I need to catch a Bus

[rguagenti]

I am running HS2004XL.

In my tracks view there is a sectionm on the bottom below the tracks titles that have Aux. Bus A,B,C and D and two other items that I can't think of now off the top of my head.

If anybody knows what I'm talking about, can you tell me what they are used for. Can I reroute individiual(or a group of) tracks through an individual bus to control things like volume, panning, etc as a group?

THANKS FOR YOUR HELP.

 

[moskus]

If anybody knows what I'm talking about, can you tell me what they are used for. Can I reroute individiual(or a group of) tracks through an individual bus to control things like volume, panning, etc as a group?

I know you can do that in Sonar 3. Check the outputs on an audiotrack, and you'll find out soon enough...

 

[dachay2tnr]

Generally busses are used to patch the same effect onto multiple tracks. For example, reverb on a drum kit.

The bus will contain the wet signal, while the main track contains the dry signal. By blending the wet and dry signals - using the track's send controls, and the bus' send and return controls - you can determine how much or how little each track will be effected.

While busses can also be used as a grouping device for multiple tracks, they are not really designed for that, and have a lot of limitations. A better approach would be to establish another V-Main and route the tracks you wish to group to their own V-Main. This also has its limitations, in that there is no master volume meter where all the tracks are summed. Therefore you could end up clipping your mix without knowing it.

True sub-grouping of tracks was not available from Cakewalk until Sonar 3.

 

[Strryder]

The workaround to the lack of a final main output bus/meter for me is this..

I have a Delta 1010, Sonar sees this as 4 stereo outs each with it's own V-Main, So using the Delta's control panel on my second monitor, I can mix the 4 V-mains together there, and use the Delta's monitor mixer to sum them together and select that as my source for a new stereo track that will contain the mixdown, I don't think the signal even goes through the converters for this, it works pretty well and gives me the ability to meter my final level in the Delta's monitor mixer.

Of course I can't put a compressor across the final output bus, but I can compress and/or EQ the newly recorded final mix.