep 30, 2023 6:27 pm
This is weird and very frustrating. Experimenting a lot with using VCA Groups in some of my projects. It’s convenient to group similar tracks together this way when using my S3 control surface.
So I have a project made up of several MIDI tracks and a Virtual instrument track with Stylus RMX on it. I can move the fader of the Stylus track up to -5 for example and then save the project. I can the close and reopen the project and that track drops down to some value that it for some reason beyond me, thinks it should be set to. Automation is off. There are no MIDI or audio volume events in that track or any of the MIDI tracks targeting it. Yet it doesn’t retain where it was last set and drops down to this lower, incorrect setting every time I reopen the project.
Moving it OUT of the track group ends this behavior. I don’t really get it though. I thought that with a VCA group, moving one individual fader in the group changes the volume of that particular track in relationship to the others, then when you move the VCA fader they all change maintaining the same relationship. Perhaps I have to temporarily ungroup them, but I didn’t think that necessary with a VCA Group? I guess maybe there some modifier key I have to hold down when I change an individual fader that’s part of a VCA group? Seems counter intuitive as if I move the fader for just Stylus RMX, the faders that belong to the MIDI tracks that are also part of that group do not move.
Seems odd to me.
So I have a project made up of several MIDI tracks and a Virtual instrument track with Stylus RMX on it. I can move the fader of the Stylus track up to -5 for example and then save the project. I can the close and reopen the project and that track drops down to some value that it for some reason beyond me, thinks it should be set to. Automation is off. There are no MIDI or audio volume events in that track or any of the MIDI tracks targeting it. Yet it doesn’t retain where it was last set and drops down to this lower, incorrect setting every time I reopen the project.
Moving it OUT of the track group ends this behavior. I don’t really get it though. I thought that with a VCA group, moving one individual fader in the group changes the volume of that particular track in relationship to the others, then when you move the VCA fader they all change maintaining the same relationship. Perhaps I have to temporarily ungroup them, but I didn’t think that necessary with a VCA Group? I guess maybe there some modifier key I have to hold down when I change an individual fader that’s part of a VCA group? Seems counter intuitive as if I move the fader for just Stylus RMX, the faders that belong to the MIDI tracks that are also part of that group do not move.
Seems odd to me.
). Quite frankly I got it working correctly for the project I was working on and haven't used it since. I thought at one point I declared it fixed, can't remember. Read though the posts.