filtering question

[younggolfjedi]

okay so i have about 12 individual tracks that make up this little electronic beat i made. then i put an AutoFilter on the Output track/channel?..just to layer it with another filter effect. now i want to add a sound affect thats not affected by the previous filter. i want to add the crackles and shhses of vinyl spinning...to make the whole track sound like its being played from a salty 7inch or something. is there a way i make a track 'ontop' .. of the output track..? or how else could i accomplish this sound without it being affected by the filter on the output track/channel

 

thanks.

[David Nahmani]

What you want to achieve is called parallel processing: you're sending your signal to two different channel strips (Aux) in parallel, each Aux gets a different effect, and then you're summing both Auxes.

 

So set the outputs of all your channel strips to a bus, say "Bus 10". Logic should automatically create an Aux with its input set to Bus 10. Create another Aux with its input set to Bus 10 as well, put the different effects on the two Aux channel strips and have fun.

[younggolfjedi]

awesome. i think i can do that. thanks for the speedy reply, boss. much appreciated.

 

 

edit; damn. maybe i should have said 'sample a vinyl spinning'.. its not an effect. its an apple loop?

but still i cant set or find a SEND box on the output strip

[David Nahmani]

It doesn't matter, audio or software instrument channel strips, set their output to a bus. The output is the second box down from where it says "I/O" on your channel strips.

[younggolfjedi]

the thing is i dont see a Send box..in the strip on the output channel. i saw it on all the other tracks but its not on the output.. and its check off and everything..there just a grey empty space where the boxes would be on any of the other tracks.

[David Nahmani]

Not on the output though, only on the original channel strips: the audio tracks and the software instrument tracks that you want to process. Their outputs is to a bus, that bus is received by two Auxes, and those Auxes' outputs are set to Stereo Out. There's no output box on the Stereo Out because it's an output channel strip, it controls the output itself.

[younggolfjedi]

the thing is i dont see a Send box..in the strip on the output channel. i saw it on all the other tracks but its not on the output.. and its check off and everything..there just a grey empty space where the boxes would be on any of the other tracks.

[Mehdi]

the thing is i dont see a Send box..in the strip on the output channel. i saw it on all the other tracks but its not on the output..

 

You can't because there isn't .

You can't send the signal of the output 1-2 of another channel because this very channel will in a way or another be back to the output, thus creating loop/feed back.

 

I think you're confusing the output of the audio/instrument tracks, that indicates the signal flow after that track, with the output channel (to call it differently) of Logic, which is always the last step of that signal chain to get sound out of Logic.

 

You set the output of the inst tracks in the box right above the volume fader. As said in David's second post.

 

Hope this helped.

 

is there a way i make a track 'ontop' .. of the output track..? or how else could i accomplish this sound without it being affected by the filter on the output track/channel

 

thanks.

 

Hopefully all your tracks don't go directly to the output 1-2? In that case, you'll have to make them go thru another bus before getting to the output 1-2.

Busses allow for sending signal elsewhere.

So you set the output of the final bus to out put 1-2, and create an aux track, with that final bus as Input, and the output 1-2 as an output. You put your effect on that aux track.

[David Nahmani]

A picture speaks 1,000 words...

 

Here I am doing parallel processing (compressing and AutoFiltering) on 3 audio tracks and 3 instrument tracks. Note that no sends are used at any time.

[younggolfjedi]

output 21 was the last place i added effects."audio 5 23" is the track i want above the output track so that its not affected by the autofilter on output 21

[Eriksimon]

It seems Aux 2/Bus 2 has a a send to itself. That seems like asking for trouble to me...

[David Nahmani]

younggolfjedi, I'm not sure I understand your routing on your picture, but it looks nothing like what I suggested. Look at my picture and check the I/O settings on all channels.

[younggolfjedi]

i know..im testing your patience here..but now i cant take off the bus 2 sends under audio 5 23 and aux 2. i can choose to add another send but i cant seem to delete the Bus 2 box..

 

david, i see your picture but i dont see its connection to what im trying to do. i think i understand the purpose of the Bus sending but once ive chosen a filter for the Aux1 how can i make more tracks ontop of that Aux-track that arent affected by the autofilter?...maybe im not wording this correctly..

[Eriksimon]

i know..im testing your patience here..but now i cant take off the bus 2 sends under audio 5 23 and aux 2. i can choose to add another send but i cant seem to delete the Bus 2 box..

 

Nonsense... just Longclick and choose No Send

[younggolfjedi]

ah, i see. ok lol. that takes care of that problem. thanks. so how would i set up the sends so that the Audio track 5 23 isnt affected by the autofilter on the Output21

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