Steinberg Cubase LE 4 Plug In Reference Manual

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Note that the last three items are not shown until the Send 
is activated and an effect has been loaded.
2.Pull down the routing pop-up menu for a send by 
clicking in the empty slot, and select the desired routing 
destination.
 If the first item on this menu, “No Bus” is selected, the send 
isn’t routed anywhere.
 Items called “FX 1”, “FX 2” etc. correspond to existing FX 
tracks. If you have renamed an FX track (see “Adding an FX 
channel track” on page 9) that name will appear on...

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You can also bypass individual sends in the channel 
overview.
See “Insert effects in the channel overview” on page 8.
Alternatively, in the same manner you can bypass the 
send effects by clicking the “Bypass Inserts” button for 
the FX channel.
The difference is that this bypasses the actual send effects which may be 
used by several different channels. Bypassing a send affects that send 
and that channel only. If you bypass the insert effect the original sound 
will be passed through....

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Please note that all effects can be edited using a simpli-
fied control panel (horizontal sliders only, no graphics). To 
edit effects using this “basic” control panel instead, press 
[Ctrl]/[Command]+[Alt]/[Option]+[Shift] and click on the 
Edit button for the effect send or slot.
Making settings
Effect control panels may have any combination of knobs, 
sliders, buttons and graphic curves. 
ÖFor specifics about the included effects and their pa-
rameters, please refer to the chapter...

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You can also open the Preset browser from the Inspec-
tor. Click the Inserts tab for the channel with the effect and 
click in the Preset name field. 
Click the SoundFrame button (the cube symbol) to 
open the Preset Management pop-up menu and select 
“Load Preset…” from the pop-up menu that appears.
The “Load Preset” dialog opens.
This dialog is very similar to the Preset browser, but there 
is a difference in how the effect presets are loaded:
If you use the “Load Preset” dialog, this...

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You cannot change the default folder, but you can add fur-
ther subfolders inside the individual effect preset folder.
Under Windows, the default preset folder is located in the 
following location:
Boot drive/Documents and Settings/User name/Application data/VST3 
Presets.
 Under Mac OS, the default preset folder is located in 
the following location:
Users/Username/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/Presets/
3. In the File name field in the lower part of the dialog you 
can enter a name for the...

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Installing and managing effect plug-
ins
Cubase LE supports two plug-in formats; the VST 2 for-
mat (extension “.dll”) and the VST 3 format (extension 
“.vst3”). The formats are handled differently when it comes 
to installation and organizing.
Installing additional VST plug-ins
Installing VST 3 plug-ins under Mac OS X
To install a VST 3.x plug-in under Mac OS X, quit Cubase 
LE and drag the plug-in file to one of the following folders:
/Library/Audio/Plug-Ins/VST3/
This is only possible...

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The Plug-in Information window
On the Devices menu, you will find an item called “Plug-in 
Information”. Selecting this opens a dialog listing all the 
available VST compatible plug-ins in your system (includ-
ing VST Instruments).
Managing and selecting VST plug-ins
To see which VST plug-ins are available in your system, 
click the “VST PlugIns” tab at the top of the window. 
To enable a plug-in (make it available for selection), 
click in the left column.
Only the enabled plug-ins...

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The included effect plug-ins
Introduction
This chapter contains descriptions of the included plug-in 
effects and their parameters.
Delay plug-ins
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the 
“Delay” category.
PingPongDelay
This is a stereo delay effect that alternates each delay re-
peat between the left and right channels. The effect can 
either be tempo-based or use freely specified delay time 
settings.
The parameters are as follows:
Distortion plug-ins
This section contains...

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The included effect plug-ins
Dynamics plug-ins
This section contains descriptions of the plug-ins in the 
“Dynamics” category.
VSTDynamics
VSTDynamics is an advanced dynamics processor. It 
combines three separate processors: Gate, Compressor 
and Limiter, covering a variety of dynamic processing 
functions. The window is divided into three sections, con-
taining controls and meters for each processor.
Activating the individual processors
You activate the individual processors using the buttons 
at...