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- Hey, in this video we're gonna talk about creating effects
for our tracks that we're working on.
And right now we've got our gravitational sounds
from the previous videos
and also some nicely realistic program drums.
And we're gonna add in some music.
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So we want to put some effects on this
to make the performance more interesting,
so what I'm gonna do, is I'm gonna go into our browser
and get an Audio Effect Rack,
and I'm gonna put it on the Master Track right here.
I like to keep a limiter on the Master Track
just so that I don't have any clipping while I'm performing.
Go to Audio Effect Rack.
So, something I like to do is create a low pass filter
for all my tracks so that I can kind of dull things out.
And I've done that by dropping in Auto Filter
on our Audio Effect Rack.
(electronic beats) We've got control over our filter,
and I'll just play the track.
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So we're cutting out all the high frequencies
with this control.
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Now if you're in a live performance it can be kind of tricky
to navigate to this particular nob
and then put this effect on,
so we're gonna do something that will save us a lot of time,
make it a lot easier, which is map this frequency control
to our Macro in our Audio Effect Rack.
So if we just right click on that frequency nob,
we get Map to Macro One.
I'm gonna select that.
And now we have control over that filter,
using this macro control.
(electronic beats)
Alright, I'm gonna turn the resonance up just a tad
so we can hear that a little more.
Now one of the nice things about Audio Effect Racks is that
we can add more than one effect onto a single control.
So, I'm gonna grab a Reverb and put it
right after our Auto Filter
and it'll sound like this.
(electronic beats)
Now we don't want our Reverb playing the entire time.
I just want it to come on when our Auto Filter's engaged
with our Low Pass Filter.
So I'm gonna go click on the Dry/Wet nob for this,
and also map that to our first Macro nob,
which I've named Low Pass.
And now what happens is that Dry/Wet control over here
is moving with the Macro nob.
Now I don't want it to be at 100%
when the nob is all the way to the right,
when the filter is completely closed,
so I'm gonna go click on Map, and I can change the Dry/Wet
and invert these values so that when the Low Pass control
is the way to the right and the filter's completely open,
there's no Reverb but as I move it down,
we introduce Reverb, and that will sound like this.
(electronic beats)
So we're getting some Reverb as well as the filtering.
What I might even do is I'm gonna take the decay time
on the Reverb and I'm also gonna map that to Macro One,
and I'm gonna have this again also inverted
so that we start out with a very short Reverb,
and then we get to something much longer.
Maybe not 60 seconds, we'll make it about 15 seconds.
And this is what that will sound like.
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That's a great way to kind of wash out your tracks
and create this nice kind of moving away feeling,
as if you're leaving the building
where the music is coming from.
I'm gonna do something similar.
I'm gonna create, now, a High Pass Filter.
I'm gonna go with our Auto Filter again
and put this right after our Reverb
and I'm gonna change the filter from Low Pass to High Pass.
And I'm gonna open that all the way.
And I'm going to map the filter frequency to Macro Two now.
Let's minimize our Reverb and our Low Pass Filter.
So now as I turn this control,
I'm removing the low frequency, so this sounds like this.
(electronic beats)
It's basically the same effect, just in reverse.
I'm gonna rename that High Pass.
And I'm also going to throw in another effect for fun.
We're gonna throw in the Ping Pong Delay
right after the High Pass Filter.
And I'm gonna map the Dry/Wet of the Ping Pong Delay
to the High Pass Control.
And what we get here, now you'll see that
my High Pass Filter is closing, and my delay is opening.
It sounds like this.
(electronic beats)
So we've washed out the sound
and we've got this nice delay going on.
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And now we've got easy access with our controller
if we need to filter something out, I have the Reverb.
We've got that control right here.
Or we got our High Pass Right here.
And this is a lot easier than digging inside all of these
separate devices and you can't turn two nobs at once.
So this is a way to make your effects
very accessible for your performances.