CAKEWALK SONAR - Effect Presets; How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects

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Effect Presets
You can use existing (non-surround) effects presets when you patch an effect to a
surround bus—selecting a non-surround preset sets all of a plug-in’s instances to
the settings of the preset; selecting a surround preset sets each instance’s
parameters individually, according to the information stored in the preset.
How to Patch and Configure Surround Effects
For step-by-step instructions, see the following procedures.
To Patch an Effect Into a Surround Bus
• Right-click the FX bin of a surround bus and choose a mono or stereo effect
from the popup menu.
The SurroundBridge patches multiple instances of the effect you chose into the
bus’s FX bin (however, only one effect appears in the bin), with default
assignments of surround channels to plug-in instances.
To Change Channel Assignments for a Patched Effect
1. If the effect’s property page is not open, display it by double-clicking the name
of the effect in the surround bus’s FX bin.
2. On the SurroundBridge tab of the effect’s property page, use the dropdown
menus in the Left Input and Right Input columns to assign individual
surround channels to instances of the effect.
Your assignments take effect immediately, and the names of the tabs in the
property page change to reflect the new assignments.
To Unlink Individual Effect Parameters from Other Effect
Instances
1. In the property page of an effect that’s patched into a surround bus, click the
Unlink Controls button so that it turns red.
2. Make some adjustments to the automatable parameters you want to unlink
(non-automatable parameters are not linked together). You can select
parameters on any tab.
3. When you’re finished adjusting parameters, click the Unlink Controls button
again so that it’s not red.
Now you can adjust the parameters you adjusted, without automatically adjusting
the same parameters that are on other tabs of the effect’s property page.
A list of the parameters that you unlinked appears in the Unlinked Controls field
on the SurroundBridge tab, with the instance number listed in the Plug-in #
column of the Unlinked Controls field.
If you unlinked some but not all of an instance’s parameters, the instance’s
checkbox in the Controls Linked to Group column appears grey, with a check.