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-title: Inserts
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-<p>
- <dfn>Inserts</dfn> are signal tap points that can be placed anywhere
- inside a channel strip. Unlike Auxes, they will interrupt the signal flow,
- feeding the signal from before the insert point to its <dfn>Insert
- send(s)</dfn>, and connecting the remainder of the channel strip to the
- <dfn>Insert return(s)</dfn>, both of which are JACK ports which are
- visible to other JACK applications.
-</p>
-<p>
- Inserts are the JACK equivalents of normalized switching jacks on an
- analog console.
-</p>
-<p>
- An insert allows you to either use a special external DSP JACK
- application that is not available as a plugin, or to splice an external
- analog piece of gear into your channel strip, such as a vintage
- compressor, tube equalizer, etc. In the latter case, you would first
- connect your inserts to a pair of hardware ports, which are in turn
- connected to the outboard gear.
-</p>
-<p>
- To disable (bypass) an insert, click on its LED in the processor box.
-</p>
-<p class="note">
- When you create an insert, the signal will be interrupted until you make
- the relevant connections to the insert ports!
-</p>
-<p class="note">
- Inserts will incur an additional JACK period of latency, which can be
- measured and compensated for during mixing, but not during tracking!
-</p>