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KOACH · Theme 8

Effects

The room and the motion

How a program's effects are built: the insert chain and the aux sends, a layer's own effects, reverbs, delays, chorus, flanger and phaser, tremolo and auto-pan, EQ, enhancer and compressor, the factory's chains, and editing a chain.

A program's sound goes through its insert chain, a row of effects, and two sends feed the aux chains, most often a reverb. Each effect has a shape you can see: a reverb's decay, a delay's echoes, a chorus's motion, a compressor's curve.

Nine lessons: insert and aux, a layer's own effects, reverbs, delays, chorus, flanger and phaser, tremolo and auto-pan, EQ, enhancer and compressor, the factory's chains, and editing a chain in the Chain Editor. Each plays a factory program's own effects on a phrase you choose.

The lessons

From the routing to the Chain Editor.

Each lesson plays effects from the factory programs, with the values their own controllers give them: see the effect, move its values, and hear it.

Insert and aux: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 1Insert and auxRouting

A program's sound goes through its insert chain, effects in series that each mix their own wet and dry, and on to the output.

A layer's own effects: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 2A layer's own effectsLYR FX

Every layer plays through the program's insert chain unless its LYR FX page says otherwise.

Reverbs: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 3ReverbsRvrb

A reverb is the room: reflections so many that they blur into a tail.

Delays: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 4DelaysDly

A delay plays the sound again later: once for a slap, again and again with feedback.

Chorus, flanger and phaser: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 5Chorus, flanger and phaserMotion

These effects mix the sound with a copy that moves.

Tremolo and auto-pan: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 6Tremolo and auto-panLevel · Pan

A tremolo moves the level up and down with an LFO; an auto-panner moves the sound between the speakers.

EQ, enhancer and compressor: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 7EQ, enhancer and compressorTone · Dynamics

These shape the tone and the dynamics, not the space.

The factory's chains: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 8The factory's chainsTemplates

A chain is up to 16 boxes in series.

Orchestral 02 in 242 programs

Editing a chain: the lesson, as it moves

LESSON 9Editing a chainChain Editor

On the FX or LYR FX page put the cursor on a chain and press EDIT: the Chain Editor opens.

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