Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

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lookwhaticando
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Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by lookwhaticando » Sat Aug 06, 2011 6:40 pm

Hey -
I did a search but could not find anything on this... maybe I was wording it incorrectly... if I was, sorry.

Anyways, I was curious if there is a way to add an instance of a plug-in - i.e. an EQ-8 or Spectrum - to all of my audio tracks at once.

I'm not looking to set up a return/bus track, as I want a separate instance of a plug-in on each track, so I can EQ/analyze each track independently.

Basically, I'm just looking to not have to drag an EQ-8 to each track, one-by-one.

Help?

Thanks.

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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by sm2651999 » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:01 pm

Set up one track how you want it then ctrl d / cmd d to duplicate as many as you want.

lookwhaticando
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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by lookwhaticando » Sat Aug 06, 2011 7:11 pm

That's a good idea, but if I already have a project going with a ton of tracks, this won't really help a whole lot...

That IS a really good idea for a fresh project, though.

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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by sm2651999 » Sat Aug 06, 2011 8:55 pm

Another way which works a bit faster than click and drag would be keyboard shortcuts in the form of ctrl/cmd c then ctrl/cmd v - works a treat for me.

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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by DeMarzo » Tue Aug 15, 2017 4:32 pm

Hey bro. One way around this is to add whatever effect you want into the returns tracks and then you can batch change the input on each track by highlighting all the tracks! hope this helps

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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by Stromkraft » Tue Aug 15, 2017 6:52 pm

lookwhaticando wrote:I was curious if there is a way to add an instance of a plug-in - i.e. an EQ-8 or Spectrum - to all of my audio tracks at once.
The natural way would be to select all tracks where you want the device/plug-in and then drag this to one of them, which should, like with many other multi-selected tracks operations, do the same thing — adding said device/plug-in in this case — on all selected tracks.

But no.
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mndmnky
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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by mndmnky » Wed Sep 09, 2020 10:18 am

Would be nice if there was a batch add functionality.

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Re: Multiple tracks - Inserting plug-in to all tracks at once?

Post by S4racen » Thu Sep 10, 2020 3:07 pm

I believe thats possible with ClyphX Pro....

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