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Old 05-16-2019, 08:37 AM   #1
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Default Add FX to track without opening FX window?

Is there a way to an FX to a track without having the FX window open?

I'll often want to add plugin(s) to multiple tracks by dragging them from the FX browser, but it's very annoying and time consuming when the FX window pops up for each track and you've got to close them all.

I remember watching a video on YouTube in which a kid showed how to create a custom action that did something similar. I didn't create the custom action, so I think it must have only worked for whichever plugin was written into the script. At any rate, I can't seem to find that now.

It seems like there should be a key command for this. Option drag or something. Am I missing something obvious?

Thanks!
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Old 05-17-2019, 08:53 AM   #2
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dock the FX Browser... I have it to the far right of the arrange window
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Old 05-17-2019, 11:26 AM   #3
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Hold Shift during the drag and drop - suppresses opening the Track FX window.
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Old 05-26-2019, 03:31 PM   #4
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Hold Shift during the drag and drop - suppresses opening the Track FX window.
Thank you! That was the answer I was looking for. I knew it was a simple thing that I'd forgotten.

I appreciate your solution, hopi. I'll be doing both. I had been working on a 13" MacBook Air for years, and just got a second monitor to work, so I had left docker that showed a single channel of the mixer docked to the left and the Master mixer to right and couldn't spare any more screen real estate. It had been that way for so long, I forgot how arrange dockers! Now I'm getting a functional workflow together. :-)

Thank you both!
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Old 01-16-2023, 11:13 PM   #5
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Default how to open fx window without opening the "add fx" window

preferences > Plug ins > "auto open fx add dialog when opening empty track fx chain"
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