Like most of you, I imagine, I've created a song template with a dozen instrument/synth tracks, vocal tracks, and a few for guitars/acoustic guitars (all color-coded). This way you can get to work right away without having to create tracks as you go, with compressors and e.q. already in.
For effects (other than comp/e.q.), I've just been pulling in plugins as I need them, but I'm now wanting to make that "practical," as well, by having all the affects I use within easy(ier) reach, as opposed to clicking, going down to the AU menu, then to the manufacturer, then the plugin.
This morning I loaded up all the affects I want to use on multiple busses (I think Logic only allows 15 plugins) - several instances, so that, for example, the same 15 effects show up on several busses so that each instrument has access to its own bus, because rarely would I used the same effect (delay or glitch type of effect) on multiple instruments. While they're all loaded on busses, they're also all disabled, so that I can enable whichever effect I choose.
The reason I put them on busses, is because when I tried to load 15 of them on the instrument's list of plugins, Logic would close when I tried to open an instrument.
That said, I wasn't able to play around with it more than a couple of minutes before I had to go to work, so I don't know how this affects how Logic will run.
Does anyone have a better way to have effects at hand in the template, without having to go through the menu system every time?
Best way to access effects in Logic using template?
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- KVRAF
- 37519 posts since 14 Sep, 2002 from In teh net
Firstly you do know you can reorganise the preset menus so that plugins are not nested so deep? Just go into the plugin manager and drag them into more sensible categories so you don't have to dive into several levels but just one.
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- KVRian
- Topic Starter
- 807 posts since 7 Aug, 2015 from H2O
Yes, though I'm looking for an even more at-hand method. I realize that it only takes less than ten seconds to pull up an effect, so this is rather reflective of how technology has me/us searching for any method that will make what we want even more accessible than what it is now. That's why I prepopulated my instrument tracks with a comp and e.q., so that I don't have to pull them up every time for every track. With effects, though, often I'll go through many effects to find what I'm either looking for or that "surprise" that fits perfectly - and that can be a lot of mouse clicking in the menus and searching. The more I can focus on music and the less on the clicking of that confounded mouse that often clicks on the wrong things, the better.aMUSEd wrote:Firstly you do know you can reorganise the preset menus so that plugins are not nested so deep? Just go into the plugin manager and drag them into more sensible categories so you don't have to dive into several levels but just one.
Maybe what I've got right now will work. If it does, then I'll create two busses per synth track (I only made four pairs this morning - I usually don't use more than 4-6, sometimes 8-10 synths in a song), which will give me access to all the effects I need for each synth. Under the instrument track, I did place my u-he effects with no problem, so that puts all my other effects in the bus lanes.