Sonar aux sends and busses

[jdier]

I have read the manual and also read sonar 2 power, but for the next two weeks I am away from my DAW and my books.

Here is what I am trying to do:

I would like to take three mono audio tracks (snare, kick and bass guitar) and send them to one of the compression plugs and smash the crud out of them. I would then like to ease that supercompressed sound in behind the original tracks.

I really want all of the original tracks to remain in tact, and just bring the compressed signal up or down as a group behind the original tracks.

So I figure I could do it by duping all the tracks, but I think there should be a more elegant way.

Take it slow, I'm not all that bright. I have NO external gear so I have to do it all in Sonar.

Thanks in advance.

Jim

[dachay2tnr]

The title of your thread is your answer.

Just send the tracks to an Aux Bus. Use the "Pre-fader" setting, and patch the compressor plugin onto the Aux Bus. This will leave your original tracks unaffected. Use the Aux Bus Return setting to determine the amount of compressed signal to mix in.

I'm not sure, though, that you are really going to want to use exact same compression settings on a kick drum, snare and bass guitar. YMMV.

[Middleman]

Occassionaly Bass and Kick in one compressor. Snare needs a different approach for compression.