Instruction Manual

618 Mixing
Using Real-Time Effects
The Presets window also has a feature called Preset Dirty Flags. A Preset
Dirty Flag is an asterisk that appears next to the name of the preset. The
asterisk tells you that you changed and saved this particular preset in
another project, and the settings in the current project are different from the
saved version. If you re-save the preset in the current project with the
current settings, the asterisk disappears, but will reappear in the other
project, showing you that the displayed settings in that project are different
from the last saved version of the preset. If you want to get rid of the
asterisk in all projects, save the preset in each project with the exact same
settings.
Plug-in property pages have a couple of other controls not related to
presets:
• Automation read and write buttons—these buttons enable or disable
automation playback and recording for the plug-in’s parameters. See
the online help topic “Automation,” for more information.
• Keystrokes button—enabling this button sends all keystrokes to a
particular instance of a plug-in when the plug-in’s property page has
focus.
Effects on Clips
Both audio and MIDI clips now contain full-featured FX bins. You can insert
real-time effects on clips, in both MIDI and audio tracks. Each clip that you
insert an effect on displays its own FX bin, that you can use to manage the
effects on that clip.
The characteristics of clip-based effects are:
• Splitting a clip copies the effect(s) onto both clips.
• You can copy or move clip-based effects from one clip to another, and
to or from the FX bin on a track.
• A clip’s FX bin also appears on the General tab of the clip’s Clip
Properties dialog (to open: right-click the clip and choose Clip
Properties from the popup menu).
Note: you cannot drag effects to or from the Clip Properties dialog.
• You can patch an effect onto multiple clips at the same time by first
selecting the clips.
• Audio effects can be automated by using clip envelopes.
•The Edit-Bounce to Clip(s) command follows clip boundaries—effects
tails are cut off, unless you slip-edit the end of the clip to leave space.