[RWP] Adjusting Parameters of Certain Plugins

[indigo]

Hi Jessica,
Not all parameters will cause a change of sound, for instance, if you 
are changing reverb type, when the parameter just above that one has 
reverb shut off, or you are changing resonance filter type, but that 
particular filter is shut off, you'll hear nothing as you change it.
When you find a parameter that displays only 1 or zero, it's an on/off 
switch.

Almost all VSTI plugs show effects wet'  or dry;at the very bottom of 
the presets list;  and I'm pretty sure that one always works.
Not all plugIns will respond to parameter changes; but many plugs do.
FM8, for instance, has 8 FM operators, each with about 10 parameters, 
and in some configurations all 8 operators can be interacting with each 
other, so you can get dramatic changes in sound, with just a single 
parameter change; but I never got FM8 to respond to program change messages.
I found its preset increment/decrement buttons on the effects routing 
page; and I arrow through presets that way.
If I like a particular preset, I use Reaper's generic save preset 
dialog, which is kind of difficult to find on the effects routing page, 
but once saved I can find that preset again, with the generic preset dialog.
A peculiar thing about Reaper's preset load and save dialog, it shows 
formats as FXB; FXP; and all.
It only works with FXB and FXP, if you try to load other formats with 
all selected, you only get an error message.
Indigo L



On 3/18/2012 3:49 PM, Jessica Brasseal wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I'm fairly new to this list, so forgive me if this has already been
> brought to the table before, but I've noticed that after adding FX to
> my track, I can get to the list of parameters using SHIFT+P, but no
> matter how much I change the parameters of some of the plugins, I
> don't hear any noticeable difference, at all. I've found this seems to
> happen to me when I use plugins that don't appear to have a list of
> presets. whether these plugins really don't have any presets, or the
> list just isn't accessible, I'm not sure. Has anyone else noticed
> this? And if so, is there any way around it? Much thanks.
>
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