Instruction Manual

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External Insert Plug-in
New Features in SONAR 7
• Left Mute
• Right Mute
•Mono
See:
Automating Effects
To Use an External Effect in a SONAR Project
1. Make sure your external gear is connected to your audio interface and
turned on.
The external gear’s audio input must be connected to one of your audio
interface’s output ports and the external gear’s audio output must be
connected to one of your audio interface’s input ports.
2. Right-click an FX bin and select External Insert from the popup menu.
The External Insert property page appears.
3. Click the Send Port control and choose the audio port that is connected
to your external gear’s audio input.
4. Click the Return Port control and choose the audio port that is
connected to your external gear’s audio output.
5. Click the Delay Measurement control to measure the round-trip delay
through your audio hardware.
Note: Time-based effects such as reverb and delay can artificially
increase the latency measurement. Before manually measuring the
delay, you may want to bypass the external gear (if Bypass is supported
by your external gear).
6. Play back the project and adjust the Send and Return levels to obtain
the desired mix. You may also need to adjust levels on your external
gear.
Tip: The Send and Return levels, Phase and I/O port settings can be saved
as a preset. If you frequently use a specific external effect, save the settings
as a preset that can be quickly recalled in other projects.
Note: If you bounce audio in a project that uses the External Insert plug-in,
the bounce operation must be performed in real-time. For more information,
see Real-time Bounce.