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Tutorial 4: Mixing and Effects
Audio effects
Now let’s start using some effects:
1. Make sure the Mixer is open.
You can open the Mixer from the Devices menu or by pressing [F3].
2. Begin playback and loop or cycle a section of music
so that you can hear everything.
The tutorial project has its locators and cycle already set for this. Feel
free to change this if you like.
3. Click on the “Edit Audio Channels Settings” button on
the Bass track to open the VST Channel Settings window.
4. Let’s add compression to the Bass track to smooth it
out. Click on the “Select Insert Type 1” slot and choose
“VSTDynamics” from the Dynamics submenu.
5. Make changes to the settings in the Compressor sec-
tion. At the end of this section, you can load the next tuto-
rial that will contain all of the changes we have made.
About Automation
Automation allows us to make objects such as faders,
pan, knobs and effects move by themselves. This is very
handy in that we can tell Cubase AI to make changes over
a period of time and those changes will be remembered
and will occur again without our attention.
1. We created a fade in on the “Elec Guitar” track earlier.
Let’s remove the fade on this audio event and create some
automation instead. Zoom in so that you can see the first
audio event more clearly.
2. Select the event and choose “Remove Fades” from
the Audio menu.
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Load the project called “Mixing 6” found in the “Tuto-
rial 6” folder.
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Load up the project called “Mixing 8” found in the
“Tutorial 6” folder.