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Audio effects
4. Make sure the plug-in is set to dither to the correct
resolution.
This would be the resolution of your audio hardware (on playback) or the
desired resolution for the mixdown file you want to create (as set in the
Export Audio Mixdown dialog, see the chapter “Export Audio Mixdown”
on page 226).
5. Use the other parameters in the control panel to set up
the dithering to your liking.
Using group channels for insert effects
Like all other channels, group channels can have up to
eight insert effects. This is useful if you have several audio
tracks that you want to process through the same effect
(e.g. different vocal tracks that all should be processed by
the same compressor).
Another special use for group channels and effects is the
following:
If you have a mono audio track and want to process this
through a stereo insert effect (e.g. a stereo chorus or an
auto panner device), you cannot just insert the effect as
usual. This is because the audio track is in mono – the
output of the insert effect will be in mono as well, and the
stereo information from the effect will be lost.
One solution would be to route a send from the mono track
to a stereo FX channel track, set the send to pre-fader
mode and lower the fader completely for the mono audio
track. However, this makes mixing the track cumbersome,
since you cannot use the fader.
Here’s another solution:
1. Create a group channel track in stereo and route it to
the desired output bus.
2. Add the desired effect to the group channel as an in-
sert effect.
3. Route the mono audio track to the group channel.
Now the signal from the mono audio track is sent directly
to the group, where it passes through the insert effect, in
stereo.
Send effects
Background
As their name implies, send effects are outside of an audio
channel’s signal path, i.e. the audio data to be processed
must be sent to the effect (as opposed to insert effects,
which are inserted into the channel’s signal path).
To this end, Cubase AI provides FX channel tracks. When
you have created such a track, it is added to the Track list
and can be selected as a routing target in the Send slots
of audio channels.
• When selecting an FX channel track in one of the send
slots of an audio channel, the audio is sent to the FX chan-
nel and through any insert effects set up for it.
Each audio channel has eight sends, which can be routed to different FX
channels, and thus different FX channel insert effect configurations. You
control the amount of signal sent to the FX channel by adjusting the effect
send level.
• If you have added several effects to the FX channel, the
signal passes through the effects in series, from the top
(the first slot) downward.
This allows for “custom” send effect configurations – e.g. a chorus fol-
lowed by a reverb followed by an EQ and so on.
• The FX channel track has its own channel strip in the
mixer, the effect return channel.
Here you can adjust the effect return level and balance, add EQ and
route the effect return to any output bus.
• Each FX channel track can have an automation track, for
automating various effect parameters.
See the chapter “Automation” on page 108 for more information.