User manual

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Audio effects
Setting up send effects
Adding an FX channel track
1. Pull down the Project menu and select “FX Channel”
from the “Add Track” submenu.
A dialog appears.
2. Select a channel configuration for the FX channel
track.
Normally, stereo is a good choice since most effect plug-ins have stereo
outputs.
3. Select an effect for the FX channel track.
This is not strictly necessary at this point – you can leave the plug-in
pop-up menu set to “No Effect” and add effects to the FX channel later if
you like.
4. Click OK.
An FX channel track is added to the track list, and the selected effect, if
any, is loaded into the first insert effect slot for the FX channel (in that
case, the lit Inserts tab for the FX channel track in the Inspector indicates
that an effect has been assigned and automatically activated).
• All FX channel tracks you create will appear in a dedi-
cated “folder” track in the Track list.
This makes it easy to manage and keep track of all your FX channel
tracks, and also allows you to save screen space by folding in the FX
Channel folder.
FX channel tracks are automatically named “FX 1”, “FX 2” etc., but you
can rename them if you wish. Just double-click the name of an FX chan-
nel track in either the Track list or the Inspector and type in a new name.
Adding and setting up effects
As mentioned above, you can add a single insert effect
when you create the FX channel track. To add and set up
effects after the FX channel track is created, you can ei-
ther use the Inspector for the track (click the Inserts tab)
or the VST FX Channel Settings window:
1. Click the Edit (“e”) button for the FX channel track (in
the Track list, mixer or Inspector).
The FX Channel Settings window appears, similar to a regular Channel
Settings window.
To the left in the window is the Inserts section with eight effect slots.
2. Make sure the FX channel is routed to the correct out-
put bus.
This is done with the output routing pop-up menu at the top of the fader
section (also available in the mixer and Inspector).
3. To add an insert effect in an empty slot (or to replace
the current effect in a slot), click in the slot and select an
effect from the pop-up menu.
This works just like when selecting insert effects for a regular audio
channel.
4. When you add an effect, its control panel will automat-
ically appear. When you set up send effects, you would
normally set the wet/dry Mix control to all “wet”.
This is because you control the balance between the wet and the dry sig-
nal with the effect sends. For more information, see “Making settings for
the effects” on page 176.
• You can add up to eight effects for an FX channel.
The signal will pass through all the effects in series. It is not possible to
adjust the effect send and return levels separately for the effects – this is
done for the FX channel as a whole. If what you want is several separate
send effects (where you can control the send and return levels indepen-
dently), you should instead add more FX channel tracks – one for each
effect.
• You can reorder the effects by clicking in the area above
the name field and dragging the effect onto another slot.
• You can copy an effect into another effect slot (for the
same channel or between channels) by holding down
[Ctrl]/[Command] and dragging it onto another effect slot.
• To remove an insert effect from a slot, click in the slot
and select “No Effect” from the pop-up menu.
You should do this for all effects that you don’t intend to use, to reduce
the CPU load.