Add effect to all channels (Cubase)

[LeVzi]

There must be a working way to do this, I have a bunch of audio / instrument / group channels, and I want to add an effect at insert position 1 for them all. I saw someone say Shift + Alt will do it, but that doesn't work. Is there an easy way to do this if needed, instead of manually having to add it channel by channel ?

It's Cubase 10.5 btw.

[antic604]

There must be a working way to do this, I have a bunch of audio / instrument / group channels, and I want to add an effect at insert position 1 for them all. I saw someone say Shift + Alt will do it, but that doesn't work. Is there an easy way to do this if needed, instead of manually having to add it channel by channel ?

It's Cubase 10.5 btw.

Have you tried selecting / grouping the channels you want & just dragging the FX to one of them?

[rageix]

Open up your mixer, select all your channels and enable Q-Link (either by holding alt+shift or clicking the Q-Link button at the top of the mixer), select the insert spot and pick your plugin.

[middle_color]

There must be a working way to do this, I have a bunch of audio / instrument / group channels, and I want to add an effect at insert position 1 for them all. I saw someone say Shift + Alt will do it, but that doesn't work. Is there an easy way to do this if needed, instead of manually having to add it channel by channel ?

It's Cubase 10.5 btw.

"Shift Alt" will do this, but you need to hold it while selecting. Much easier is to activate and then deactivate button Q-Link.

Select all target channels in mixer. Activate Q-Link. Go to to 1st insert of any selected channel. Choose target VST effect. After 1-2 seconds freeze you will observe said effect added to all selected channels. Deactivate Q-Link.

Q-Link works for many parameters and will synchronize changes between selected channels.
"Shift Alt" activates Q-Link temporarily while holding.

[LeVzi]

There must be a working way to do this, I have a bunch of audio / instrument / group channels, and I want to add an effect at insert position 1 for them all. I saw someone say Shift + Alt will do it, but that doesn't work. Is there an easy way to do this if needed, instead of manually having to add it channel by channel ?

It's Cubase 10.5 btw.

Have you tried selecting / grouping the channels you want & just dragging the FX to one of them?

It's Waves NLS I want to add, it doesn't work the same way when grouping, supposed to be per channel.

[LeVzi]

Open up your mixer, select all your channels and enable Q-Link (either by holding alt+shift or clicking the Q-Link button at the top of the mixer), select the insert spot and pick your plugin.

There must be a working way to do this, I have a bunch of audio / instrument / group channels, and I want to add an effect at insert position 1 for them all. I saw someone say Shift + Alt will do it, but that doesn't work. Is there an easy way to do this if needed, instead of manually having to add it channel by channel ?

It's Cubase 10.5 btw.

"Shift Alt" will do this, but you need to hold it while selecting. Much easier is to activate and then deactivate button Q-Link.

Select all target channels in mixer. Activate Q-Link. Go to to 1st insert of any selected channel. Choose target VST effect. After 1-2 seconds freeze you will observe said effect added to all selected channels. Deactivate Q-Link.

Q-Link works for many parameters and will synchronize changes between selected channels.
"Shift Alt" activates Q-Link temporarily while holding.

Thanks chaps, that's perfect. Works like a charm.