Track, Master, and Send Effects

In the (6) Properties window select the Track DSPs tab. This is where you have to define the effects you want.

The DSP window now probably looks very similar to this one.

How Track DSPs work

Position the Pattern cursor on the track you wish to edit the DSP settings for. The Track DSPs menu always shows the settings for the track your cursor is currently in.

Basic effects are always positioned here - Panning, Volume and Width. Other effects from internal set or additional VST effects will appear in the Available list on left side. If VST effects don't appear in this list, you have to setup the VST path correctly in the Configs menu.

Now, select a DSP effect from the Available list and double click on it to insert it as a track effect. You can insert as many effects as you want (or your CPU can handle). Note that some effects may take much processing time so take it easy with them if your CPU is not very fast.

Send and Master tracks

Apart from the "normal" tracks, you'll find two more special kinds of tracks on the right side of the Pattern editor: the Master and Send tracks. The Master track contains the DSPs that affect the whole song, not only certain tracks. Send tracks can be assigned DSPs to, too. The useful thing comes now. All "normal" Sample tracks can send a certain amount of the audio signal to one or several Send tracks, so you double the signal and one part goes to the Send track, gets processed there, and the result goes to the Master output.

So if you, for example, like to define a special kind of delay for several Sample tracks, you do the following:

1. Set up the effects you'd like all tracks to share in the Send track by adding the DSPs of your choice (in this case a Delay effect) to it.
2. Move the cursor to the first "normal" Sample track that you want the Delay to work on.
3. Click on Track DSPs settings in the Properties window.
4. Open up the "Meta Devices" menu point and add a "*Send Device".
   This device will show up on the right side of the Properties window.
5. Make the settings you want to the Send Device, and voilá, you're done.
6. If desired, go on with the other tracks that you want to send audio signal to this Send track to. It works exactly the same as with this Sample track.

After inserting an effect, try to modify some of its parameters and then play your song to see how it sounds until you are satisfied with the result. Effects are processed in order as they are added ("from left to right", so to speak), so if you change the effect order, this will probably change the sound of the track a lot.

Changing the order of effects

To modify the effect order of effects, you can do two things.

• First possibility
  Go to the Track DSPs window and click on "Current" in the Effect selection menu.
  Click on the effect whose order you want changed and click on "MoveUp" or "MoveDown". The Effect order is from the top to the bottom, so the lower the effect is positioned, the later it is processed.
  You can also copy and paste effects with the buttons below. "Init" stands for "initialize", and you'll set up the selected effect to default settings by pressing this button. The Init function does not work with VST plugins though.
• Second possibility
  Go to the Track DSPs settings, find the effect whose order you want changed and then click on the "left" and "right" arrows on the upper left corner of the effect. This will move the effect one step to the left or right.

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