If you haven’t looked at these modules since early releases, version 1.0.5 might deserve a second look. It made me smile because that was just one reason they were made. Today I watched a YouTube of someone placing the Modular Bus Mixers next to their sound sources and doing live mixing with them. The focus was on making them easier and more flexible, making them more polished for live use, and giving tools to make your mixes shine (like quick auditioning of send effects). The last version had the most bling (the Night Ride theme), but this version is the one that I’m most excited about. When they’re in the library, I’ll post a release release announcement with more details. Thank you, rsmus7 (Stephan) for making sure they aren’t going to blow up on Windows! The next release of the Modular Bus Mixers just completed beta testing. Let me know if this makes sense or if I can answer any other questions. ![]() It might be a bit more time before I can add another spread mode to Metro City Bus Mixer. I’ve also been saying that the night theme will be out by Halloween. I want to get all this work done quickly so people can do more fun powerful routing with large patches. I’m working on a few more foundational pieces right now, making it easy to create mix groups with their own auto faders, mix groups that can still use a single master reverb send. I love the idea of the round robin mode and can see where that would also sound nice. So there’s just the two modes right now, but they give you two very different options for different situations and I’ve been enjoying both. Pan follow creates everything from a typical swirling auto pan with some additional spread to an unpredictable, and quite beautiful, stereo space magically filled with all your moving polyphonic voices. You can have sixteen channels slowly following each other for up to 16 seconds. The spread knob increases the amount of time that each channel is spaced behind each other, up to one second per channel. The pan knob controls the center of the auto pan. The pan CV attenuator knob controls the auto panning distance back and forth, the amount of spread. Connect a slow, bidirectional LFO with something like a sine (-5 to +5) to the pan CV. Pan follow is less real world (less like bringing two mics to a piano) and more dynamic, more magical. This might be more what you’re looking for. (Although I do like the round robin, left to right, and will come back to talking about that.) This spread mode is musical and predictable (few surprises in your mix). I hope the lights help to make it more clear. It sounds like everyone has this figured out with some experimentation. You then use the spread knob to spread out the other channels to the left or to the right. ![]() The first polyphonic channel is placed in the stereo field with the pan knob. It’s kind of like bringing two mics to a piano. And it gives you a lot of control over the stereo mix. Thanks for trying out the Metro City Bus! Here’s the current design:
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