vst "soft" on/off

[gurulogic]

Is it somehow possible to implement a soft on/off for VST's? Often when I turn a VST on or off, and especially when switching several VST's on or off at the same time I get a crunch in my audio. It would be great if there were a solution for this.

[senso]

I think that it's easy to implement it within the vst patch itself?
I mean a small fade in/out when the "bypass" is activated.

[FarfadetFarfelu]

I agree this is a real problem, I did a small sub-patch for this :



I don't usually use the bypass path inside the VST so i use a mute to kill the signal after the vst.
What happens here is that when you press on the bypass switch to turn on the effect, the effects is unbypassed, and then after a slight delay the mute comes off, to avoid the clicking sound of the vst activation.
When you press the bypass switch again to turn off the effect, the mute takes place first and then the effect is bypassed to avoid the clicking again.
I'm open to better suggestions...


The smooth feature inside the volume/mute module is cool in itself, but what would be needed for our purpose here is a FAST MUTE + SLOW UNMUTE MODE.
This would allow me to ditch my sub patches and gain some cpu power...

[23fx23]

What about multiplicating audio by a ramp generator module, its possible to set the direction of the fade and the speed with a single module.