The world of Live sound is going digital. Just like studios made the transition from hardware to software, today the same change is taking place in Live sound. And Waves is leading the way. A true Live sound breakthrough, MultiRack is a software host that lets FOH and Monitor engineers run multiple simultaneous instances of the same Native Waves plug-ins used in recording studios and mixing rooms the world over.
Armed only with a laptop, an I/O box, and MultiRack, you now have the power to shape your Live sound with unprecedented precision, and do away with rack after rack of heavy effects units. Just imagine: The world’s best-sounding reverbs, equalizers, compressors, limiters, and delays at your fingertips, without the limitations of hardware, and at a fraction of the cost. With easy setup and advanced preset capabilities, MultiRack delivers all the flexibility and portability of software, with sound quality and convenience that beats hardware.
- Take Studio Sound to the Stage and Back Again
- Quick & Simple Setup
- A Fraction of the Cost of Hardware
- Simple Routing: No Cabling, No Rack Mounting, No Trucking
- Full Recall, Full Control
- Set and save presets and snapshots per song and song sections
- Windows & OS X Compatible
Overview
There are 4 basic components in a MultiRack setup.
- Plug-ins process the audio: compressors, EQs, delays, etc.
- Snapshots are presets which store your plug-in and Rack settings.
- Racks, like hardware, hold multiple plug-in processors.
- Sessions store the settings for all plug-ins, Racks, and Snapshots, as well as information about the setup design and signal flow.
To get started, here’s all you need to do:
1. Connect Your Console to an External I/O or Sound Card
MultiRack signal flow, to and from your console, is similar to hardware—some connections will be from aux sends on your console, with returns on the faders; others connections will be from channel inserts. You can also connect via a patch bay or router.
2. Create a Session and Set Preferences
A Session is a collection of Racks, each of which contains plug-in processors. A Session holds your setup design; I/O routing and levels; the number of Racks and plug-ins; their order and their settings. Normally, a Session will contain the setup for an entire show, while Snapshots are used to change settings between or within songs.
3. Add Racks and Set Signal Flow
A Rack is a chain of plug-ins used to process audio signals, whether mono, stereo, or mono-to-stereo. With hardware, signals flow from a console’s channel insert or aux track, are processed with outboard gear, and then return to the console. MultiRack follows the same principle, except that processing takes place in virtual Racks filled with software plug-ins instead of hardware racks.
The first step in building a MultiRack processing setup is to create empty Racks, into which you load plug-ins. Set the input and output channels for the Racks you’ve created.
4. Add Plug-ins for Sound Processing
Once you’ve created Racks and assigned their I/O channels, it’s time to add plug-ins to each Rack. Each Rack can hold up to eight plug-ins, and the signal always flows from left-to-right. You can always rearrange the plug-in order by clicking and dragging.
5. Create Snapshots for Easy Recall
Snapshots are used to save settings for songs and sections within songs. A Snapshot is sort of a “super preset,” a picture of all of the Racks in your Session. Snapshots are contained and saved as part of your Session file. A single Session file can contain up to 1000 Snapshots.
6. Organize Racks into Groups
Since each MultiRack Session can hold up to 64 Racks, you can organize similar Racks into groups to better manage your Session. Grouping Racks offers several advantages:
- You can group similar Racks together (such as all drum channels), and they will share a common group name.
- Groups are color-coded, making visual identification of similar Racks much easier.
- Since software processing can cause latency, you can align the latency per group.
7. Overview Window
Once you’ve loaded several Racks, you’ll want a convenient way to watch everything happening within your processing environment. The Overview Window displays a condensed view of each Rack, so you can keep an eye on the entire processing setup.
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