Once you've created a sound with MASSIVE,
you can use what are called macros to control
multiple parts of the synth and automate them over time.
I'm going to demonstrate using one macro to control multiple parts of the synth,
but you can use up to eight of them with MASSIVE.
Your macros are right here on MASSIVE,
and you can program up to eight of them to control different parts of the synth.
This is a bell sound that I'm using right now,
and what I want is for the sound to grow more over time,
almost like a transition sound like we talked about before.
Let me play back the sound just as it is,
and then we'll talk about different ways that we can help it grow.
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For a sound like this,
that's really plucky and short,
if I want to create some tension and have it grow,
I can adjust both the decay and the release on the amp mod,
and I can open up the cutoff,
and add reverb at the same time.
This is going to give the sound life and help it grow.
In order to do this, I'm going to use a macro.
I decided to use just my first macro,
and you can assign this exactly the same way as we did with the envelopes and the LFOs.
I'm going to click, drag,
and drop on the release of the sound and the decay,
so that I can control how long the sound resonates.
In addition, I'm going to use the same macro to control how much reverb is on this sound,
and to open up the filter.
Just like we did with envelopes and LFOs,
you want to create a range for each one of these parameters,
so you know how far you want the macro to go.
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So, now I have this one macro controlling four different parameters,
I have decay, release, cutoff,
and the wet dry of the reverb,
all controlled on one fader.
To make this even more useful,
you can actually MIDI learn each of these macros to something on your MIDI controller.
When I turn up this macro,
it will turn up each of these parameters based on the ranges I set,
so this is how it sounds.
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If I play this back with the sounds that we have recorded already,
and I turn up the macro,
I can also record the MIDI data that's associated with the macro.
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If I choose to record it,
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One other useful part about macros is that you can name them.
So, if I give this macro a name like LONG FX.
If I close MASSIVE and open my automation,
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If I search for what I named it,
I'll be able to find it in writing them with automation.
So, I'm looking for LONG FX,
and now using automation I can draw in the changes that I did.
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You can do what I did,
which is control multiple different parts of the synth with
one macro or you can set multiple macros.
Whenever you open up any presets within MASSIVE,
you'll see that anytime that there is yellow,
it's a macro control,
blue is an envelope,
and green is an LFO.
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