I recently have switched over to Cakewalk ProAudio9 from Sonic Foundry's Vegas. In Vegas you could route your audio tracks to different busses as submixes, and then all those would be routed to the final master bus. There were also aux sends though that functioned like the aux busses in Cakewalk.
I loved this option because I could control the overall volume of the entire drum set, as well as add compression. I could route a guitar mic'd with multiple mics to one bus, as well as the doubled track, so I could control all of its settings at once.
Is there any way to do this in Cakewalk? I have done quite a few searches, and it seems to me that the answer is no. I realize that I have aux busses that I can send my audio to, but they work as an fx send, where the original signal and the effected signal go through from what I can tell. I understand the basics of how these work, but I don't understand how I could use them to control the volume as well as fx of a group of tracks, where the fx are inserts rather than sends. I hope I am using the correct terminology.
I know that I could do an actual submix of the tracks to a stereo file and use the fx inserts on that track, because that is exactly what the busses are doing when a group of tracks is sent to them in Vegas, similar to the way the master fader and fx are applied in Cakewalk. But then if I realize I might need more of the snare, for instance, I can't just turn it up more.
I am fairly new to recording, but I've been reading a lot, and practicing a lot so I have a fairly general knowledge of how everything works but I've never used an analog board before. I do realize that the aux sends in Cakewalk function similarly to an analog board in that the send is how much signal is going to the effect (i think) and the return is how much of the effected signal is coming back. But from what I understand is this just taps into the track signals, they don't actually go through it as a submix completely.
Do most analog boards (not cheap ones, but "pro") have submix busses like I described in Vegas? If so, why don't they exist in Cakewalk? If not, then what is the proper way to do what I would like to do?
Also, does anyone have any experience with any other software programs that have busses used for submixes in addition to the aux sends? Is this unique to Vegas, even when including analog mixing?
Thanks to all who attempt to answer these questions. I realize this is long, and I hope it isn't too confusing. This one issue has been driving me nuts though, it seems to me that submix busses (i don't know if thats a real term or if I made it up) are indespensible, at least they make the job easier to me.
josh
I loved this option because I could control the overall volume of the entire drum set, as well as add compression. I could route a guitar mic'd with multiple mics to one bus, as well as the doubled track, so I could control all of its settings at once.
Is there any way to do this in Cakewalk? I have done quite a few searches, and it seems to me that the answer is no. I realize that I have aux busses that I can send my audio to, but they work as an fx send, where the original signal and the effected signal go through from what I can tell. I understand the basics of how these work, but I don't understand how I could use them to control the volume as well as fx of a group of tracks, where the fx are inserts rather than sends. I hope I am using the correct terminology.
I know that I could do an actual submix of the tracks to a stereo file and use the fx inserts on that track, because that is exactly what the busses are doing when a group of tracks is sent to them in Vegas, similar to the way the master fader and fx are applied in Cakewalk. But then if I realize I might need more of the snare, for instance, I can't just turn it up more.
I am fairly new to recording, but I've been reading a lot, and practicing a lot so I have a fairly general knowledge of how everything works but I've never used an analog board before. I do realize that the aux sends in Cakewalk function similarly to an analog board in that the send is how much signal is going to the effect (i think) and the return is how much of the effected signal is coming back. But from what I understand is this just taps into the track signals, they don't actually go through it as a submix completely.
Do most analog boards (not cheap ones, but "pro") have submix busses like I described in Vegas? If so, why don't they exist in Cakewalk? If not, then what is the proper way to do what I would like to do?
Also, does anyone have any experience with any other software programs that have busses used for submixes in addition to the aux sends? Is this unique to Vegas, even when including analog mixing?
Thanks to all who attempt to answer these questions. I realize this is long, and I hope it isn't too confusing. This one issue has been driving me nuts though, it seems to me that submix busses (i don't know if thats a real term or if I made it up) are indespensible, at least they make the job easier to me.
josh