Group tracks... why?

[Fishybob]

Hi, I've been using various incarnations of Cubase for about five years and made countless tracks.
I was advised by a friend that a group track for my drums would be useful. However when I create a group track all that happens is that the tracks I have copied into it are out of phase with the ones still 'in the open'.
Have I just done somethin stupid or have I been misinformed?

 

[xstatic]

It sounds like you are just using group tracks wrong. I beleive that SX3 was the first SX too add delay compensation to the group tracks. When you have a group track for say drums, most people assign all their drums to that group track. It sounds like you may have had them assigned to the main outs AND the group track. Were you using an aux send to access the group track? If so then you were likely sending every drum track straight to the main outs, and through the group to the main outs. Try assigning each drum track out of the mains and straight to the group. This allows you to process all the drums as a whole when using EQ and compression, as well as whatever you want on the individual drum tracks. Basically, you can save a little CPU headroom this way depending on how you want to process things.

 

[Fishybob]

Cheers... I'm a dufus!

That is exactly what it sounded like...

Looks like I need to do my homework a little more thoroughly tonight!


Thanks for that.

 

[Moving]

At first I thought group tracks were useless, but you can use them to save cpu, as xstatic said but you can also assign bass drum and rhythm guitar to same group track witch includes compressor so the compressor reacts to the bass drum and effects at the same time to the guitar track (some Master trick? I learned somewhere).