Audio Effects V2 in Cubase

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Audio Effects V2 in Cubase

hello everybody andreww Blake from thedigital audiom manual.com today we moveon to our second video in the series ofaudio effects in qbase but before westart I want to remind you that there'sa link below to the content navigationguide which is an easy to navigate webpage with links to all the content onthis channel and besides that in thenear future I'm going to begin addingtips and other bits of information thatwill only be available there if you'reworking with programs like wavelab orqbase plugins or the cable gu shaperboox and many many other projects thatare in the works then I know you'regoing to find just like I have that thisis an invaluable study Aid and the otherthing I want to make sure you understandis that this is not a simple PDF this isa constantly updated page that has anyinformation that is new or anytimevideos are changed really anythingupdated and once you have it you willalways have the latest informationconstantly updated so if you haven'tgotten it already go to the link belowclick on it and save it to yourfavorites it's my give to you okay solet's get started in the last video wetalked about some various scenarios withusing audio effects but let's look atsome copy options if I go to my mixerand I have an effect on this channel andI grab it and I move it I can just bringit over if I need to but I can also holdthe ALT key which allows me to copy thateffect if I do the same thing hold altclick and drag my effect and move itover the other effect it still copies itover and then it moves the existingeffect down a slot every effect has abypass button which allows you to justremove the effect out of the chain butif you hold alt when you click thatbutton completely turn that effect offclicking it again just reactivates iteach track has an option to freeze thattrack removes your option to edit but itwill cut down in your processing powerin this example again I have aReverb and you can hear the Reverb tailringing out if I freeze this track I goup to the inspector to this littlesnowlake pitch click on that and then Iwould decide on the tail size if I don'twant that Reverb to ring out I can putit at 0 seconds when I hit okay itrenders the file off now when I play thetrack it's frozen but it has no Reverbtail if I come back and hit this freezebutton again it unfreezes it I candelete or keep the Frozen files I'mgoing to delete it this time I'm goingto freeze it but I'm going to put a5-second tail on here hit okay again itrenders it off this time it's a frozentrack it's not taking up hardly anyprocessing power but it still has arevertail anytime you actually make frozenfiles cubas creates another foldercalled Freeze in your audio folder youcan actually see and use these Frozenfiles so this is something you need theright kind of equipment to takeadvantage of but let's create an audiotrack and look at some surround soundoptions if I come down to the drop downthat says configuration I'm going to goall the way down to7.1.4 create that track open up thechannel and again if I insert an effectsay a Reverb I'm going to go toreverence in this case at this point Ican go to the routing tab down here atthe bottom and then hit this arrow andgo to the open routing editor and thisshows the different ways that the effectcan be configured through all thedifferent kinds of surround channels thedefault ones of left and right aretypically already connected but you canuse these arrows left to right and clickon these and you can move your effectthrough different configurations androutings of the channel if you uncheckthe link you can independently changethe routing and then if you ever need toput it back hit reset and it goesthrough its original configuration sothe two second tour is we at thisrouting diagram from the top you havethe connections coming into the effectthe gray bar in the middle is the effectand then the connections at the bottomare coming out of the effect every oneof these lines represents a differentkind of connection if you click on ityou open it up click on it again youconnect it when we're looking at thesearrows again if you have the link buttonchecked when you move it you're movingboth the input and the output when youhit the this link button the top arrowsare changing the inputs the bottomarrows are changing the outputs andagain if you want to put it back to theoriginal you hit reset these diagramswith the little squares are actually therouting connections these straight linesare bypassed connections when you clickon them they're broken connectionsmeaning nothing goes through thatchannel so obviously on bypassconnections signals are coming throughbut they're not being processed by theeffect so if you make these kind ofcross connections let's say I move thetop connections over then theseprocessed connections on these channelsare moving through the effect and thencoming back out through the left andright channels but at the same time theoriginal left and right information isstill coming through these channels butit's unaffected anytime you're lookingat your insert list you have the optionto expand or collapse your tree and do asearch if you want but another niceoption is this dropdown which allows youto change between category and vendorwhen you use a send and you turn it onand start making some adjust ments youhold control and click on it it alwayssets to whatever the default is and inthis case that's at zero but youactually have some choices on what thatdefault setting is if we go to edit downto preferences we look at our VST optionon the right we have an option that saysthe default send level as you can seemine say zero if I hit this drop downlist I can pick -6 -2 or negativeInfinity the good thing about this oneafter I hit apply and okay it's almostlike a kill switch for your effect if Ihold control and hit this puts theeffect completely dry which is a goodway to start with my effect that way I'mnot influenced by anything when I firststart dragging itin so going back to ascend effect let'sgo ahead and add one in again at themixer right click on an empty space goup to add an effects track the thing tokeep in mind when you're using Ascendtrack is of course you can set it up asa simple effect let's say you want toreverb or a delay go to the top you pickyour effect once you've added an effectto your effects track you can go downand click on it you give it a simplername if you want you can actually openit up like a regular channel and adjustthe EQ for that maybe take out some ofthe low end of that effect but some ofthe other things that probably getoverlooked is you can add automation toan effects track whether it's the faderor the actual effect in the effectstrack you can change the balance of youreffects when you initially add theseeffects you're given the option ofwhether you want it inside or outside ofthe folder if you put it outside thefolder it just goes in the track listlike any other track if you put itinside the folder folder qbas creates aspecific folder for all your effectswhich you can then expand or collapsebut the other thing to keep in mind withthese effects channels is again not onlycan you add one effect to them like aReverb or delay or whatever you're doingyou can create these very elaborateeffects chains with a Reverb a delay anykind of saturation and these things canthen be saved as a track preset andrecalled later and if you need somequick inspiration like maybe you don'tknow where to begin on adding extraeffects on top of effects you can rightclick at any time on an effects Channeland go down to your option that says usea track preset and keep in mind thatqbase comes with a large library ofalready configured track presets on alldifferent kinds of things for base foryour percussion or maybe I want to lookat some of the vocal options if I clickon vocal and then I go over on the rightI can click any one of these presets andthat will load that effects Channel upwith some of these amazing soundingpreconfigured presets with eqs alreadydialed in various things in the channelstrip already activated lists of iouseffects already in the insert columnlet's take this particular one I loadedfor the vocal and then maybe I'll takethis sample vocal here and add thateffect as a send effect and then I cantake my dryvocal and add that effect toit I feelthelight don't forget to take advantage ofall that inspiration just waiting to beused in those track presets that arealready built built into qbase andthat's going to wrap it up for today asalways if you haven't already be sure tograb your copy of the digital audiomanual content navigation guide from thelink below the faster better way tolearn and review pick it up look it overall the different topics that aregathered there and then you too can getstarted on your path to a better way tolearn all this stuff as we continue tolook through the audio effects in qbasewe saw how we can alt copy and freezeeffects we got into a little bit ofmulti-channel routing looked at therouting editor the routing connectionswe saw how you can change the effectselector around we learned how we canset as send effect default and then wefinished off looking at effects channelsand all the various options you can dowith those and we will continue thisdiscussion as we work our way throughall the different topics in qbase asalways it's great to have you guys hereand I'll see you on the next[Music]video