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Here's an idea further down Immanuel's track - it's about using the Source, Dest and External devices, this time in Modular.
My ASIO inputs have nearly disappeared from my project views. I pass most inputs to modular patches. Here's, as an example, how I set up guitar tracks.
In each patch I load an Insert FX, wet and dry set to maximum level and Fx turned on.
In that, I load a Source M. I save the patch as 'Input Patch M', as a template. Then to the Source M I assign an ASIO bus coming from Cubase, let's say 'Lead Guitar'.
In the project there is a Source M, saved to my pre-amp on the Luna2496. Two of them actually: one hidden at the bottom, connected to a Dest M for ASIO recording of the guitar. A default mono ASIO track is set to that live input. The other one sits in front of the patches and mixer in the Project View. I connect that Source M (it's an External Effect really so I can also use Trakmaster as compressor/eq) each time to any patch my friend is going to play the guitar for. The patches are set up for lead, solo, bass processing etc. as the song develops.
The advantages of this setup for me?
- I arm a track and press record in Cubase and the TrakMaster guitar sound is recording. Played from disk or live, it sounds the same.
- The patches keep inputs free for modulation coming from other patches. I have a Source M from Asio Ramp in some patches, which I shape to LFO etc. I tap that line somewhere down the pad and like to send it to other patches' inputs, usually via output4 of the shell.
- Before I used to tend to get Modular 8IO shell, but since far most of the publicly available patches come in a 2In-4out shell, that didn't cover a lot of patches.
- I can crossmodulate big time and fast now, freeing up inputs by copying to a downloaded patch an InsertFx from another patch. I re-assign & save the contained SourceM to any driver source I want to process.
Disadvantage? That a patch in the Project View doesn't reveal it's name, you have to open it.
To bypass this problem a bit, I include a short of the patches' name in a preset I save. Even if I tweak the patch, the preset name remains easy to recognise the patch in (and recall it immediately from) the Live Bar. Would be nice if CW could show the patch name on the patch in the Project View, we have that option for the mixers already.
Enjoy
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