Am I out growing LE?

[guttapercha]

Hello,

Am I doing something incorrectly, or am I limited to 4 send effects for an entire recording project? I had previously thought it was 4 per channel. For instance, I have a particular chorus on a bass track - let's say the Kjerhaus 'solid el bass' setting. When I open my vocal track, and I want to use a different setting on the kjerhaus chorus - 'vocal', it's already set to 'solid el bass', so I change it.
Then, when I go into the bass track again, the setting is changed to 'vocal'.

Do I need to run another instance of the chorus and therefore take up one of my precious 4 slots for sends? Typically, a song will need the following for me:

Drums: reverb
Bass: comp setting 1, chorus setting 1
Guitar: reverb
Acoustic: reverb, leslie
vocal: reverb, chorus setting 2, comp setting 2, 'da tube'
keys: no effects

That's 5 different effects, two of which have an additional setting, so in essence, 7 different effects.

Thanks for listening to me rant. I'd really appreciate some advice on this. If I can avoid shelling out the $ to upgrade, that would be splendid.

JD

 

[scrubs]

I think you've got it right. The sends are available to all channels, and not specific to one channel.

You could use the inserts and adjust the wet/dry on the effect, but you'd still be sending the entire signal through additional processing.

I've heard talk of wrappers that will allow you to place multiple effects into a single slot, but I'm not sure if those are for sends or just inserts.

 

[guttapercha]

Ok then (by the way, I love the 'douchebag' pic), it looks like I could upgrade to SE3 for $130 (with buying the dongle). Before I pull the trigger, is there any other sub $200 software that might be worth looking at? Mackie's tracktion gets good reviews and that's $150. I suppose I could use outboard effects, but mine suck and I like the ability to change things after they've been recorded.

Hmmm....