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4. MIDI control

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Though it’s a simple plugin, Flux Mini 2 CM has a decent MIDI system that lets you control the plugin in a few ways. As ever, with MIDI control you need to check your DAW for connection instructions. We’ve loaded Flux Mini 2 CM as a Logic

Pro MIDI-controlled instrument, routing audio accordingly.

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What this setup allows us to do is use MIDI to override the repetitive fakechain style effect. Here we’re sticking with our previous curve settings, but we’re using MIDI to trigger the curve. We’ve set MIDI to Retrigger.

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This means the curve starts at playback but any MIDI notes received will also restart the curve playback. Here we’ve programmed up a MIDI pattern to control the curve and this achieves a more complex pattern than we could using regular playback triggering.

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Now try the One Shot option. Here we’ve modified the preset Texxtuure to create a quite long evolving filtering effect over four bars. By using the One Shot option we can now control when the curve will start to playback.

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Rather than run the curve from the beginning of the part, or create a repetitive part it’s now possible to do something much more specific. Here you can see from the MIDI part that the curve only starts on bar 7 and we’ve then used the MIDI to retrigger it to create a rhythmic filter effect at the end.

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The One Shot MIDI option is also great for creating short rhythmic effects. Here we’ve modified the Gentle Vocal Chop preset, adding some band-pass filter with high resonance. We’ve then played a MIDI pattern on the fly, creating a squelchy rhythmic effect from a straightforward pad sound.