Using Plug-Ins Effects As Inserts - PRESONUS STUDIOLIVE 24.4.2 Owner's Manual

6 Connecting to a Computer
6.4 Using Your StudioLive as an Audio Interface

6.4.3 Using Plug-Ins Effects as Inserts

A Quick Note About Printing Fat Channel Dynamics and EQ
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FireWire streaming on your StudioLive is continuously bidirectional. This means
that the StudioLive is always sending signals from the direct FireWire sends on all
24 input channel, as well as from the auxiliary inputs and buses assigned to the
second bank of eight FireWire sends. At the same time, the StudioLive is receiving
signals back from the 26 FireWire returns. Because the FireWire returns always
come back to their respective StudioLive channels, you can quickly insert a plug-in
from your recording application into any channel strip and monitor it in real time.
In this example, we will insert the Beat Delay plug-in from PreSonus Studio One
onto Channel 16 of the StudioLive.
1. To begin, create a mono audio track in Studio One. Assign its input to
Channel 16 and its output to Output 16. (Several DAW applications,
including Apple Logic™, do not offer mono output buses. If this is the
case, you must route the output stream to Channels 15-16 and pan the
channel all the way to the right so that it will only be sent to output 16.
Please consult your software's user manual for specific instructions.)
2. Once you have the routing set up in Studio One, drag-and-drop the Beat
Delay plug-in onto your track and record-enable it. Software monitoring will
be enabled automatically.
3. Press the FireWire Return Input button on Channel 16 of your StudioLive.
You can now monitor your analog signal with your inserted effect
as you record from any of the output buses on the StudioLive.
You probably will want to use the Fat Channel dynamics processing and EQ during
post-production. The question is how to print these changes to your recording.
An easy way to do this is through the subgroup FireWire returns. Begin by routing
a playback stream to an individual channel on the StudioLive from within your
recording application. With the FireWire return selected as the signal source
for that channel, press the channel's Select button and assign the channel to a
subgroup bus, ensuring that only that channel is routed to the subgroup. You can
then process the playback stream through the Fat Channel for both the individual
channel and for the subgroup. In your recording software, assign the subgroup
as an input source for a new track and record it. The unprocessed track can then
either be removed from the session or used in tandem with the processed track as
an effect. The flexible routing and mixing capability of the StudioLive provides you
with an arsenal of tools previously unavailable to "in the box" mixes. Don't be afraid
to test the limits of modern mixing techniques and to create a few of your own!
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