OK, the choice is to take a hammer to the computer or get help from you guys. The latter makes much more sense.
I am trying to use the PG VST Plug-ins. Specifically, the PG RTA. I want to analyze one track, a vocal track. I notice that green lines are moving even when the vocal stops. That tells me more than one track is hooked up to the RTA.
So I start looking and find that several tracks have their blue FX button on. I look at the tracks listed on the VST and sure enough there are several tracks with arrows.
I went to the FX buttons and tried to turn them off. No dice. So how do I turn off the FX send from a track to the VST effect?
If you add the FX to a single track as Noel showed above it will be on a single track.
If you add it using AUX FX or main out FX then you can have issues with multiple tracks sharing it. If the FX are in the AUX slot(s) you have to use the mixer's AUX dials to adjust.
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I don't even remember checking the blue FX button on some of these tracks.
What I need to do is uncheck them. I can't find anything in the Help Contents about this. I have clicked on it, held the shift key and clicked on it, pushed the delete key and stood on my head. Nothing works.
I would like to work on this project over the weekend. Does anyone know how to uncheck the button on a track so it is not routed to the VST?
I don't know how to post a picture. Let me see if I can describe what is happening more clearly.
In track view, click on the fx button on the left side of the track. A pop-up appears. It shows the track number you clicked the fx button on. You can choose the VST you want to use on that track.
Now suppose you change your mind or you chose the wrong track. RB won't let you uncheck the fx box on the incorrect track. If I choose the track I really want, it routes the mistaken track and the correct one through the VST.
So to explain what I was saying in the previous post: I click Edit/Audio/VST Plug-ins and the pop-up appears. I click on the Track line on the pop-up and it shows all the tracks that are routed to the VST. There are two arrows on each side of that track's name. I want to turn off the fx send for the tracks I do not want to process through the VST.
I have looked at the instructions again, to no avail.
Using your same Edit-Audio-VST path: Select the track you want in the top drop down. Go to the drop down below that holds the unwanted effect. Select 'None' here (it is at top of list, scroll up).
Does that help? Alternatively you could just click the FX button on the track(s) you want to change and select None as explained above.
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Even though it seems illogical, I tried it using the PG RTA. The graphic shows frequencies for the selected track. Either this thing is behind or ahead of playback, because it continues to show signal even when the vocal is doing nothing. That doesn't inspire confidence.
Then I tried muting the vocal. Nothing came through the graphic. That's a positive indicator.
Finally I checked the list of tracks currently routed through the VST. Only one shows up. That's positive.
So I guess the RTA is ahead of or behind the playback I hear by enough time that what you see is not what you hear. Makes it a little tougher to work with but considering what I had, I will take it. This is something PG should consider working on and they should add some instruction for it.
Rharv and Noel, thanks for taking the time to respond.
I think the Audio Buffer setting in Prefs controls how much (defaults to about 2 seconds so it is stable for even older systems). You can either use ASIO drivers (even ASIO4All may help). Or tinker with that buffer setting. Many systems can perform with less than the default buffers. Most are fine down into the low hundreds, many even lower.
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