05-13-2017, 03:52 PM
A couple of years ago, I mentioned it'd be great to be able to add plugins to the Monitor section. And that happened. And it was good.
Having used the Monitor plugin to add a headphone correction plugin for a while now, I of course found that I sometimes (ok, often) forgot to turn the plugin on and/or off when I switched between monitoring on headphones (like after the kid is in bed) and using external monitors.
Today, I found I could use another cool feature to work around this.
I put my headphone plugin after the fader on the monitor.
Then, I opened the pin connection dialog for the headphone plugin and created a second instance of it. This creates a Monitor section with 4 channels.
The first instance works normally, processing channels 1+2.
The second instance is set up to be bypassed - the inputs skip it and go directly to the newly created 3+4 pins.
Finally, I routed the Monitor outputs to send channels 1+2 of the Monitor to the headphones on my audio interface, and pins 3+4 to my external monitors.
Now, I can just leave the headphone correction enabled, and the right signal goes to the right place. Since it's all post-fader, all the Monitor functions work correctly.
Having used the Monitor plugin to add a headphone correction plugin for a while now, I of course found that I sometimes (ok, often) forgot to turn the plugin on and/or off when I switched between monitoring on headphones (like after the kid is in bed) and using external monitors.
Today, I found I could use another cool feature to work around this.
I put my headphone plugin after the fader on the monitor.
Then, I opened the pin connection dialog for the headphone plugin and created a second instance of it. This creates a Monitor section with 4 channels.
The first instance works normally, processing channels 1+2.
The second instance is set up to be bypassed - the inputs skip it and go directly to the newly created 3+4 pins.
Finally, I routed the Monitor outputs to send channels 1+2 of the Monitor to the headphones on my audio interface, and pins 3+4 to my external monitors.
Now, I can just leave the headphone correction enabled, and the right signal goes to the right place. Since it's all post-fader, all the Monitor functions work correctly.
