Patchwork routing question

[Dewdman42]

Is it possible to have patchwork host a multi-out synth and have up to 8 of those stereo multi-outs ran through the 8 parallel chains before going to the AUX outs?

It seems that multi-out synths are supported, but the output goes directly out of patchwork with no further chain processing on each of those outputs individually. Unless I am missing something?

[Blue Cat Audio]

It is indeed possible. The aux outputs actually go to thru all slots after the synth but are by default not processed by plug-ins because effect plug-ins are by default assigned to the first main channels. You can choose to apply a plug-in to any channel by selecting its audio I/O.

For example if you want to add a compressor to aux 1-2 for a stereo plug-in (main outs are channel 1-2), insert the compressor and select "audio I/O". Using manual configuration for ins and outs, you can choose to apply the effect to channels 3-4 (your aux 1-2). You can even change the order of channels, swap left and right etc.

[Dewdman42]

you lost me a little bit.

If I have a synth in the PRE section, and that synth has multi outs. How do I assign stereo pair 1-2 from that synth to the first parallel chain, stereo pair 3-4 to the second parallel chain, etc..??

[Blue Cat Audio]

In fact you can assign I/Os for every single plug-in slot, not for entire parallel chains.

If you want to use parallel chains as separate stereo busses for different I/O, you will have to use another plug-in such as Blue Cay's Plug'n Script in order to select the I/O you want to process for each chain.

It is actually probably easier to just put your synth in the first PRE slot and add a PatchWork instance to other PRE slots, each one processing different channels. This way each PatchWork instance in the chain can be seen as an aux processor.

[Dewdman42]

I was under the impression the signal flows through all the PRE's, then its split to go to all the parallel chains, and then all the parallel chains are merged back to go through all the POSTS.

I do not think Patchwork can do what I wish, but if you can describe how I would love it, you still lost me a little bit..

I want to host a drum plugin in patchwork that has 8 stereo outputs and then I want to setup some effects chains for each of those 8 stereo outputs where I can do EQ, compression, etc. The reason for this is so that I can save as a single preset the complete drum setup with separate processing on each of the 8 stereo outputs...

[Blue Cat Audio]

The thing is, ALL channels go thru the entire network of plug-in in PatchWork. When processing only a subset of channels with a plug-in all others are passed to the next plug-in, unprocessed. So it is definitely possible to process each output separately (using the audio II/O options), but not using the parallel chains, because on each parallel chain unprocessed channels will still be there, unprocessed.

So the easiest way to do it is to use just the PRE and POST chains and insert your plug-ins there, selecting to which channel(s) they should apply.