Hi Steinberg please implement parallel FX chain like this (in a simple way).
example: 2 parallel
the more the merrier
parallel path with independent L-R output
3-4 parallel path
as far as i know S1 and reaper can do this
Thanks.
I’m not sure what S1 and Reaper do differently (have only tried S1 once years ago and haven’t really tried Reaper in general), but can’t you already do this with Cubase? For example, when you split the chain, you could just go with pre-fader sends to multiple FX tracks, setting the track fader itself to negative infinity, then the FX tracks go through whatever chains from there – similar thing if you need to split again somewhere down the line), ultimately sending the outputs of each chain to a group track. I’ve done this for guitar tracks, for example when wanting to use two different amps (and potentially other processing) in parallel.
Hi Rick, yes with multiple tracks you can do this with every DAW. Sometimes, to do this, I use 2 tracks with the same instrument but with different effects plus experiment with FX track return (still got the same result I wanted), but I mean… in a simple way, with simple routing options (Reaper 7 style), or multi-effects pedal style. This is super convenient because it means you can now perform parallel processing within the same track without having to create new tracks (less time-consuming).
As I indicated in my response, I’m not familiar with Reaper (I think I tried it very briefly a long time ago but it just wasn’t user friendly for me at the time as a longtime SONAR user), so I’m clueless how specifically it handles this.
That said, I agree that, if Cubase added a way to do this sort of thing within a single track, it would be useful.
The other way I’ve done this, and within a single track, in Cubase is via Waves StudioVerse Effects (formerly StudioRack). That can host not only Waves, but also third-party VST3 plugins, and has parallel routing options (and also mulitiband split routing where it splits things out by frequency range). The useful thing there, beyond letting this work in a single track, is that you can then save presets with complex configurations to be able to reuse the effects chains easily. They also provide some powerful macro controls to simplify tweaking the most important parameters of individual, or even multiple, plugins within the chain without having to open individual plugins for those that are set up to be controlled by the macro knobs.
Yes, something like that. But the downside is I have to deal with Waves Central. 
Well, I have and use, a lot of Waves plugins, so there isn’t any incremental downside for me. (In general, though, Waves Central was very helpful for making it fairly easy to migrate all of my Waves plugins from my old system to my new system. Whereas, with some other companies’ products I had to uninstall and reinstall every single product.)
I’m using Waves StudioVerse. It’s good. But it doesn’t host Cubase plugins, unfortunately. Also, I don’t remember if the effects within the StudioVerse can get audio sidechain from other plugins….
True (at least for the Cubase plugins that aren’t VST3, which is the majority – I seem to recall there being a few exceptions???).
StudioVerse does accept sidechains into the plugin itself (similar to how a compressor plugin with sidechain capability would). Within StudioVerse, you use the parallel splits to do sidechaining. Here’s a pointer to a demo (with the older name, StudioRack) of adding a sidechain capability to a compressor that (at least at the time) didn’t support sidechaining by using the parallel splits:
