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Rui --

Many thanks for your reply!

FWIW, I'm using the very latest spring release download of Qtractor (yay'ed via Arch community repository) along with the latest Calf downloads (same source) all running on a repurposed Dell Optiplex which is highly functional, fast quad-processor, etc. Everything is running fast as a squirrel (for comparison, I'm separately running Arch installations on an old MacBookPro and a iMac desktop too (although not for music purposes) but this Dell runs circles around any of those (originally) Apple platforms.

To clarify my (up)settings, my Qtractor is running perfectly - awesome, in fact. My only current confusion surrounds just not understanding - after I open the Calf plugin mgr rack - just which inputs and outputs I'm supposed to be connecting the various FX into/out of for various results. Perhaps it's complicated because I'm using "Inserts" (per Carl Irwin's suggestion) to cascade (i.e., waterfall?) my audio signals (from left to right in the Mixer) and replaced by default "Master" for a final bus-created track which feeds my studio monitors via a Presonus AudioUSB box.

Frankly, I can visually see the incoming signal on the meters within the Calf rack and I hear the clean signal through the monitors... but I can't seem to hear any actual difference between the pre and post FX signal. It's as if bypass is on (which it's not) regardless of whichever corresponding input I connect within that same Calf rack connection panel back into Qtractor.

This may be entirely a Calf issue. I just figured there might be a "tutorial" of sorts out there somewhere. If not, I'll just keep muddling along - discover a solution - and post it here for anyone else coming along after me. Thanks for reading this far.

- OneWatt