Visualize And Render FX/Group Waveform

[harenge]

Big fan of Cubase 14 Pro, here’s how I think it can be even better:

• Visualize the FX/Group channel waveform.
• Make it possible to render the FX/Group channel to offload CPU power.
  A workaround is to record the FX/Group on an audio channel, but that feels inconvenient and relies on real-time processing.

[Johnny_Moneto]

@harenge

but that feels inconvenient and relies on real-time processing.

We just had the topic. Of course you can render the FX or Group track non-real-time onto an audio track.

Please look if any of these two solutions works for you:

How do I record just the effect onto a separate track?

Well, the by far easiest solution is to set up your locators and then go to File → Export → Audio Mixdown In “Channel Selection” select the Effect track as the one to be rendered. In “After Export” select to “Create Audio Track”.

How do I record just the effect onto a separate track?

What @Googly_Smythe wrote is the tried and tested realtime recording of the effect channel. You can also use Render in Place. Pre-requisite: You have your Audio track for the guitar. You have an Effect track and the guitar audio track sends its signal via a Send. What you do: create another Audio track set its input to the Effect track create an empty audio part on the track by drawing it with the mouse; this part marks the duration of the “recording”, so make it as long as you nee…

[harenge]

Thanks for your quick reply.

The After Export function is a possible workaround indeed but it’s a bit flawed for my workflow with the goal of reducing CPU usage.

It’s not an ideal workflow because:

1. Unlike Render-In-Place, it doesn’t keep the Channel settings and is not automatically matched to the length.
2. The exported channels still need to be manually disabled to reduce CPU usage.