Plug-ins on input console strips

[jeffwhuffman]

I would like to have access to add plug-ins to the input channel strips.  Allowing the use of VST’s similar to outboard hardware.

Edited January 8, 2023 by jeffwhuffman

[reginaldStjohn]

Do you mean the HW output channel strips? If so I think you could do this by just creating a bus for each output you want and then routing the bus to the desired output. The HW outputs just show the signal as it goes to the desired outputs and cakewalk doesn't have direct control of the signal once it leaves the busses and goes into the HW.

[SirWillyDS12]

On 1/7/2023 at 11:40 PM, jeffwhuffman said:

I would like to have access to add plug-ins to the input channel strips.

Yea, I'm fairly sure that you can already do this for all Audio Input tracks by inserting a VST plugin in the FX Rack and turning on Input Echo...  RTFM...

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[Bruno de Souza Lino]

This is a feature that Studio One and had since the beginning. Essentially, it exposes your hardware inputs as channel strips you can access, except you can treat them as tracks and add effects to them. When you record from that track, the effect is printed to the recording as if you had your signal going through external gear before hitting the DAW. You can do this in CbB using either aux tracks or patch points (they're essentially the same thing under the hood), but it requires two tracks and they're only deleted after you detach the aux and patch point and reopen the project.

Edited April 3, 2023 by Bruno de Souza Lino