I created a VST rack and separate midi tracks from this so I could use one drum kit VST and change all the drum sounds at the same time.
The problem is I can’t add the effects to the individual midi tracks (e.g. can’t eq just the kick).
Is there a way I can add effects to each part of the drum kit without creating a separate VST drum kit for each part?
- enable multi out (do this on the vst window (F11) its a button next to the plugin)
- go to your plugin and assign each sound to the desired output
- goto ur mixer (F3) you will see each on their own channel (hide the midi channels in the mixer to see it easier)Lets say you are using Groove agent… select the track with groove agent on it. then the left side of cubase main window go to the INSPECTOR tab, then below the midi in is the outputs for the vst. click on the little arrow beside the name of the vst and a drop down menu show show you all the outputs available and just activate as many as you need. Then in groove agent right click on a pad and assign it to the out put you want. Then you can hide the midi tracks in your mixer (if you want) and it will show the audio outs… and off you go. Hope i explained well enough.
Most drum VSTs / instruments have the option to route each individual part to different channels (“how to” depends if it’s through Kontakt or stand alone ones like Addictive Drums, Superior Drummer, etc, but there are plenty of Youtube videos explaining how to do this). Now, in case you are trying to insert an effect to a MIDI channel and you don’t find the option in the main view, you can always do this in the mixer view (F3 key).
There are many ways of doing this.
What I do, no matter what drum vst I use, is I get the overall sound on the drum vst sounding as good as I can without any eq, compression or any effects at all, just the best sound that comes from the vst.
Then bounce every mic into it’s own wav track, individually solo and go one by one, solo tracks for the individual mics and a stereo track for the room mics L & R.
There you have it, perfectly tracked drums into wav tracks for you to eq, compress and add any effect you want, then mix it as you please like a pro would.
This saves a hell of a lot of memory, even though I don’t need to save the memory with 128gig, but it still gives you room to assign that memory and power to other midi tracks and add effects onto those so everything still runs smooth.