A plugin container by Steinberg would be an extremely ragged solution as you can’t see what plugins you inserted from the mixer view.
A professional solution would be this:
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BTW…
Pro Tools has 10 (!) inserts - for all (!) FX (incl. Phase, Gain, Lo/HiCuts, EQ etc <= as separate insert plugins!
And no one has complained about that.
Nonetheless, a few years ago PT has only 5 (!!) inserts…
Strictly speaking, Cubase has 18 FX (Pre section Hi/LoCuts, Gain, Phase, + 8 Inserts, + Channel EQ, + Strips…) = per channel.
There is a pretty huge difference between 6 (freezable) inserts and 10. Those 4 extra inserts would solve 80% of the issues I bump up against.
It’s not unreasonable to have (brands of one’s own choosing): console emulation, channel strip, peak-check-channel-limiter, virtual tape.
Now we only have two slots left.
It’s not uncommon to use yet another compressor chain of an 1176 and la2a after the channel strip, so there’s your “two more” with now all six freezable slots used up. So forget anything creative or crazy on top of just getting dynamics and EQ dialed in.
Oh, and forget trim controls between those plugins – so hope the input drive modeling and gain staging works without intervention.
If I had 4 more inserts , in this example of six filled, that would effectively solve my issues (trim plugin gottchas aside).
Hi,
I need more than 6 inserts that can be frozen in a single channel - why can’t Cubase work like Logic - just add an insert as you need it, there should not be a maximum and if there was one it should be at least 12 - or set up as a preset for the project - set your maximum inserts (the ones that can be frozen)
Alexa D.
Because it´s Cubase and therefore works like Cubase…
Which is pretty much why I bought SoundToys a whole bunch of good quality plugins inside its own rack taking up just one precious slot.