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I bought a Luna II some time ago, but find both the routing window and the manual pretty daunting...

I basically want to achieve the following two things: 1. Route single tracks from Tracktion2 through insert effects (compression and filtering are the ones I'm most interested in). 1. Set up Masterverb as a send, and again route stuff to it from T2. In both cases I want to record the output in T2, so I guess that's both Asio source and dest, right?

However, that's where my knowledge stops, I'm afraid... How do I access single tracks from T2 in the routing window (or Renoise or FL Studio, which I also use)? How do I set up a send effect?

I guess these things are really basic stuff, but I have no idea where to start, and I would be incredibly grateful if someone could point me in the right direction...

yours noobily

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well, it's actually pretty simple once you got behind the idea that:

what you want to send from the sequencer to the DSP card, comes into SFP as an ASIO source channel
the processed result is returned to the sequencer by an ASIO destination channel

for example if you record 4 stereo tracks to channels ASIO 1-8
you might setup ASIO 9-12 as an FX bus (4 Aux) to send and return from the DSP card (or any other number that makes sense for you)

cheers, Tom

Hi, I dont have Traktion....but the principle should essentially be the same, hope this helps anyway:

The ASIO modules in pulsar have options for the number of inputs/outputs. (right click the module)

The ASIO source module in particular needs to have as many available channells as you want outputs from FL or Traktion.

These ASIO source module outputs are then connected to the pulsar mixer input channels. This will allow you to individually monitor and manipulate individual outputs from Traktion or FL in the pulsar mixer. Then on the pulsar channels you can insert compression or add effects etc. I presume that in FL or TR you have options to select ouputs for individual channels (possibly on the mixer page) here you will need to select outputs that correspond with the ASIO source module.

Also you need to wire a couple of BUS outputs from the Pulsar mixer to the inputs of your ASIO dest module. This will allow you to send audio back to FL or TR. Once wired, you then select the channel/channels that you want to record (on the pulsar mixer) and activate the bus to route the audio to the bus you wired to the ASIO dest module (1&2 for example) This will then make that audio available at the input of FL or TR. Again you will have to select the correct ASIO channels option as a source in FL or TR. Note, make sure that when you record audio back in to FL or TR that the channel you are recording on to, is not set to output on an ASIO channel that is BUSsed to the ASIO dest , This will cause a loop...not good!

The key here, is that Pulsar is acting like an external hardware mixer and FL or TR as your recording/playback device. Try to imagine it as such and the principles become a bit easier to grasp.

The FX send is most simply wired as follows:

Wire aux1 output from pulsar mixer to input L of you preferred reverb module.
Wire reverb out L & R to mixer aux return channels 1 L & R.

On the mixer activate the send and return channels and your done.
Again, to record the reverb make sure you select the return channels BUS routing to correspond with your ASIO dest module.

Hopefully that'll get you going, good luck

Thanks a lot guys, I've already made much progress thanks to you. Things got a lot easier, all of a sudden..

Oh, and Masterverb sounds smashing

*inserts imaginary hugs smiley*


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