Soundtoys Effect Rack Multi-Effect Creation Tool User’s Guide Version 5 : For Mac and Windows
CONTENTS Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 THE BASICS / Pg. 3 AUTOMATION / Pg. 10 About Soundtoys Effect Rack .................................................................... pg. 4 Automation .................................................................................................... pg. 10 THE CONTROL PANEL / Pg. 5 ADDITIONAL INFORMATION / Pg. 12 Soundtoys Effect Rack Layout .................................................................. pg. 5 Tempo Control ..........................
THE BASICS Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 Figure 1: Soundtoys Effect Rack loaded up and ready to go! soundtoys.
THE BASICS - ABOUT SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 Soundtoys Effect Rack makes it incredibly easy to create simple or complex effect chains using the full palette of Soundtoys effects. Combine, create, rearrange, and save it all as a single preset. The sonic possibilities are endless. Build your own with drag and drop ease, or browse the built in presets for inspiration or starting points.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - THE CONTROL PANEL Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 Figure 2: Empty Effect Rack with Gear List displayed SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK LAYOUT TEMPO CONTROL Soundtoys Effect Rack is made up of three areas; the Control Panel, Tempo can be entered into Soundtoys Effect Rack one of three ways; Rack, and Gear List. At the top is the Control Panel, containing global syncing to MIDI (default), tapping in a tempo, or manually entering a controls for any effects loaded into the Rack below.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - THE CONTROL PANEL TEMPO CONTROL (continued) Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 adjust levels in your mix without having to go back and tweak individual plug-ins. Is the signal from your effect chain a little too hot for the mix? determine the BPM tempo of your tapping. This control is useful not No problem, simply turn down the Output control a bit. It’s as simple as only in determining the tempo of live tracks not recorded to a click track that in Soundtoys Effect Rack.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - THE CONTROL PANEL Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 MIX The Mix control determines the ratio between the dry (unprocessed) source audio and the wet (processed) signal. The Mix control is most useful when Soundtoys Effect Rack is used as an insert effect. When placed on an aux or buss we recommend placing the mix value to 100% wet and using the send levels to determine the level going into Soundtoys Effect Rack. At the control knob’s 12 o’clock position the mix balance is 50/50.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - THE RACK Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 Figure 3: Soundtoys Effect Rack’s Rack - Loaded! USING THE RACK of Devil-Loc above Crystallizer would look before it is secured into the Loading up the Rack is as easy as grabbing a piece of gear from the rack: Gear List and dragging it over to the Rack. You’ll see that the plug-in is loaded and assigned a slot in the rack. You can insert additional pieces of gear either above, below, or to replace existing slots in the rack.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - THE RACK Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 USING THE RACK (continued) EFFECTS PRESET MENU BUTTON You can also swap out rack pieces where the newly inserted piece of You will notice that once a new item is placed into the Rack, 3 small gear will take the place of an existing piece and remove it from the rack. control buttons appear on the right-hand side of the Rack.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - AUTOMATION Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 AUTOMATION While DAWs differ from each other in menu layouts, the naming Effect Rack has 128 “generic” automatable parameters. When you load convention will always appear like this: a plug-in into the rack, it automatically assigns its available parameters to any currently unassigned automation parameters.
SOUNDTOYS EFFECT RACK - AUTOMATION Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 AUTOMATION (continued) parameters changing to discrete (stepped) parameters on the fly. Therefore, all automation parameters in Effect Rack are always continuous. Discrete parameters (like Decapitator: Style) will still display proper string values (instead of a generic 0 to 1) when supported. IMPORTANT: Once you have written automation data to your host DAW, that automation is permanently locked in place.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION Soundtoys Effect Rack — Version 5 SUPPORT INFORMATION Now that you’ve taken the time to learn all about Soundtoys Effect Rack, have fun, experiment, and make greatness! If our plug-ins helped you take your production to the next level, let us know, we’d love to hear from you and what you were able to create with our software. If along the way however you should run into any hiccups or anything unexpected, we offer free technical support for all registered users.
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