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3.From the submenu, select “Send Routing” and “Con-
trol Strip”.
In the Send Routing section of the Channel Settings window, each send is 
shown as a small routing diagram showing a pre/post selector to the right 
and a pan fader (where applicable). In the Control Strip section, you can 
activate the option “Link Send Routing Panners to Channel Panner as De-
fault”. When this is activated, the send panners follow the pan for the chan-
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Creating a Ducking delay
The delay repeats can be silenced by side-chain signals 
exceeding a certain threshold.
You can use this feature to create a so-called “ducking 
delay” for your vocals. Let’s say you want to add a delay 
effect that is audible only when no signal is present on the 
vocal track. For this, you need to set up a delay effect 
which is deactivated every time the vocals start again.
Proceed as follows:
1.Select the vocal track. 
2.On the Project menu, select...

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Side-chain and Modulation
Side-chain signals bypass the built-in LFO modulation 
and instead apply modulation according to the envelope 
of the side-chain signal. Since each channel will be ana-
lyzed and modulated separately, this allows for creating 
astonishing spatial stereo or surround modulation effects. 
Feel free to experiment with the functions to see what they 
have to offer!
About drag&drop
When you drag effects from one insert slot to another (on 
the same channel or between...

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Effect presets
Effect preset management in Cubase is very versatile. In 
the MediaBay – or with certain limits in the Save Preset di-
alog – you can assign attributes to presets which allow 
you to organize and browse them according to various cri-
teria. Cubase comes with a huge array of categorized 
track and VST presets that you can use straight out of the 
box. You can also preview effect presets before loading 
them which considerably speeds up the process of find-
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2.Select “Save Preset…” from the pop-up menu.
This opens a dialog where you can save the current settings as a preset.
3.In the File name field in the lower part of the Save Pre-
set dialog, enter a name for the new preset.
If you wish to assign attributes to the preset, click the 
Tag Editor button.
Click in the Value column to select an appropriate “tag” for one or sev-
eral of the available categories in the Attributes column. For further infor-
mation on preset handling and the Tag...

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Saving insert effect combinations
You can save the complete insert effect rack for a channel 
together with all parameter settings as an inserts preset. 
Inserts presets can be applied to audio, instruments, FX 
channel or group tracks.
This works as follows:
1.Select the desired track in the Track list and open the 
Inserts Inspector section.
2.Load a combination of insert effects and adjust the pa-
rameters (or select effect presets) for each effect.
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Installing VST 2.x plug-ins under Mac OS X
To install a VST 2.x plug-in under Mac OS X, quit Cubase 
and drag the plug-in file to one of the following folders:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
This is only possible if you are the system administrator. Plug-ins in-
stalled in this folder will be available to all users, for all programs that 
support them.
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST/
“” is the name you use to log on to the computer (the easi-
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Managing and selecting VST plug-ins
To display all available VST plug-ins, open the “VST 
PlugIns” tab.
To enable a plug-in (make it available for selection), put 
a check mark in the left column.
Only the enabled plug-ins will appear on the effect menus.
The Instances column indicates how many instances of 
the plug-in are currently used in Cubase.
Clicking in this column for a plug-in which is already in use produces a 
pop-up showing exactly where each use occurs.
ÖA plug-in may be...

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VST Instruments and Instrument tracks 

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Introduction
VST Instruments are software synthesizers (or other sound 
sources) that are contained within Cubase. They are played 
internally via MIDI. You can add effects or EQ to VST Instru-
ments, just as with audio tracks.
Some VST Instruments are included with Cubase, others 
can be purchased separately from Steinberg and other 
manufacturers.
ÖThis chapter describes the general procedures for 
setting up and using VST Instruments.
ÖDepending on the VST...