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Moving Inserts by Dragging
You can move inserts from one location to another simply by clicking and dragging to a new location. Using this technique, you can move an effect from one channel to another, or swap or move the location of an effect on a channel to another insert position on that channel (displacing the plugin already present). Note that, at this time, you can’t use this technique to copy tracks to busses or
vice versa.
Copying and Pasting Effects
You can copy entire effect chains with their specific effect parameters intact, track by track. Let’s say that you’ve created a plugin chain on a dialogue track that has Noise Reduction, a De-Hummer, and a Dynamics plugin that you have tweaked to the exact settings needed for those dialogue recordings to sound great.
You also have another track that has similar recordings that could benefit from the exact same chain of plugins and those particular settings. Rather than install each plugin to the track and redo the settings, you can simply right-click the track header (A1 for example) and click Copy. Then go to the track header of the new track you want effected, right-click, and click Paste. You will now have the identical plugin chain copied over to the new track, all with each of the settings exactly as you had created on the source plugin dialogue track
Copying and Pasting Effect Settings
If you have a setting for one effect that you spent a lot of time getting right and see that it could also work just as well on another track’s effect, you can copy and paste just those settings.
For example, you have a Reverb on a dialogue track that you have tweaked to perfection. You see that those exact settings will work well for another dialogue track that is on your timeline. Rather than try to recreate those settings, you can duplicate them.
— Hold down the option key and drag the Reverb plugin you want to copy to a new location. This creates a copy at the new location and leaves the original intact.
— Alternatively, you can use Copy and Paste in the plugin three dot Options menu. To apply those settings to the other track, just click Copy from the Options menu of the source Reverb effect, then open the Reverb plugin window of the destination Reverb effect, and click the Options menu to paste. Now all of the parameters are the identical between the two plugins.
TIP: You can create and load presets for entire channel strips and use them in any project or timeline using the Fairlight > Presets Library.
TIP: You can create and load presets for entire channel strips and use them in any project or timeline using the Fairlight > Presets Library.
TIP: You can create and load presets for entire channel strips and use them in any project or timeline using the Fairlight > Presets Library.
For more information on using audio effects, see Chapter 176, “Audio Effects.”