From: Alexandre Prokoudine
+ When an insert is created, the signal will be interrupted until the relevant + connections to the insert ports are made! +
+ +
While jack ports are visible to other JACK applications, ALSA ports are only
useful for patching in audio equipment external to the computer. If inserting
a software processor is required, a plugin would be the first choice. If a plugin
is not available then the jackd audio backend would have to be used. This is
not very common any more but there are some older jack clients that require
- using jack.
+ using jack.
+
Inserts work the same as the inserts on analog consoles except they are not normalled like most jacks on an analog console.
@@ -20,16 +30,29 @@ analog piece of gear into a channel strip, such as a vintage compressor, tube equalizer, etc. In the latter case, the inserts would first be connected to a pair of hardware ports, which are in turn connected to the - outboard gear. + outboard gear. This is done on the Send/Output and + Return/Input tabs of the Insert + dialog respectively. + + +- Disabling (bypassing) an insert is done by clicking on its LED in the processor box. -
-- When an insert is created, the signal will be interrupted until the relevant - connections to the insert ports are made! + Apart from providing access to the connections matrix, the dialog allows adjusting + the output gain and toggling phase inversion for Send/Output, as well as measuring + and adjusting latency for the insert.
+Inserts will incur an additional period of latency, which can be measured and compensated for during mixing, but not during tracking!
+ ++ Disabling (bypassing) an insert is done by clicking on its LED in the processor box. +
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