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Old 06-10-2016, 05:58 AM   #1
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Default How to route the 'WET' signal from a plugin's (mix-knob) to another track?

This I'd like to know, not only for processing, but not to have to always double a track to render the wet signal.

How to do this?
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Old 06-10-2016, 08:37 AM   #2
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Not sure I follow. You want to have both Wet and Dry going on at once without having to use two tracks (one all dry, one all wet)?

That's exactly what the mix knob is for. Turn it to 50% and you get half and half.

If you want to split it for processing reasons though, then put the effect on another track and route the unaffected track to it. Now you have a dry track and a wet track and you can put whatever other processing you want on it.

If it must must must be all one track, you can use the routing pins to do this instead. Send the last plugin before the wet plugin to channel 3/4 as well as 1/2, put the wet plugin on channel 3/4, and send it's out put to channel 1/2 also. Now one more plugin, any one, is needed to join those signals together, so for e.g. use JS Volume set at 0 and route 1/2 and 3/4 to 1/2 output.

As you can see the all on one track method is obfuscated, unnecessarily complex, and difficult to edit and keep track of especially after time away from a project. Use a second track. If you want you can hide this track.

As for rendering, you do not have to double. Turn the wet knob to 100%, render, turn it back to wherever you want it (or remove the plug altogether).
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Old 06-10-2016, 08:48 AM   #3
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I'd recommend just leaving it on 2 tracks as well.

The end goal is a mix that sounds right, not how the mixing board looks. From a mix perspective, grabbing a fader for each of the parallel elements (the "wet" processed thing you're doing + the "dry" original) is much easier and intuitive than adjusting a balance knob in a plugin GUI (and then having to correct the output levels after that 'balance' move - you're touching those faders anyway). And then you can just select those tracks for the render you want.
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Old 06-10-2016, 09:24 AM   #4
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Send the last plugin before the wet plugin to channel 3/4 as well as 1/2, put the wet plugin on channel 3/4, and send it's out put to channel 1/2 also.
I'm absolutely sure that you knew what you meant and this is a simple typo, but before OP (or anybody else) gets too much more confused, it should read "...out put to channel 3/4 also."
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Old 06-11-2016, 04:53 AM   #5
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Ok thank you all. So its always doubling tracks.
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Old 06-11-2016, 07:09 AM   #6
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Ok thank you all. So its always doubling tracks.
The very definition of parallel processing right?
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