Right, so this whole thing I use all the time. I use Audio Sidechain modulators all over the place. Not just for Grid based generators but also device chain modulators.
Mostly using utility / auxiliary tracks as the generator source. So as the person on Reddit said, you get the benefit of ‘printing’ / ‘baking’ the modulation you like.
That’s another thing I do, is I have a utility track that is a generator, bounce it, then stick it in the arranger or clip arranger. That way I can fire it off whenever or have it loop etc.
Then like I said I stick Audio Sidechains to pick it up wherever I need it.
If you don’t bake/print the modulator you can build some pretty funky topologies where you have one of your generators being modulated by another of your generators.
But anyway, back to the feature request.
I think I like the idea of being able to create a custom modulator out of a grid, as it would spare the headache of setting up utility tracks and wotnot, and it is also much clearer what it does rather than ‘Audio Sidechain’ (when it really isn’t).
That said, I dunno how efficient Grids are. There might be a temptation to create dozens of instances of these things that are all doing the same thing, when you would be better having a single instance used in multiple places.
Ummm, yeah I dunno about efficiency but it sounds really cool on the whole. Me likey