Video: Setting up Aux Effects Sends in Logic Pro March 18, 2008
Posted by ConnorSmith in : Logic Studio 8, Videos, plugins (plug-ins) , trackbackThis video will show you how to setup effects sends using aux tracks and buses. I use a sample of my voice and apply reverb and delay using two different busses and aux effects tracks.
Transcript:
In this video from The Studio Files .com, I am going to show you how to use busses and aux tracks to setup effects in Logic Studio Pro. Let’s listen to the dry version of my sampled voice (which means no effects). We want to put reverb on that track. Go to the mixer window with apple+2. Now you will notice I have two aux tracks here already. Those are two tracks that I have setup to route the audio to my recording program so you guys can hear what is going on. Up in the “sends” area, click and hold on a spot, and you will notice that there are 64 different sends available. Let’s pick bus 10 to be our reverb bus. Notice Logic automatically created an Aux track with the input of bus 10. Label that “Reverb” by double-clicking the name. Now just insert a reverb plug-in, so that any audio coming to this aux track will be processed with reverb. Space Designer>Mono to Stereo. Sometimes these programs can be confusing, so for starters, use the preset menu here. Let’s pick a medium space, a plate, and “Ice Plate”. Now by dialing up this knob, we will start to add more and more reverb to my voice sample. Here is the sample with a little bit of reverb, I will hit the space bar to play. Now, let’s dial it way up, so you can really hear it. Let’s turn that down for a bit here. I will show you how to do a delay effects send. Use the next bus (bus 11). Again, Logic automatically creates an aux track with that input. Rather than just putting a plug-in insert, let’s go to the channel strip setting menu. Logic has many premade effects that you can choose with a click. We will choose a 1/4 note tape delay. Logic automatically put in a compressor, EQ and tape delay. Let’s open that up. Finally, we will add a little of both the reverb and the delay, and see how that sounds. I would recommend experimenting a few ways: first, insert your own plug-ins, and then try out the channel strip settings. Its very useful and very fast.
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do the channel count of busses change dynamically depending on the aux track? (ie a bus sending to a stereo aux automatically becomes a stereo bus?) is it possible to pan between the channels of a stereo bus, or is this tied to the pan of the track your sending from? i’m a new Logic user and it appears Logic is somewhat obtuse in regards to routing and busses and sends. any pointers on its specific behavior?
I can answer for you more in depth when I am front of my machine… but
The long and the short of it is: Logic does weird things with auxes and busses. As soon as you choose a bus as an output (or send), Logic will automatically add an aux track with that input to the environment, which the audio will be routed through.
It is possible to pan to different sides of a stereo bus, I can show you how with screen shots the next time I sit down at a Logic computer (Should be very soon).
Just remember that Logic obscures the difference between a bus and an aux track… They are created one and the same.
The other confusing thing is if you send to say “bus 15-16″ as the first bus you use, Logic will likely call that “Aux 1″ to start… rather confusing to me at least—if Aux 1 is B15-16 and Aux 2 is B1-2…