Creating multi-effects, Organizing your effects into several sounds – Native Instruments MASCHINE+ Standalone Production and Performance Instrument User Manual

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Turn Knob 1 (

Aux 1 DEST

.) to assign the first auxiliary output to the desired send effect. In

addition to the usual entries available in both fields, you will find all the Sounds and Groups

with an Effect Plug-in loaded in their first Plug-in slot — see

Step 1: Set Up a Sound or Group

as Send Effect

For each Sound, the entry shows the Group letter and number followed by the

Sound number (in the example underneath we selected the entry

A1:S1-1

for the

Aux 1

output).

Use Knob 2 (

Aux 1 LEVEL

) to adjust the level of the signal sent to that auxiliary output.

The signal of each auxiliary output is taken by default after the main output level control

has been applied. This can be changed via Knob 3 (

Aux 1 ORDER

). For more information,

see

Setting Up Auxiliary Outputs for Sounds and Groups

You can repeat the process to route more Sounds/Groups to the same send effect, or route the

same Sound/Group to another send effect send using

Aux 2

15.5. Creating Multi-Effects

Creating a multi-effect unit is basically the same thing as creating a series of Sounds as send

effects within a Group and arrange them as you see fit. Following the procedure described in the

previous section

Creating a Send Effect

in every Sound of the Group you can set up a send effect

containing any number of effects, the only limit being the processing power of your computer! You

can route Sounds within the Group to your liking: You can chain them all, keep them as separate

effects to be used in parallel, build any combination of both, etc.

Organizing Your Effects into Several Sounds

If you plan to build a multi-effects containing more than a few Effect Plug-ins in series, you have

many ways at your disposal. Since you can have any number of Effect Plug-ins in each Sound, you

can set up the whole sequence of effects in series into one single Sound. However, it might be

judicious to split your sequence of effects across several Sounds whose outputs are sent into the

inputs of the next Sound (thereby re-building an equivalent sequence of effects). Doing this can

have several advantages, for example:

• The Sound List lets you keep a better overview of your effect sequence than the tiny Plug-in List

in a single Sound.

• You can rename and colorize each Sound individually according to the effect(s) it contains.
• You have better control over your whole effect sequence.
• You can easily re-arrange your effect sequence by changing the routing between your Sounds.
To use several Sounds plugged in series, use the procedure described in the previous section

Creating a Send Effect

to send the output of each Sound to the input of the next one in the

sequence.

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