Reduce the gain of many/all clips (audi and midi), simultaneously?
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- KVRist
- 345 posts since 7 Mar, 2023
How do you reduce the gain of many or all clips in a project (both audio and MIDI), sumultaneously, by x number of dB? If this is not possible, is there a way to reduce the gain of numerous audio clips sumultaneously, by x number of dB? Thank you.
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- KVRAF
- 4890 posts since 3 Jan, 2003 from Vancouver
First of all, MIDI clips don't have gain. Any kind of gain would occur after the instrument they send data to. You can change the velocity, but that might do something more, something less, or nothing at all. Velocity sensitivity varies a lot. It's really not gain. You will want to use a volume plugin.
If you have multiple audio clips selected, you can change the gain in the Browser-> Actions or the Controls Panel. Note that if any audio clips already have an altered gain, it will add more. So if gain was at 0, adding 5 will make it 5. If gain was at 5, adding 5 will make it 10.
But it kinda sounds like you just want to use a volume plugin on a bus or the master.
If you have multiple audio clips selected, you can change the gain in the Browser-> Actions or the Controls Panel. Note that if any audio clips already have an altered gain, it will add more. So if gain was at 0, adding 5 will make it 5. If gain was at 5, adding 5 will make it 10.
But it kinda sounds like you just want to use a volume plugin on a bus or the master.
Surely there must be consensus by now...
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- KVRian
- 500 posts since 3 Dec, 2021
If you right click on a volume plugin and select all plugins of the same type you can make an adjustment and every highlighted plugin (all the volume and pans) will change simultaneously. This will not work if you have some of them automated. It will not work as expected if any of the tracks have more than one volume, or if any tracks are bussed through another track (you will in effect get more volume reduction on those tracks)
Another way you can achieve something similar is insert the free Blue Cat gain plugin as the last plugin on all of your tracks (or buses, not both) and use the group or link function so that when you adjust one instance all the linked instances change by the same amount.
Plus Poughs way at audio clip level. The earlier in the signal path you do it, the more you mess up your gain staging going into every plugin after that.
Or just insert a gain plugin first on your master plugin chain and use that to control the level there. That way you preserve all the gain staging before that point. It depends what you're trying to achieve really.
Another way you can achieve something similar is insert the free Blue Cat gain plugin as the last plugin on all of your tracks (or buses, not both) and use the group or link function so that when you adjust one instance all the linked instances change by the same amount.
Plus Poughs way at audio clip level. The earlier in the signal path you do it, the more you mess up your gain staging going into every plugin after that.
Or just insert a gain plugin first on your master plugin chain and use that to control the level there. That way you preserve all the gain staging before that point. It depends what you're trying to achieve really.