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3.On the menu, select “Routing”.
Each send is now shown as a small routing diagram, showing (from left to right) pre/
post selector, send on/off switch, send level, pan (where applicable) and send routing. 
You can adjust all of these settings here if needed.
4.Deactivate the “Link Send Routing Panners...” switch above the routing 
display.
When this is activated, the send panners follow the pan for the channel.
5.Click and drag the pan control for the desired send(s)...

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Setting effect levels
After you have set up the sends as described in the previous sections, 
the following is now possible:
•You can use the send level slider in the Channel Settings, Inspector, 
or the extended part of the mixer to set the send level.
By adjusting the send level you control the amount of signal sent from the audio chan-
nel to the FX channel.
Setting the effect send level.
•In the mixer, you can use the level fader for the FX channel to set the...

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FX channels and the Solo Defeat function
When mixing, you might sometimes want to solo specific audio chan-
nels, and listen only to these while other channels are muted. How-
ever, this will mute all FX channels as well. If the soloed audio channels 
have sends routed to FX channels, this means you won’t hear the send 
effects for the channels.
To remedy this, you can use the Solo Defeat function for the FX channel:
1.First press [Alt]/[Option] and click on the Solo...

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Using external effects (Cubase SX only)
Although this program comes with a top selection of VST effect plug-
ins and there’s a huge range of additional plug-ins available on the 
market, you may still have some hardware effect units that you want to 
use - valve compressors, reverb units, vintage tape echo machines, 
etc. By setting up external FX busses you can make your outboard 
equipment part of the Cubase SX virtual studio!
An external FX bus is basically a...

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3.In Cubase SX, open the VST Connections window from the Devices 
menu.
4.Click the External FX tab and click “Add External FX”.
5.In the dialog that appears, select Stereo on both pop-up menus 
(Send and Return configurations).
Again, this is because the hardware uses stereo connections in our example. If it uses 
mono connections, you should select Mono on the pop-ups, etc.
This adds a new External FX bus.
6.Click in the Device Port column for the Send Bus “Left” and...

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9.If you like, make additional settings for the bus.
These are found in the three columns to the right. Note however that you can adjust 
these while using the external effect - that may be easier as you can hear the result.
10.When you are done, close the VST Connections window.
How to use the external effect
If you now click an insert effect slot for any channel and look at the ef-
fect pop-up menu, you will find the new external FX bus listed under 
the “External...

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• A parameter window appears, showing the Delay, Send Gain and Return 
Gain settings for the external FX bus. You can adjust this as necessary while 
playing back.
Like any effect, you can use the external FX bus as an insert effect or 
as a send effect (an insert effect on an FX channel track). You can de-
activate or bypass the external effect with the usual controls.  

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Making settings for the effects
Selecting effect presets
Most VST effect plug-ins come with a number of useful presets for in-
stant selection. You can select presets in the control panel for the ef-
fect, but they are also available for selection from the Channel Settings 
window:
1.Open the Channel Settings for the channel with the insert effects.
This means that to select presets for send effects, you should open the FX Settings 
window for the FX channel track....

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Editing effects
All inserts and sends have an Edit (“e”) button. Clicking this opens the 
selected effect’s control panel in which you can make parameter set-
tings.
The contents, design and layout of the control panel depends on the se-
lected effect. However, all effect control panels have a power button, a 
Bypass button, Read/Write automation buttons (for automating effect 
parameter changes – see page 333), a preset selection pop-up menu 
and a file pop-up menu for...

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Naming effects
If you edit the parameters for an effect, these settings are saved auto-
matically in the project. If you want to name the current settings, the 
following points apply:
• The basis for the current settings may have been a preset effect program, in 
which case there is a name in the preset field.
• The basis for the current settings may have been a default setting program lo-
cation in which case “Default” is displayed in the preset field.
In both cases,...