29 Tracktion FX Video Lecture | Tracktion 5 Tutorial: Master Music Editing - Video & Sound Editing

in this video we're going to take a look
at the built-in effects in traction 5
the built-in effects are really quite
simple and their kind of elements you
can use as building blocks they become
really important when we're working with
rack effects which we'll cover in a
later series but right now I want to
take a look at what the effects are how
you find them in the system to see what
the traction effects are you can grab
the plug-in object drop it on a track
and you'll see the traction plugins
listed right here now the volume and pan
is the same thing as this right here
where you've got a volume and a pan
control you could drop multiples of
these into your track if you need to you
could kind of use it as a gain stage to
adjust the level between plugins you can
also add a level meter anywhere you'd
like
there's a nice 4-band equalizer and then
basic reverb a basic delay a chorus a
phaser there's a basic compressor a
pitch shifter this is a high pass or low
pass filter and so those make up the
basic things that we're gonna talk about
there's also a text let me just show you
that right away if you add a text
plug-in then all you do is you can give
it a name gtr2
and to say this was and you can just
type in any notes that you want related
to the track or any notes at all that
you want to remind you or explain the
setup in any way also you could just use
it to label things up in here if you
want as well because the name appears
right on that plug-in so that's the text
plug-in it doesn't make any sound
and all you can really do is add it add
text to it and delete it it's great now
you can also add plugins from the
browser so if you open the browser if
it's not open go to the plugins tab if
you expand it enough you'll see that
there's a manufacturer if you click on
that will sort it by manufacturer and if
you come down here to where it says
traction then you'll see all of the
traction software plugins another way to
do that is just search by typing in the
word traction like this
so let's take a look at the four band
equalizer so I'll select the four band
equalizer and drag it and drop it on my
lead part right here now you can see how
you work with the equalizer is you can
grab here and drag and this actually
sets the Q and this sets the gain so if
we set the gain like this to create a
shelf then grab outside into the circle
here and start to basically move around
you can then adjust the Q so that allows
you to put in a shelf drag that shelf or
if we wanted to really more or less cut
in this area we can put in a kind of a
gentle shelf like this grab that note
and then we can kind of filter out the
low-end since we probably don't need a
lot of low end of this solo and then if
you wanted to find another frequency to
emphasize in there you can just pick
another band and tighten this up and
then as it plays back sweep around till
we find something that we want to
emphasize
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so that's really how it works it's very
simple it's really easy to use so you
could just basically set the queue here
you set the gain up and down you set the
frequency dragging left and right on
these nodes and if you get a set up you
like then you can save a preset so you
can create a new preset it set the for
band equalizer I can just say this is
the guitar EQ optional description you
can also put in some tags we'll call it
EQ and then click OK and then that
preset will be available here in the
preset browser so if I took like filter
by EQ you'll see here's my preset that I
just created and this works for all of
the plugins so that's kind of how the EQ
works let's take a look at the reverb
I'm gonna drop the reverb on here as
well and you can see the reverb gives
you room size damping a wet/dry mix
let's play it back
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now these don't have fancy user
interfaces it's really just sliders here
but it is really effective and it's kind
of refreshing in a way to see just a
very straightforward set of controls and
gives you a wide variety of reverb
sounds so that's reverb let's take a
look at the delay its add a delay after
the reverb just for interest and here we
can just adjust the reverb time the
amount of feedback and then the mix
basically you can also set it to beat
sync so I'll play it back and show you
some of these
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now you'll notice it's just a man or
delay now there is a way to configure
two of these into a rack in order to
make it into a stereo delay we'll be
getting into that in the special
traction series on racks that's coming
up so let's take a look at the chorus
will add the chorus in here as well and
the chorus has a width so basically a
course is a modulating low delay that
you mix in with the dry signal
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and let's try putting the chorus on one
of these guitar parts instead of on this
particular part we can move any of these
to another part by just dragging it like
that and now we've moved it to the other
part and we'll all the solo this out so
that gives you an idea of chorus let's
put the phaser on the other one phaser
is a phase shifter it works a little bit
differently it's gives you a little more
swirly kind of a sound so I'll solo this
track and put the phaser on it
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we can easily change the order of these
by just grab any of them and drag them
to change the order now we'll take a
look at the compressor limiter I'm going
to put this on the drums and before the
compressor I'm going to add another
level meter and then I'll move our
native level meter after it because the
compressor is really fairly basic
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alright so the compressor in and of
itself doesn't have metering built-in so
you really kind of need to if you want
to visually see what's going on you'd
put in whatever ratio you want and so
I'll set the ratio the ratio goes up to
20 to 1 which is like limiting for drums
I'm gonna set this pretty high at 12 and
then I'm gonna slowly lower the
threshold and you'll see the difference
between this meter you can also clearly
hear it when it starts to kick in i've
also lowered the attack quite a bit to
get it where it will also kick in pretty
quickly it'll also release quite quickly
a lot of times you set the release to
kind of match the tempo of the song to
get the drums grooving along this output
is really make up gain so once we start
to take some of the volume out of it
then we can make it back up which I'll
do as I play it back
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the compressor is really basic it does
sound pretty cool if you really kind of
overdrive it like that on the other hand
because it lacks metering I would say
much of the time I would actually go for
a third-party compressor and I have lots
of those available so it's really not
much of a limitation
another thing about plugins is you can
add them by simply right-clicking on an
existing plugin so I'm going to go to
the chorus here and I'm going to add the
pitch shifter so I'll right click here
select add new plug-in I can choose from
the list here and then choose the pitch
shifter and then that's adding it before
the chorus the pitch shifter is really
just a process to in real time change
the pitch so here's the original pitch
but then I can go up another number of
semi tones or you can pick from this
list and go up say there's 12 semitones
to an octave so if you go up or down a
semi tone you can set it to the original
pitch I'll play back and show you how
this works
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so that's kind of cool you can also
choose the algorithm it uses to do that
elastic transient is best for drums
elastic tonal is best for something
that's more melodic and you can also use
the sound touch algorithms if you want
typically the elastic will sound more
natural now there's one more I want to
show you and that is the high pass and
low pass filter so we'll do a high pass
filter on each of these guitar parts as
the first step so I'm gonna drag a high
pass filter in here I'm gonna drag
another one down here if you click it
here you select if it's low pass or high
pass so it'll roll off the lows you
choose it as high pass if you want to do
both you'd put two of these in series
and then just adjust this to suit
basically keep bringing it up until it's
not really affecting the tone too much
so we'll do this to both of our rhythm
parts see that set to low pass was
filtering off all the highs I need it as
high pass it's a kind of a quick way to
create a loaf I sound so if you put two
of these say on your drum part like this
so the first one's gonna be high pass so
we'll filter out everything up to about
300 and then the second one will be low
pass so I'll filter that down to about
3000 let's hear how that sounds
now select them both together and hit F
so that's another cool thing you can do
you could select multiple plugins at the
same time and bypass them all if I use
the shift key then I can select
multiples like this so I've got them all
selected this allows me to pretty much
bypass all my plugins at the same time
let's unsolo this
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I've got my lo-fi drums going there so
if I don't want the lo-fi drums I can
just take them right back out so that's
a quick overview of all the native audio
plugins in traction 5 thanks for
watching