Roland Studio Package Pro owner manual Applying an External Effect

Advanced Uses

Applying an External Effect

Here’s how you can use an external effect with SONAR. You will use a SONAR Virtual Main bus as the external effect send, and send audio signals from the tracks for processing by the external effect.

■Connect the External Effects Processor to the SI-24

1.Connect the SI-24’s AUX 1 (OUTPUT 3 / 4) to the input of your external effects processor.

2.Connect the output(s) of your external effects processor to the input(s) of the SI-24, and use the gain knob(s) to adjust the input gain.

■Set a SONAR Bus as the External Effect Send

3.In the Track view, click the Out dropdown menu of the Aux 1. You may need to enlarge the Aux 1 to show the Out control: In Aux 1, click the “Restore Strip Size” button to expand the bus.

4.Select the output to “B.”

■Send the Signal from Each Track to the External Effect

5.In a track view that you want to patch through Aux 1, click the “Aux 1 Send Enable” button (lit green). You may need to enlarge a track to show the “Aux 1 Send Enable” button: In a track, click the “Restore Strip Size” button to expand the bus.

6.Use the SI-24’s [CH SELECT] to select the track to which you want to apply the effect (lit red).

7.Turn the SI-24’s [SEND/EQ] on (lit red), and use the SEND knob to adjust the amount of signal that is sent to the external effect.

If you have not made RPC-1 mixer settings so that you can monitor the SI-24’s inputs “Step 4: Making RPC-1 Settings” (p. 14), you will not be able to monitor the effect- on at this point.

Use the output level of your external effects processor to adjust the effect return level. Although it is possible to adjust the return level using the RPC-1 mixer, the level adjustment in this case will not affect what is recorded on the tracks, so you will need to re-adjust the level of the effect sound after recording it on the tracks.

The output of an external effect can be recorded on a track in the same way as when recording a conventional track.

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