User Manual
Table Of Contents
- Table of Contents
- Chapter 1 - Introduction
- Chapter 2 - Quickstart Guide
- 2.1 Connect Your Console to the Sound Card or External I/O
- 2.2 Create a New Session and Set the Preferences
- 2.3 Add Empty Racks
- 2.4 Add Plug-ins for Sound Processing
- 2.5 Snapshots
- 2.6 Create Processing Groups
- 2.7 Saving in MultiRack
- 2.8 Recall Safe Mode
- 2.9 Overview Window: Viewing the Status of All of Your Racks
- 2.10 Controlling MultiRack with MIDI
- 2.11 Show Mode
- 2.12 Shortcuts That Are Always Available
- 2.13 Automatic Recovery
- Chapter 3 - MultiRack Windows and Controls Explained
- Chapter 4 - MultiRack Menus
2.3 Add Empty Racks
A Rack is a chain of plug-ins used to process an audio signal, whether mono, stereo, or
mono-to-stereo. In the hardware world, signals flow from a console’s channel insert or aux
track, are processed with a collection of outboard gear, and then returned to the console.
MultiRack follows the same principle, except that processing takes place in virtual Racks
filled with plug-in processors rather than in hardware racks.
The first step in building a MultiRack processing setup is to add empty Racks.
Double click on the area that says Double Click to Add Rack.
This will reveal a dialogue box that asks how many Racks
you want to add, as well as what type of Rack (Mono,
Stereo, or Mono-to-Stereo). Don’t worry about making the
wrong choice; you can always change this setting later.
Now you’ll see one or more empty Racks. Define the
audio input and output channels of each Rack by clicking
on the left (input) and right (output) side rails of the
interface. The Audio I/O pull-down menu will open. T
number of channels available depends on the I/O devic
you are using. Set the channel(s) for both input (left side
rail) and output (right side rail) for each of the Rack
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