CHAPTER 13

Plug-ins and Outboard Equipment

CHAPTER CONTENTS

Plug-ins

Outboard Equipment

The graphic equalizer

The compressor/limiter

Echo and reverb devices

Digital reverb

Multi-effects processors

Frequency shifter

Digital delay

Miscellaneous devices

Connection of Outboard Devices

PLUG-INS

Plug-ins are now one of the fastest-moving areas of audio development, providing audio signal processing and effects that run either on a workstation’s CPU or on dedicated DSP. (The hardware aspects of this were described in Chapter 9.) Audio data can be routed from a sequencer or other audio application, via an API (application programming interface) to another software module called a ‘plug-in’ that does something to the audio and then returns it to the source ...

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