Toast 8 Titanium Support Notes
Applying Audio Unit Effects
Audio enthusiast power feature! Toast 8 allows you to apply up to 3 audio unit effects to each track in an audio CD project. Remember, all audio effects available in Toast are non-destructive and your original files will never be modified.
- Launch Toast and click on Audio --> Audio CD
- Add your tracks to the project area by dragging them from the Finder or using the Media Browser.
- Click on the AU icon in the Effects column of the track of your choice.
- You'll be presented with a Sound Effects window:

- Track - Choose the track to which you'd like to apply an effect.
- Effect - Select the effect you'd like to apply to the selected track.
- Enabled Checkbox - This enables the effect you have selected. Unchecking this option disables the effect but remembers your settings so that you can enable the affect later with one click.
- Effect Number - You can apply up to 3 effects per track. Effects are applied in order starting with 1. Clicking on number 2 or 3 lets you apply additional effects to the selected track.
- Select your track
- Select the effect you will apply.
- Modify any settings for the selected effect.
- To apply an additional effect to this track, click on Effect Number 2 (or number 3) and repeat steps 6 and 7.
- Once you’ve applied all of your effects, close this window.
- The AU icon for each track will have green text if an effect has been applied.
- Burn your audio project.
POWER USER TIP To quickly remove all effects that you’ve applied to a project, select Clear Sound Effects from the Disc menu.
Available Audio Unit Effects
- AUBandpass - A single-band bandpass filter.
- AUDynamicsProcessor - A dynamics processor that lets you set parameters such as headroom, the amount of compression, attack and release times, and so on.
- AUDelay - A delay effect that can be set to a certain amount of time.
- AUFilter - A five-band filter that allows for low and high frequency cutoffs as well as three bandpass filters.
- AUGraphicEQ - A 10-band or 31-band graphic equalizer.
- AUHiPass - A high-pass filter with an adjustable resonance peak.
- AUHighShelfFilter - A filter that allows you to boost or cut high frequencies by a fixed amount.
- AUPeakLimiter - A filter that limits the peak.
- AULowPass - A low-pass filter with an adjustable resonance peak.
- AULowShelfFilter - A filter that allows you to boost or cut low frequencies by a fixed amount.
- AUMultibandCompressor - A four-band compressor.
- AUMatrixReverb - A reverberation effect that allows you to specify spatial characteristics, such as size of room, material absorption characteristics, and so on.
- AUNetSend - A unit that streams audio data over a network. This can be used in conjunction with the AUNetReceive generator audio unit.
- AUParametricEQ - A parametric equalizer.
- AUSampleDelay - A delay effect that allows you to set the delay by number of samples rather than by time.
- AUPitch - An effect that lets you alter the pitch of the sound without changing the speed of playback.