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Audio effects
Making settings
Effect control panels may have any combination of knobs,
sliders, buttons and graphic curves.
Ö For specifics about the included effects and their pa-
rameters, please refer to the chapter “The included effect
plug-ins” on page 18.
If you edit the parameters for an effect, these settings are
saved automatically in the project. If you want to save the
current settings, the following points apply:
• The basis for the current settings may have been a preset ef-
fect program, in which case there is a name in the preset field.
• The basis for the current settings may have been a default set-
ting program location in which case “Default” is displayed in
the preset field.
In both cases, if you have changed any effect parameter
settings, these are automatically saved when you save the
program. How to select and save effect presets is de-
scribed below.
Automating effect parameters
Effects parameters can be automated – see the chapter
“Automation” in the Operation Manual.
Effect presets
Cubase AI comes with a number of categorized VST pre-
sets that you can use straight out of the box. VST presets
are stored parameter settings for a specific effect.
Selecting effect presets
Most VST effect plug-ins come with a number of useful
presets for instant selection. The Preset browser can ei-
ther be accessed from the control panel for the effect,
from the Channel Settings window, or from the Inspector.
To select an effect preset, proceed as follows:
1. Load an effect, either as a channel Insert or into a FX
channel, it doesn’t matter.
The effect’s control panel is automatically shown when loaded.
2. Click in the name field at the top of the effect’s control
panel.
This opens the Preset browser.
• The right half of the browser shows the available pre-
sets for the selected effect.
Selecting a preset loads it directly, replacing the previous preset.
• The lower left half of the Preset browser contains a sec-
tion where all assigned attributes (to any preset) for the
selected effect are shown in the respective column.
If no attributes have been specified for the effect presets, the various col-
umns will be empty. If attributes have been assigned to a preset for this
effect, you can click on the assigned attribute in the respective column
(Category, Style etc.), to filter out all presets that do not match the se-
lected attribute(s).
• The preset handling for VST 2 plug-ins is slightly differ-
ent, see “About earlier VST effect presets” on page 15.
• You can also open the Preset browser from the Inspec-
tor. Click the Inserts tab for the channel with the effect and
click in the Preset name field.
• Click the VST Sound button (the cube symbol) to open
the Preset Management pop-up menu and select “Load
Preset…” from the pop-up menu that appears.
The “Load Preset” dialog opens.
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In the Inspector there is a dual functionality. When an
effect is loaded into a slot you can click on the Preset
name (or in the bottom half of the effect slot) to open
the Preset browser. Clicking in the upper half of the
slot will instead open the Effect selection pop-up.