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When you're mixing your Pro Tools project, you can set up an auxiliary input track to add effects to instruments. You can send multiple instruments to one type of effect if you want to use it globally on them. For example, all your drum tracks can be sent to one reverb track so that the effect is on all of them equally.
To use auxiliary inputs for effects:
1. You'll be working in the mixing window. First, add a new track to the window. This will be your auxiliary inputs track.
To add the track, go to Track--New or hold Shift+Apple+N to open the New Tracks window. Select Aux Input from the menu selection, remember to make it Stereo and then click Create. The new auxiliary input channel will be added to the mix window. You can move it to the place you find most convenient in the window.
It's also a good idea to rename the track by double clicking on it so that you can easily locate it later. After a while you may have a lot of tracks in the window, so it's helpful to have them all labeled.
2. Go to the top section of the new track and find the Inserts section. This is where you'll add the effect that you want to apply to the track. Click on an empty Inserts box and select the effect you want to use. The control window for that effect will open.
3. Once the auxiliary track is set up, go to the instrument track on which you want to apply the effect. You want to set up a Send from this track so that its signal will be sent to the auxiliary track. You'll use a Bus to carry the signal from one to the other.
Click on an empty box under Sends and go to Bus. Select any bus that isn't already in use. After you choose one, a new slider window will open for the bus. You'll return to this slider at the end.
4. Now that you've sent the signal from the instrument track, you need to set up the receiving end on the auxiliary input track.
Go to the auxiliary track that you added in Step 1 and added the effects to in Step 2. Find the section labeled I/O, which means Ins and Outs. Click on the input box and go to select bus. Then select the same bus that you selected in Step 3. This will allow your auxiliary track to receive the input from the instrument track.
5. Now you can play the instrument track with the auxiliary input effect added to it. First, you'll need to bring back the slider window that opened in Step 3. If it's disappeared, open it by clicking on the Bus label under the Sends section of the instrument track.
This fader represents the Send that you're sending through the Bus. It controls how much signal you're feeding into the effect track.
When you play the track, adjust the slider to feed the instrument into the auxiliary track. This mixes the direct, dry signal on top of the complete effect. Auxiliary inputs are a good way to add effect without it getting lost in the mix.
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These tutorials look really good! Currently, I'm a Logic Express user, but I'm planning on learning more programs, mostly Pro Tools and Cubase. Luckily it's all pretty much the same ;)
Thanks for the tuts!
osjcag 5 months ago
can you please wach this video and leave a comment
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soolman1 5 months ago