Automation & MIDI control

Cloudmax Breeze shows 8 of its controls to your DAW. These are called automation parameters. You can use them in two ways:

• Automation: your DAW moves a control for you at the right moment in the song. For example, more Breeze in the chorus, less in the verse.
• MIDI control: you move a control with a knob or fader on your MIDI controller.

Automation in your DAW

The quickest way in every DAW: move the control in Breeze. Most DAWs remember the last control you touched and offer it for automation straight away.

Ableton Live: press A in the Arrangement view, pick Cloudmax Breeze and the parameter in the automation lane, then draw the curve or record it with Automation Arm.

Logic Pro: press A, choose Cloudmax Breeze and the parameter in the lane’s menu, then draw the curve or use Latch or Touch mode.

Other DAWs work the same way: open the track’s automation, choose Cloudmax Breeze, pick the parameter.

MIDI control

Ableton Live: show the device parameters with the small triangle in the device title bar, press ⌘ + M (Mac) or Ctrl + M (Windows), click the parameter, move your controller, press the shortcut again.

Logic Pro: move the control in Breeze, press ⌘ + L, move your controller, press ⌘ + L again.

Other DAWs usually call this MIDI Learn.

Tip

The Main Knob is the one to put on hardware: it moves the whole chain at once.

Every parameter

The names below are exactly what your DAW shows. Some of them differ from the labels on the plugin.

DAW name	On the plugin	What it does
Main Knob	Breeze knob	The whole chain at once: room, brightness and saturation.
Space	SPACE	The maximum amount of room the Breeze knob can add.
Depth	SPAN	The length of the room, up to about 6 seconds.
Makeup	MAKEUP	Glue compressor with makeup gain.
Tone	CRISP	The maximum brightness the Breeze knob can add, up to 12 dB.
Amp	HEAT knob	The maximum saturation the Breeze knob can add.
Heat	HEAT switch	Turns the saturation stage on or off.
Output Level	Output faders	The output level of the plugin, in dB.