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Maximize Effects Processing
With Aux Busses
This tip is for users of SONAR,
Cakewalk Pro Audio, Cakewalk Club Tracks, Cakewalk
Guitar Tracks, Cakewalk
Guitar Tracks Pro, Cakewalk Guitar Studio, Cakewalk
Home Studio, and Cakewalk Professional. Have you ever tried to apply
an effect to a number of audio tracks but your CPU couldn’t handle
the workload? On some machines adding a second or third effect may make
your CPU Usage meter jump up to 90%, or even cause a dropout. You
could upgrade your processor, but not everyone can spend $300 on a CPU/motherboard
upgrade. Here’s a workaround that will help you maximize your use
of audio plug-ins.
Aux buses are useful for mixing
together different audio tracks (in stereo) and applying effects to the
mix. You can mix the tracks at different volume levels by adjusting each
track's aux send level.
You control the aux bus as follows in the console view
of your Cakewalk program. In SONAR, you can also control the aux buses
in the track view:
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To do this...
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Do this...
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Send audio data from an audio track to the aux bus
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In an audio track, press the Aux Send Enable button corresponding
to the aux bus
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Set the level of the audio data sent to the aux bus
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In an audio track, set the Aux Send Level corresponding to the
aux bus
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Set the input level to the aux bus
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Adjust the Send level
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Set the input panning to the aux bus
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Adjust the Send pan
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Add a real-time audio effect to the bus
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Right-click in the Effects patch point and select an effect from
the list.
For more information, open your Cakewalk product Help file and read
the Help topic titled Using Real-Time Effects
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Remove an effect
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Select the effect and press Delete,
or right-click and choose Delete
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Set the output level
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Adjust the Return level
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Set the output panning
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Adjust the Return balance
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Select the output
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Click the Output button and choose one from the list
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As with Audio strips, the Value box in the toolbar displays
the send and return levels in decibels and the send and return balance
values on a scale of 100%L to 100%R.
To Patch a Track Through an Aux Bus
- Open the Console view (View-Console) or the Track view (View-Track).
- Right-click in the FX bin of Aux 1 (if it is not in use already) and
choose an effect from the effects popup menu. (If you are working in
the Track view, you may first need to display the Bus pane by clicking
the Show/Hide Mains and Aux Buses button located at the bottom of the
Track view.)
The name of the effect you have chosen appears in Aux 1 and the effect
appears.
- Set the effect's parameters and close it.
- Repeat steps 2 and 3 for any additional effects you want to use.
- In Aux 1, adjust the Send and Return controls to the approximate level.
- In Aux 1, drag the Send and Return Pan controls to the approximate
positions.
- In a track module that you want to patch through Aux 1, do the following:
- Drag the Aux 1 Send Level control to the approximate level you
want.
- Click the Aux 1 Send Enable button.
- Repeat step 7 for all the tracks you want to patch through Aux 1.
- Play your tracks and adjust the Send Level controls, the Send and
Return controls, etc.
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