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2.Pull down the routing pop-up menu for a send by 
clicking in the empty slot, and select the desired routing 
destination.
 If the first item on this menu (“No Bus”) is selected, the send 
isn’t routed anywhere.
 Items called “FX 1”, “FX 2” etc. correspond to existing FX 
tracks. If you renamed an FX track (see “Adding an FX channel 
track” on page 109) that name will appear on this menu in-
stead of the default.
 The menu also allows for routing a send directly to output bus-
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You can also bypass the send effects by clicking the 
“Bypass Inserts” button for the FX channel.
This bypasses the actual send effects which may be used by several dif-
ferent channels. Bypassing a send affects that send and that channel 
only. If you bypass the insert effect the original sound will be passed 
through. This may lead to unwanted side effects (higher volume). To de-
activate all effects, use the mute button in the FX channel.
Setting effect levels
When you have set up...

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Please note that all effects can be edited using a simpli-
fied control panel (horizontal sliders only, no graphics). This 
panel is opened by pressing [Ctrl]/[Command]+[Alt]/[Op-
tion]+[Shift] and clicking on the Edit button for the effect 
send or slot.
Effect control panels may have any combination of knobs, 
sliders, buttons and graphic curves. 
ÖThe included effects and their parameters are de-
scribed in detail in the separate manual “Plug-in Refer-
ence”.
If you edit the...

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The Browser sections
The Presets browser contains the following sections:
The “Search & Viewer” section (displayed by default) 
lists the available presets for the selected effect.
The Filter section (displayed when you click the Cate-
gories button) shows the available preset attributes for the 
selected effect.
If no attributes have been specified for the effect presets, the columns 
will be empty. If attributes have been assigned to a preset for this effect, 
you can click on the...

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About earlier VST effect presets
As stated previously, you can use any VST 2.x plug-ins in 
Cubase Essential. For a description of how to add VST 
plug-ins see “Installing and managing effect plug-ins” on 
page 116.
When you add a VST 2 plug-in, any previously stored pre-
sets for it will be in the old FX program/bank format (.fxp/
.fxb). You can import such files, but the preset handling will 
be slightly different. You will not be able to use the new fea-
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You can use the Preset Management pop-up to save 
your settings as preset, or to rename or remove the cur-
rent preset.
Extracting insert effect settings from track presets
You can extract the effects used in a track preset and load 
them into your inserts “rack”: 
Select “From Track Preset…” on the Preset Manage-
ment pop-up menu to open a dialog where all track pre-
sets are shown.
Select an item in the list to load the effects used in the 
track preset.
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Organizing VST 2 plug-ins
If you have a large number of VST 2 plug-ins, having them 
all on a single pop-up menu in the program may become 
unmanageable. For this reason, the VST 2 plug-ins in-
stalled with Cubase Essential are placed in appropriate 
subfolders according to the effect type.
Under Windows, you can organize VST plug-ins by mov-
ing, adding or renaming subfolders within the Vstplugins 
folder. 
When you launch the program and pull down an effects pop-up menu, 
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About the “shared” plug-ins folder (Windows and VST 
2.x only)
You can designate a “shared” VST 2.x plugins folder. This 
will allow VST 2.x plug-ins to be used by other programs 
that support this standard.
You designate a shared folder by selecting a folder in the 
list and clicking the “Set As Shared Folder” button in the 
VST 2.x Plug-in Paths dialog.
Exporting plug-in information files
You can also save plug-in information as an .xml file, e. g. 
for archiving purposes or...

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Introduction
VST Instruments are software synthesizers (or other sound 
sources) that are contained within Cubase Essential. They 
are played internally via MIDI. You can add effects or EQ to 
VST Instruments, just as with audio tracks.
The VST Instrument HALionOne is included with Cubase 
Essential, others can be purchased separately from Stein-
berg and other manufacturers.
ÖThis chapter describes the general procedures for 
setting up and using VST...