User Manual

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The Audio Montage
Adding effects to tracks and clips
The Montage supports VST effect plug-ins, both for indi-
vidual clips and for tracks. The main difference between
clip and track effects is:
• Clip effects affect individual clips only.
• Track effects affect all clips on a track.
The standard WaveLab Studio and DirectX plug-ins can-
not be used as clip or track effects in the Montage, but
VST versions of several standard WaveLab Studio effects
are provided, as well as several of the standard Cubase
VST effects. Each independent clip and/or audio track in
the Montage can be independently processed by up to
two VST effect plug-ins. Effects are configured either as
Inserts, when all sound is processed by the effect, or as
Send effects (“Split mode”) where the balance between
the unprocessed sound and the effect send level can be
adjusted or controlled by effect envelope curves (clip ef-
fects only).
Adding a clip effect slot
To add an effect to a clip, proceed as follows:
1. Open the clip speed menu by right-clicking the clip.
2. Select “Add effect slot…” from the menu.
A slot is created and a dialog box opens where various settings relating
to that slot can be made. Leave the dialog open for now.
Adding a track effect slot
To add an effect to a track, proceed as follows:
1. Click on the “Add effect slot” button in the Track Con-
trol area.
If no effects are currently loaded the button will display “no fx”.
2. Select “Add effect slot…” from the menu.
A slot is created and a dialog opens where various settings relating to
that slot can be made. Leave the dialog open for now.
Selecting an effect for a slot
The following applies to both clip and track effects.
1. Click on the button marked “Effects”.
A pop-up menu opens containing all installed VST plug-ins.
2. Select one of the effects from the menu.
The chosen effect’s parameters appear to the left in the dialog.
3. Change the parameter settings as desired.
4. When you are done, click “Close” to close the dialog
or leave it open if you want to make more adjustments
later.
You can continue working with the Effect dialog open. It is also possible
to have several Effect dialogs open.
If a clip effect has been added, the number [1] is displayed
before the clip name. This is to indicate that one active ef-
fect slot is used for that clip. For track effects, the number
of active effect slots currently used is shown in the “Add
effect slot” button.
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Only clip effects for clips that are active at the cur-
rent playback position will consume any CPU power.
This does not apply to track effects, which consume
CPU power regardless whether any clips on the
track are playing back or not.
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DirectX plug-ins from Waves Ltd. can be used as
Montage effects by using the Waves VST shell.
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The first time you play a Montage after opening or
cloning it, the program has to load all effects into
memory. If you have a lot of effects, this may result in
a short silence before playback starts.
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You can add effects during playback. However, if
you add an effect with a latency larger than zero (dis-
played to the right in the Effect dialog, see “Latency”
on page 179), you should stop and restart playback
to avoid timing discrepancies.
Also, a small number of VST plug-ins may change la-
tency depending on parameter settings. If that is the
case, make sure to stop and restart playback after
the latency is changed.