Hello all!
I have a Lexicon hardware effects unit (or if you call it “outboard gear” or whatever ppl call these).
It’s a Lexicon MX400XL with “Dual Stereo”…
With this “reverb-unit” I can use two stereo FX channels (External FX) at the same time, which is pretty cool!
Below I try to explain how I added the hardware reverb on my drums - Snare & Toms (also, screenshots are from Cubase Pro 10).
- First I setup the Audio Connections of the hardware in Cubase. I call them “Lex A” and “Lex B”.
- Then create two FX channels and insert the External FX on those.
- Then making the Sends from those FX channels to the instruments I want the Reverb-effects on. And now I can hear the reverb when playing the drums in Cubase. But now I wanna move onto recording those effects on Audio Tracks in Cubase…
- First I remove the “Output routing” to “no bus” on the FX channels.
- Then I create two Audio Tracks in Stereo and add the “Input routings” from Lex A and Lex B and the “Output routings” to Master.
- Then I just arm those two Audio Tracks and press Record in Cubase and let it record through-out the whole song to the end (it has to be in “real time”).
That’s about it! I’m also adding screenshots you can have a look at to decide what to do!
I’m also adding a two links to YouTube-videos where you can hear the drums with and without the Lexicon effects (on the Snare & Toms). I’m using EZDrummer 2 as the drum sound, though I havn’t worked much on it yet… Just to give you some audio examples of the effects using this hardware unit (Lexicon MX400XL).
/Many regards from Robin Gardner.