Adding Effects to a Bus

Bus effects will be applied to all tracks assigned to that bus. If a track contains track and bus effects, track effects will be processed before the bus effects. For more information about the audio signal flow, see Signal Flow Diagrams.

TIP If you want to add effects to all audio in your project, you can add effects to the Master bus.

WARNING

When input monitoring is on during audio recording, audio effects chains that contain non-in-place plug-ins are displayed in yellow () to indicate that automatic plug-in delay compensation is being used. Chains that cannot be used for live monitoring are automatically bypassed and are displayed in red ().

When using Acid software as a ReWire device, any effects chain that includes non-in-place plug-ins is automatically bypassed to prevent synchronization problems with the ReWire mixer application. The effects chain icon is displayed in red (). Apply the plug-ins within the ReWire mixer application.

Add effects to a bus Closed

Using the bus track header

  1. Click the Bus FX button on a bus track. The Plug-in Chooser window appears.

    The Bus FX button is displayed in gray when a bus does not have effects assigned. When no effects exist on a bus, clicking the Bus FX button displays the Audio Plug-In Chooser.

  2. Select each plug-in you want to add and click the Add button or browse to a packaged effects chain.

    TIP To reorder the plug-ins within the chain, drag a plug-in button to a new location or click the Shift Plug-In Left or Shift Plug in Right buttons.

  3. Once you have added all of the plug-ins and specified the plug-in chain order, click on the OK button to close the Plug-In Chooser and return to the Audio Plug-In window.

  4. Adjust the settings for the effects. For more information about using specific plug-ins, click the Plug-In Help button .

Using the Mixing Console

You can also use the Insert FX control region in the Mixing Console to edit the effects chain for each bus.

For more information, please see Bus Channel Strips.

Edit bus effects Closed

  1. Click the Bus FX button on a bus track to open the Audio Plug-In window.

  2. Use the Audio Plug-In window to enable/bypass effects, edit effect parameters, and add/remove effects from a chain. For more information about using specific plug-ins, click the Plug-In Help button .

For more information about using the Insert FX control region in the Mixing Console to edit the effects chain, please see Bus Channel Strips.

Automate effect parametersClosed

If a plug-in supports automation, you can add envelopes to a bus track to automatically adjust effect parameters over time.

For more information about using automation envelopes on tracks, see Adding Audio Track Envelopes.