Totally confused concerning racks and rack states (C3)

[Corky]

Rick

There are also many user discussions and explanations in the search engine in this forum. Here are a few:

Managing Rack States

My rack states are broken into two groups - at the top I have “generic” rack state names, like “Warm strings pad” or whatever, and these I give a single program number, like 1 or 14 or whatever. Then after all my generic patches I have a “separator” rack state, named “=========”. Then after that I have song-specific rack states, named just after the song, all with bank 1, so for example 1.1 or 1.14 etc. This keeps them nicely separated. For some racks where I have lots of different categorie…

Managing Rack States

I don’t think I’m the ultimate authority here - guess everybody will use Cantabile their own way. But personally, I tend to mix just like you do: I have a number of generic patches like “Soul Organ” or “Blues Organ” that I use in a number of songs (my “Soul Organ” patch sounds great when layered with a piano and controlled via expression pedal). And of course, I only change these very carefully, since a change will affect all songs that incorporate them. Whenever I have the urge to edit one of…

Totally confused concerning racks and rack states (C3)

Double-click it … really, it was that easy??? Can’t wait to jump in there a little later this evening! At last - the secret entrance is revealed! (Tried right-clicking everywhere - never tried double-clicking anything!) Thanks, Dave! I’ll get back with any findings or new questions, but I think I’m “in” now. Terry

Totally confused concerning racks and rack states (C3)

Hey Terry, no need to duplicate Dave’s pointers on how to edit racks and how to create rack states. Just on the “useful scenarios for using rack states”: it helps if you think of racks as preset-based 19’’ expanders in your setup: you create rack states as you would create presets on your hardware synths. For any song, you just select the synths you want to use (i.e. racks) and connect them to your keyboard using routes and mix the levels of your selected synths using individual rack levels. I…

Totally confused concerning racks and rack states (C3)

Just one more pointer - in case it isn’t obvious: a rack doesn’t need to consist on one plugin only. My piano rack, for example, consists of two main plugins (Pianoteq and Addictive Keys), plus a number of refinement plugins (EQs, chorus, compressor, and a main volume plugin). For any given rack state, only one of the main plugins is active, and a selected set of refinement plugins. Only the volume plugin is always on, wired to a MIDI assignment (CC #7). Another hint: racks don’t need to have j…

Some from this thread as well.

Regards

Corky