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Audio effects
• To bypass all inserts for a track, click the global bypass
button.
This button can be found at the top of the Inserts section in the Inspector
or the Channel Settings window. It lights up in yellow to indicate that the
inserts of this track are bypassed. In the track list and the channel strip in
the mixer, the Inserts State button will also light up in yellow.
Insert effects in the channel overview
If the “Channel” section is selected in the Inspector or the
“Channel Overview” view mode is selected in the extended
mixer, you will get an overview of which insert effects, EQ
modules and effect sends are activated for the channel.
You can activate or deactivate individual insert effect slots
by clicking the corresponding number (in the top part of
the overview).
The channel overview in the Inspector.
Using mono or stereo effects with a surround
channel (Cubase only)
Whether your effect supports mono, stereo or multi-chan-
nel processing, depends entirely on the effect plug-in.
Normally, when you apply a mono or stereo insert effect to
a surround (multi-channel) track, the first speaker chan-
nels of the track (often L and/or R) are routed through the
effect’s available channels, and the other channels of the
track are left unprocessed.
However, you may want to apply the effect to other speaker
channels. This is done in the Channel Settings window:
1. Right-click somewhere in the Channel Settings win-
dow (except the EQ display) to open the Channel Settings
context menu.
2. Select “Customize View” from the menu, and select
“Insert Routing” from the submenu.
The Insert Routing section appears to the left of the EQ display. It con-
tains a row of small signal diagrams.
3. Double-click on the small signal diagram for the effect
to open the Routing Editor window.
The Routing Editor window.
The columns in the diagram represent the channels in the
current configuration, with signals passing from top to
bottom. The gray field in the middle represents the actual
effect plug-in.
• The squares above the effect represent inputs to the effect
plug-in.
• The squares below the effect represent outputs from the ef-
fect plug-in.
The blue color of inserts 1 and 2 and
the blue Inserts State button in the
channel strip indicate that this track
has active inserts.