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Audio Effects
Cubase comes with a number of effect plug-ins included. This chapter contains
general details about how to assign, use and organize effect plug-ins. The effects
and their parameters are described in the separate PDF document “Plug-in
Reference”.
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This chapter describes audio effects, i. e. effects that are used to process audio,
group, VST instrument, and ReWire (not in Cubase LE) channels.
Overview
Audio effects can be used as follows:
• Insert effects
These effects are inserted into the signal chain of an audio channel, which
means that the whole channel signal passes through the effect. This makes
inserts suitable for effects for which you do not need to mix dry and wet sound,
e.
g. distortion, filters or other effects that change the tonal or dynamic
characteristics of the sound.
In Cubase Elements you can have up to eight different insert effects per
channel (and the same is true for output busses – for recording with master
effects). In Cubase AI and Cubase LE, four insert effects per channel are
available.
• Send effects
Each audio channel has eight sends in Cubase Elements and four sends in
Cubase AI and Cubase LE, each of which can be freely routed to an effect (or
to a chain of effects).
Send effects are practical for two reasons: you can control the balance
between the dry (direct) and wet (processed) sound individually for each
channel using the sends, and several different audio channels can use the
same send effect. Send effects are handled by means of FX channel tracks.