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28 lines
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title: Inserts
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<p>
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<dfn>Inserts</dfn> are signal tap points that can be placed anywhere
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inside a channel strip. Unlike Auxes, they will interrupt the signal flow,
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feeding the signal from before the insert point to its <dfn>Insert
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send(s)</dfn>, and connecting the remainder of the channel strip to the
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<dfn>Insert return(s)</dfn>, both of which are JACK ports which are
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visible to other JACK applications.<br />
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Inserts are the JACK equivalents of normalized switching jacks on an
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analog console.
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</p>
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<p>
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An insert allows you to either use a special external DSP JACK
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application that is not available as a plugin, or to splice an external
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analog piece of gear into your channel strip, such as a vintage
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compressor, tube equalizer, etc. In the latter case, you would first
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connect your inserts to a pair of hardware ports, which are in turn
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connected to the outboard gear.
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</p>
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<p class="note">
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Inserts will incur an additional JACK period of latency, which can be
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measured and compensated for during mixing, but not during tracking!
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</p>
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