{"id":6101,"date":"2012-02-09T11:00:53","date_gmt":"2012-02-09T15:00:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/?p=6101"},"modified":"2012-02-09T11:00:53","modified_gmt":"2012-02-09T15:00:53","slug":"enter-the-mod-matrix-with-sonar-x1d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2012\/02\/09\/enter-the-mod-matrix-with-sonar-x1d\/","title":{"rendered":"Enter the Mod Matrix With SONAR X1d"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>By now you may have heard about the upcoming <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/X1-Producer\/feature.aspx\/SONAR-X1d-coming-February-2012\" target=\"_blank\">X1d<\/a> update which will be free for all registered <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/\" target=\"_blank\">SONAR X1<\/a> customers.\u00a0And you may have also seen the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Press\/release.aspx\/Cakewalk-Announces-SONAR-X1d-update\" target=\"_blank\">press release<\/a> which lists all of the features and enhancements contained in the free update.<\/p>\n<p>However, what you might <em>not <\/em>have seen is just how insanely cool the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/X1-Producer\/Expanded\/default.aspx\/SONAR-X1-FX-Chains-Expanded\" target=\"_blank\">FX Chains 2.0&#8217;s<\/a> new Mod Matrix is. OK, since its really just a couple of menus it may not <em>look<\/em> cool, but what it <em>does<\/em> is absolutely <em>awesome<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FX-Chains-2.0-Mod-Matrix-Inversely-Controlling-Compressors-Threshold-and-Makeup-Gain.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6129\" title=\"FX Chains 2.0 Mod Matrix Inversely Controlling Compressor's Threshold and Makeup Gain\" src=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FX-Chains-2.0-Mod-Matrix-Inversely-Controlling-Compressors-Threshold-and-Makeup-Gain.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"491\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/02\/FX-Chains-2.0-Mod-Matrix-Inversely-Controlling-Compressors-Threshold-and-Makeup-Gain.png\"><\/a><strong style=\"text-align: left;\">Mod Matrix Inversely Controlling Compressor&#8217;s Threshold and Makeup Gain<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In case you&#8217;re not familiar with FX Chains 2.0, its a feature that&#8217;s exclusive to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/X1-Producer\/Expanded\/\" target=\"_blank\">SONAR X1 Producer Expanded<\/a> which allows you to create\u00a0combinations\u00a0of multiple effects and take control of parameters from those effects from a custom, skinable interface.<\/p>\n<p><embed type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/CwzY0fesOOQ?rel=0?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>FX Chains 2.0 before the Mod Matrix<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Before FX Chains 2.0 entered the Mod Matrix only a single parameter of an effect could be mapped to a control of an FX Chain. With the red pill firmly in stomach, up to four effect parameters can now be mapped within the Mod Matrix to a single FX Chain control.<\/p>\n<p>Sound confusing? Don&#8217;t worry, its really not.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a handy feature called Touch Learn, effect parameters are automatically mapped to FX Chain Controls simply by moving them.\u00a0And there&#8217;s even a menu option that lets you set Start and End values for mapped controls based on their current setting within the effect.<\/p>\n<p>For example, and as shown in the picture at the top of the post, you can have a single knob of an FX Chain turn <em>down <\/em>the\u00a0Threshold\u00a0of a\u00a0Compressor\u00a0while it turns <em>up<\/em> the Compressor&#8217;s Makeup Gain, all within unique, specified ranges for each of the Compressor&#8217;s mapped controls.<\/p>\n<p>And that&#8217;s just the tip of the iceberg.<\/p>\n<p>Around X1d&#8217;s release we&#8217;ll have in depth\u00a0web pages\u00a0and videos which explain it all through, text, pictures, and sound examples.<\/p>\n<p>Not using SONAR X1 Producer Expanded? <a href=\"http:\/\/www.store.cakewalk.com\/b2cus\/ProductInfo.aspx?productid=10-CXXP1.00-20E\" target=\"_blank\">Upgrade to Expanded<\/a>, take advantage of our <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Products\/SONAR\/X1-Producer\/feature.aspx\/SONAR-X1-Producer-Crossgrade\" target=\"_blank\">limited time Crossgrade<\/a>, or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cakewalk.com\/Dealers\/finder.aspx\" target=\"_blank\">find a dealer<\/a> near you to become a new user!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By now you may have heard about the upcoming X1d update which will be free for all registered SONAR X1 customers.\u00a0And you may have also seen the press release which lists all of the features and enhancements contained in the free update. However, what you might not have seen is just how insanely cool the &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/2012\/02\/09\/enter-the-mod-matrix-with-sonar-x1d\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Enter the Mod Matrix With SONAR X1d&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[91,288,49,78,1],"tags":[1550,12,1551,1552,1553,1554,1555,1556,35,1440],"class_list":["post-6101","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-caketv","category-namm","category-sonar","category-tips","category-uncategorized","tag-audio-effects","tag-cakewalk","tag-fx-chains","tag-make-music","tag-mix-music","tag-mod-matrix","tag-music-creation","tag-pc-recording","tag-sonar","tag-sonar-x1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/noelborthwick.com\/cakewalk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}