Add an ARA plug-in to a track
Gridshift fully supports ARA 2. An ARA plug-in reads the track’s clips straight from the project, with no transfer pass. Add a compatible plug-in such as Melodyne or PitchNet to the track’s effects in the Plugin Strip, like any other effect. Its window opens on the track’s clips. To open one clip directly, select it and run Command Palette → Edit Clip in ARA Plug-in…. Pick Open in with the name of the plug-in already on the track, or Insert … and Open to add one at the end of the track’s chain.Edit, move and undo
Edit the notes in the plug-in’s window. Move, trim, split, duplicate or delete the clip on the timeline as usual. The plug-in follows each change, also while the song plays, and a split or duplicated clip keeps the edits it was made from. Undo a delete with⌘Z, and the clip comes back with its edits. The plug-in’s own undo covers what you change inside it.
Good to know
- The plug-in plays the clip itself. The clip shows the plug-in’s name on the timeline. Clip gain and fades do not reach it, so the clip’s fade handles are off; set the level on the track or inside the plug-in.
- Your edits are saved with the project and come back when you open it. A plug-in version that cannot read them leaves them in the project untouched.
- A warped clip reaches the plug-in as it sounds. Gridshift renders the warped sample first, so it appears in the plug-in a moment later. Trimming or cutting the clip keeps its edits. Change its Warp or the slice fades and the plug-in starts that clip over; undo brings the earlier edits back. Melodyne stretches a Smooth clip itself and keeps its edits.
- Each track’s plug-in window opens on that track’s clips, on the selected clip or the one under the playhead.
- The project’s key and scale go to the plug-in. Melodyne picks them up; PitchNet keeps its own setting.
- A bounce sounds like playback. Export and Bounce in Place render the plug-in from the same clips.
Which plug-ins does the list offer?
Which plug-ins does the list offer?
- Every installed plug-in that has run as ARA on a track, plus any that labels itself as ARA. Insert a new ARA plug-in once from the Plugin Strip, and it is offered from then on.
- During a bounce, timeline edits reach the plug-in once the bounce finishes.
- Switch ARA off in Settings ▸ Plug-ins (ARA plug-ins read audio clips directly); a plug-in then works on the signal that plays through it.
Why does Logic not do this on Apple Silicon?
Why does Logic not do this on Apple Silicon?
Logic runs plug-ins in a separate process on Apple Silicon, and ARA cannot reach across that. Gridshift runs plug-ins in its own process, so ARA plug-ins work natively.