if you find a plugin combination that works great on vocals, guitars, drums or whatever
you're probably going to want to use those settings again especially if it's on
projects within the same album or ep that way you can keep the same sound across all of the songs
now you could just go in and save the presets into each of those plugins and then bring each
of those plugins back up into another project and load up those presets now that takes some time
what we can do in Tracktion Waveform is save all of the plugins with all of the settings into a rack
and then quickly load that rack up into another project and it's going to save you a lot of time
speed up your workflow and it's very easy to do once we get this set up so that's what we're going
to check out right now now on this project i'm just going to focus on this guitar bus this is a
work in progress song so there's not a whole lot going on here but i do have a couple of plugins
that i really like on this guitar bus and you can see it's the R-EQ or Renaissance EQ from Waves and
also this V-EQ or Vintage EQ from Waves so now let's say I really like this combination and i
want to use it across several tracks on an album that i'm working on or just on singles that i'm
working on i want to quickly load up these settings now i'm not going to include this
last one here because this is just a send and it's sending to another track i might not do that in
another project so i'm not including that just the two eqs that i have on here so what i want to do
is click on the first one hold down control on my computer keyboard click on the second one so
they're both highlighted like that right click on either of them and then i want to go down to
wrap these plugins in a new rack plugin so here we are in our rack plugin and it might
look a little overwhelming at first but really it's not you just have to picture this like it's
an actual studio and these are actual hardware units so with this we have stereo inputs going to
left and this one's going to the right and then that's going out from the first EQ into the second
eq here left and right and then it's going to our output which is going to our master track or
mix bus so just picture these lines here as cables in your actual studio and these are hardware units
you don't really have to worry about this red cable here because that's for midi and we're just
working on effects here that don't use midi but it's attached anyway and if this is what you want
we could just save this by clicking on save create new preset and i'm going to call this guitar bus
one actually i'll call it guitar bus eq there we go so i'm going to show you how you can also add
more effects in here because if you load it up onto another project you might need something
else in there like a compressor or maybe some modulation something else you can add more effects
in here and i'll show you that in a second but let's just look at loading this up onto another
track so i'm going to close that down open another track now what we want to do on this new track is
you can right click here add plug-in to left and then you want to go to plug-in racks you can see
here i have a guitar bus wrapper but that's not the one that i saved so i want to go to
new from preset and you can scroll down here and you can see guitar bus eq that's the one i saved
i'm going to click on that it loads up our guitar bus wrapper and there's our two plugins in here
and if we want to change the settings you just click on the plugins in here and it brings up
the user interface for each of the plugins when you click on them now what if on this new track
i want to add a compressor in there so what we'll do is we can just right click in here add plugin
and then you can just go through here and find the plug-in that you want if you're
using Waveform 12 you can easily search for the plugin so that's what I'm going to do right now
and i'm going to use CLA 76 stereo but you can see it's not attached to anything
so how do we attach it to where we want it now first we got to decide where do we want it i want
it at the end but you could put it in between if you want and you can see we can move these around
but i want it at the end here so i'm just going to move this kind of down here so you can see what
I'm doing but you can move this wherever you want actually I'll move it up here and what we want to
do now is just click on this line here you can see it looks like the full cable is connected
to that point right there so we'll click on this cable we're going to drag it to the input here
which is the left input so left out to left input and then we'll do the same for the right
and we'll connect it to the right now we need to connect the outputs so i'll move this back down
and we'll click on that node go left to left right to right like that and now we have a compressor
plugin in our chain and there's so many other routing possibilities that you can do with plugin
racks this is just sort of the basic idea now say you wanted to clear all of the wiring you
could easily do that by going to clear all wiring and that would clear everything if you wanted to
start from scratch or maybe you want to clear all input wiring so if we click on that you can see
it clears our inputs and we could do everything ourself there are lots of possibilities with this
plugin rack this is just sort of the basics of it to get you started now become a Waveform
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like this thank you so much for watching for Audio Tech TV I'm Zane keep creating and we'll talk soon