What is Direct Offline Processing and How to Use it | Music Production for Beginners 3

Direct offline processing in Cubase lets you add audio processing like fading, time stretching and plug-ins over a selected audio event in the main project window. The processes can be re-ordered by dragging up or down in the direct offline processing window, they can also be dragged into the banks (individually or as groups) and stored as favorites. You can of course bypass processes, which will show in the updated visual waveform of the wav-file. Direct offline processing provides an intuitive audio production workflow, helping you to quickly achieve fine processing of audio samples and events in music production and sound design.

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[sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

Is this a segment of a larger video?

...I'm going to search for another "Direct Offline Processing" video... it seems more random/sporadic than even my scrambled mind.

[jakelong-hxue]

Can you set variables for certain parameters? Ie what if you wanted to time stretch 10 events with random values for the time stretch ratio?

[kevvinster]

Can you automate the plug in attached to the clip? Or is only a static setting possible?

[ERICKDHN]

Thank you so much for this video. Why can there be only 1 single processing per track when using Frequency plugin ? Shouldn't it be allowed processing multiple regions per track with Frequency plugin too? Thanks!

[Beatsniper]

Elements Version 10 does not have a plugin option button within the direct offline process window only shows a process button. Any ideas?

[DarthQueefious]

This is a lifesaver when it comes to Amplitube, that plugin was giving me constant "CPU Overload/Drop out detected" even tho my CPU is pretty beastly

[Slippers]

Hi, is there a button to convert tracks with insert plug-ins into tracks with direct offline processing, maintaining all plug-ins automation and settings? And if there isn't, could there be?

[constantinelifts]

Hi ! Cubase 10 pro user here! I would like to use the pitch shift process like it is in acid pro (+ and - keys pitch shift by one semitone one or down). Is there a way to do this in cubase ? Some macro maybe?

[timmlive]

I would like to be able to just drag a VST effect onto an audio clip (with alt or ctrl etc) and that it would immediately use offline processing for that VST effect. Just like in S1. is faster and easier ;-)

[Am-]

Please please bring back the feature that re-selects the range in the audio clip if you click on a DOP affect that was applied to a range before. Why that was removed in the redesign of DOP is beyond me. Makes range DOP pretty useless as you cannot see where it was applied before nor edit the range.

[dominy]

Very interesting, but you are speaking and making it too fast for non native English speaker like me.
And the voice is a bit very audible.

Anyway thank you

[sekritskworl-sekrit_studios]

dang dude... hard to hear you over the music.