In the previous chapter, we worked with Insert FX, configuring a collection of effects treatments for the channels and sounds in our mix, one at a time.

In this chapter, I’m going to show you the advantage of working with Auxiliary FX, which allow a single effect (like Reverb) to be accessed by multiple sounds. This means that Auxiliary FX are ‘shared’.

An example of this would be if you were writing a Track using a Piano, Strings, Brass and Woodwinds. Usually, we’d hear that combination of sounds in a Concert Hall, so it would make sense to set up one shared Reverb which all of those sounds could access, helping to ‘glue’ them together in one acoustic space. But as we’ll see, Auxiliary FX are useful for mixes of all musical types.

• 00:00 Understanding the difference between Insert and Auxiliary FX
• 01:46 Setting up Auxiliary Bus 
• 04:35 Auxiliary Send control
• 06:32 Chromaverb Wet slider control
• 07:19 Multiple sounds accessing the same Auxiliary reverb
• 09:44 Naming the Auxiliary Bus and Chapter summary

Total Chapter Runtime: 11:33