For busking I thought it would be nice to be able to have deferred effect activation, so dynamically putting a channel selection in some effect, but not having that effect activate yet. But instead the channel selection would have that effect applied within a submaster, so I can bump the submaster to hold when I actually want to run the effect. I could of course go into blind sub and put an effect on the channel selection, but I would like to stay in live, so that the layout of the desk stays the same at all times. Going into blind via a background macro is not the problem, because that doesn't change the visible layout.
So I would like to type something like this: '91 Thru 100 Effect 141' and then press a macro that puts that thought into some dedicated submaster. The submaster would then configured to be a rate + size submaster, so I have great control over the effect as soon as I actually activate the effect through said submaster.
So this requires some hacks. And the approach I tried was to have the macro press enter for me, so the effect is activated in live, then store the effect in submaster 61 and quickly remove specifically only that very effect from live output again (through quick macros, so it's not noticable). So I need some sort of mask to only remove the effect I just typed in and then get back the previous manual values. So after some trial and error I figured out that putting a sub in LTP and then bumping twice would first overtake the effect (source is now the sub) and then stop the effect (effect stops entirely and does not go to manual source effect).
Macro 1 (foreground): 'Enter', 'Macro Button 2 Enter'.
Macro 2 (background): 'Select Last Effect Record Only Sub 62 Enter', 'Sub 62 LTP', 'BLIND Sub 61: Effect Recall From Sub 62 Enter', 'SubOn 62 Enter', 'SubOff 62 Enter', 'Delete Sub 62 Enter Enter'.
This sort of works, but it's not reliable, because it sometimes fails to disable the manual effect (the last part of the macro, but it does delete sub 62) and you see a slight flicker (for an intensity effect at least, focus effect would be slight movement), because the effect is activated in live output and not turned off quickly enough.
So does anyone have any ideas?