frequency splitting (3 or 4 bands) in cubase 5?

[tunist]

this is an old topic that comes up from time to time and i just came back to some old projects and saw that i still don't have a proper solution, so i'm asking here for inspiration.

in cubase 5 there is support for surround sound channels in the mixer which can be used (theoretically) to support multiple stereo channels in ONE single mixer lane. so, for example, i could create a single surround sound group channel and route an instrument to it, then add an insert onto that group that splits the audio into 3 bands (low, middle and high frequencies)... then i could use cubase's internal insert routing panel on that channel to route each band to it's own inserts and then finally add a '3 into 1' mixer insert in the chain for the group channel and recombine the 3 bands back into one final stereo output.
i thought i had successfully done this in the past and my old projects do include this type of routing, but now when i re-open them i am not getting all the channels to output correctly.

what is occurring is that the insert routing panel is only allowing me to output 2 stereo channels from any of the 3 way splitter plugins that i have here, while forcing one stereo channel to always bypass the splitter plugin.

does this sound familiar to anyone? anyone got a fix for this?

the other approach i recall is to not use surround sound at all and to instead create 4 stereo group channels and send the original stereo channel into 3 of them via FX send busses and then apply filtering to each of the 3 groups and then finally point those 3 into the 4th group to recombine into a single stereo signal, this is a bit messy though and probably is an inefficient approach too from a pc resources point of view.

anyone?

[tunist]

hmm.. seems that the issue is that the older version of rs-met's 3way crossover plugin did successfully get detected as outputting 3 bands and the new version does not. i now only have the new version, so need to somehow get the old version.

[Obsolete236871]

You can achieve what you want much easier, by using a modular plugin on a channel like:

VSTForx (older version is free) http://www.vstforx.de/
MUX Modular (fair prizing) http://www.mutools.com/mux-product.html
Fruity's Minihost Modular (free) http://www.image-line.com/documents/new ... 1391136116
DDMF Metaplugin (fair prize) http://www.ddmf.eu/product.php?id=3

You take the Output, connect it to a Frequency Splitter plugin like Freesome by De La Mancha, and now you can
built an individual effect chain for every frequency band that's outputted by the Splitter - Easy.

Don't make life more complicated than it already is!

[tunist]

thanks for the tips. the issue here though is that i am opening an old project that already has many plugins loaded using the existing approach. so ideally i would like to find the correct version of the crossover plugin that my project is expecting, rather than manually export each plugin's settings and then reload them all in the new plugin host setup.
one way or another i will resolve this, none the less!