By Craig Anderton
There are plenty of places in SONAR where you can process the audio signal, but you need to know how to choose the right one.
What’s an “insert” effect? Don’t you always “insert” an effect? You indeed “insert” effects, but there’s a specific effect type usually called an Insert effect that inserts into an individual mixer channel. In SONAR, this inserts into a channel’s FX Bin or the ProChannel (Fig. 1).
Fig. 1: The FX bin for two channels have insert effects, as does the ProChannel for the Vocals channel.
Insert effects affect only the channel into which they are inserted. Typical insert effects include dynamics processors, distortion, EQ (because of EQ’s importance, it’s a permanent ProChannel insert effect), flanging, and other effects that apply to a specific sound in a specific channel.
Then what’s a “send” effect? Also called an Continue reading “Basics: Five Questions about Effects Placement”