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16.22 FX and FX Chain Options

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16.22 FX and FX Chain Options

The various menus in the FX chain window menu make available a number of options and preferences.

Kind: concept (user-guide-section) Chapter: 16 REAPER Plug-ins in Action Source: REAPER User Guide v7.70

The various menus in the FX chain window menu make available a number of options and preferences:

Options menu Comments

Auto float new FX windows

Causes a new window to be opened for any FX added to the chain.

Ignore FX keyboard shortcuts

Keyboard shortcuts are all passed through to the main window – e.g. pressing spacebar will start/stop playback.

FX plug-in settings …

Opens the Plug-ins page of REAPER’s preferences.

CPU utilization display

CPU utilization (in the performance meter and elsewhere) can be displayed as a percentage of the total capacity of all cores (e.g. 10% as 10% of all cores), or in terms of the number of cores being utilised (e.g. 0.2c as two tenths of one core).

Individual FX context menu Comments

Build multichannel routing for output…

If the selected FX (e.g. MT PowerKit) outputs to multiple channels, the necessary tracks are created for you, along with all required routing.

Build 16 channels of routing to ...

For input to multitimbral instruments, 16 tracks will be created, each with MIDI routed on a separate channel.

FX Menu Comments

Chain PDC mode

Option for plug-in delay compensation to be calculated and applied to the chain or to ignore plug-in delay.

Chain oversampling

Oversampling can increase the rate at which audio is sampled by a factor of typically 2x or 4x that at which it was recorded. This can have the effect of reducing unwanted noise, but is also CPU intensive. Options available are 88.2k/96k, 176.4k/192k, 352.8k/384k, or 705.6k/768k.

FX instance oversampling

Force auto-bypass on silence for selected FX

This can be used, for example, to prevent a reverb tail during a silent passage. The silence threshold is defined in advanced project settings. Also available on the individual FX context menu.

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