User Manual

21 Using Audio Plug-Ins
This chapter describes how to access and use the audio plug-ins, including the Real-Time
AudioSuite (RTAS) and AudioSuite plug-ins that come with your Avid editing application.
• Real-Time AudioSuite Plug-Ins
• Avid AudioSuite Plug-Ins
• Core Avid Audio Plug-Ins
Real-Time AudioSuite Plug-Ins
Your Avid editing application supports up to five RTAS plug-in inserts on each audio track.
RTAS plug-ins are audio effects that you apply (or insert) on tracks, rather than on segments
within your sequence. These inserts let you process audio material on a track in real time so that
you can apply the effects to a sequence and play them back or output them without rendering
them first. This lets you add a type of audio track effect that Avid Pro Tools
®
also supports.
When you use more than one plug-in on a track, your Avid editing application processes them in
a series. Each effect gets added to that of any previous effect (moving from left to right in the
Track Control panel). You can only apply mono RTAS plug-ins to mono audio tracks and stereo
plug-ins to stereo audio tracks.
Avid qualifies a number of RTAS plug-ins manufactured by Avid for use with the current version
of your Avid editing application. This includes RTAS plug-ins in the DigiRack and Bomb
Factory plug-ins series. For a description of available RTAS plug-ins, see “Avid AudioSuite
Plug-Ins” on page 925.
Avid also supports some plug-ins from third-party vendors that you can purchase separately.
These plug-ins have their own detailed documentation. For information on Avid and third-party
plug-ins, go to the Avid Web site at www.avid.com.
If you move your sequence from one Avid editing application to another system and the RTAS
plug-in is not installed on that system, information about the effects display. In addition to the
“Unavailable Effect” text, the effect name and other information displays which allows you to
identify the effect. The information is displayed in the RTAS Tool.