Instruction Manual

620 Mixing
Organizing Plug-ins
To Apply Inserted Clip Effects
1. If you want to apply the inserted effects on more than one clip, select
them.
2. If you want to leave room at the end of any clips for effects tails, slip-
edit the ends of the clips to leave some empty space.
3. Use the Edit-Bounce to Clip(s) command.
After the progress bar disappears, the bounced clips appear with new
waveforms to reflect the effects processing. The inserted clip effects are
removed from the bounced clips automatically.
Organizing Plug-ins
Once you have more than a few plug-in effects and/or soft synths installed
on your computer, you might want to organize the way they appear in the
various plug-in and synth menus that you use. The Cakewalk Plug-in
Manager is a powerful tool to organize your plug-in menus. Open the Plug-
in Manager by using the Tools-Cakewalk Plug-in Manager command, and
display the Plug-in Manager’s help file by pressing F1.
Even if you don’t use the Plug-in Manager, SONAR now automatically
organizes all DX and VST plug-ins into a default plug-in menu layout called
Default – All Plug-ins. If you select the Plug-in Layouts-Manage Layouts
option from a plug-in menu, the Plug-in Manager opens and automatically
populates the Plug-in Layout area with the Default Layout, which produces
a solid starting point for customizing layouts.
VST plug-ins are organized in menus according to the file folder structure in
which they reside on your hard disk.
VST Configuration
SONAR automatically scans your VST folders for new plug-ins on startup,
registering any unscanned VST plug-ins so that they become available in
SONAR’s plug-in menus. You can turn off automatic scanning by using the
Options-Global command, and unchecking the Scan For VST Plug-ins On
Startup checkbox that is on the VST Plug-ins tab.
To configure your VST plug-ins manually, use either the VST Plug-ins tab
of the Global Options dialog, or the Cakewalk Plug-in Manager. You can
use the Global Options dialog to set general VST options, such as choosing
which folders to scan, but not specific options on individual plug-ins. Use