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Audio effects
4. When you add an effect, its control panel will automat-
ically appear. When you set up send effects, you 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 “Editing effects” on
page 140.
• 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 send and return levels separately for the effects – this is done
for the FX channel as a whole. If you want several separate send effects
(where you can control the send and return levels independently), add
more FX channel tracks instead – 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.
To reduce the CPU load, do this for all effects that you do not intend to
use.
• You can bypass individual effects (or all effects) by
clicking the corresponding Bypass button(s) for the FX
channel track.
See “Routing an audio channel or bus through insert effects” on page
133.
• You can also adjust level, pan and EQ for the effect re-
turn in the FX Channel Settings window.
This can also be done in the Mixer or in the Inspector.
Ö Remember that the more effect units you use, the
higher the CPU load.
Making settings for the sends
The next step is to set up a send for an audio channel and
route it to the FX channel. This can be done in the Chan
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nel Settings window or in the Inspector for the audio track.
The example below shows the Channel Settings window,
but the procedure is similar for all the sections:
1. Click the “e” button for an audio channel to bring up
its Channel Settings window.
The send section is located to the left of the channel strip.
Each of the sends has the following controls:
• An On/Off button for activating/deactivating the effect
• A send level slider
• A pre/post-fader switch
• An “e” (edit) button
Note that the last three items are not shown until the send
is activated and an effect has been loaded.
2. Pull down the Routing pop-up menu for a send by
clicking in the empty slot, and select the desired routing
destination.
• If the first item on this menu (“No Bus”) is selected, the send is
not routed anywhere.
• Items called “FX 1”, “FX 2” etc. correspond to existing FX
tracks. If you renamed an FX track (see “Adding an FX channel
track” on page 137), that name will appear on this menu in-
stead of the default.
• The menu also allows for routing a send directly to output bus-
ses, separate output bus channels or Group channels.
3. Select an FX channel track from the pop-up menu.
Now the send is routed to the FX channel.
4. Activate the On/Off button for the effect send.
5. Click and drag the send level slider to a moderate
value.
The send level determines how much of the signal from the audio chan-
nel is routed to the FX channel via the send.
Setting the Send level