Inserts and Sends

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What exactly is an insert and a send in my sequencer? I think inserts on mixers are 1/4 jacks with send and returns for plugging in effects right? But what's a send?

My sequencer (ardour) has 3 options to put on a mixer strip. New Plugin, New Insert, and New Send... What's the difference?
 
avieth said:
What exactly is an insert and a send in my sequencer? I think inserts on mixers are 1/4 jacks with send and returns for plugging in effects right? But what's a send?

My sequencer (ardour) has 3 options to put on a mixer strip. New Plugin, New Insert, and New Send... What's the difference?
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well, i guess when you talk about "an insert and a send" you actually mean "an insert and an AUX send" right?

on a physical mixer, the inserts are either one TRS output, or 2x1/4 jacks label "send" and "return". the send signal goes into the input of your fx, return is coming from the output of the fx.

Aux sends will come out of an aux output, and this will only be a send. no return, no TRS. let's say its its a 'verb you're setting up, then you buss all the tracks you want going to the verb, the aux output goes into the the 'verb, and the output from the verb goes into another track.




that answer yer question?




EDIT: yeh, so i didn't read to the end of yer question. use an insert when you want a new signal: for example, there's no need to have a wet/dry mix when you're using a gate, or a compressor. a send you use when you want to have a wet/dry mix, for example a reverb or a delay.
 
Also, inserts are placed on a specific track and only apply to the track they are placed on. Using sends, however, you can create and aux track, insert an effect on the aux track, and then use send to route signals from many other tracks through the aux track thus applying the same effect to many different instuments or tracks. This helps alot with effects that use lots of CPU per instance like reverb. On a live mixer sends and aux channels are used to apply effects and to create separate monitor mixes.

Most manuals for DAW's will have a detailed section on exactly how to use your inserts and sends for you particular DAW.
 
ohh, ok, I understand the inserts and sends now, thanks. It's just a matter of learning how to use them in the daw.
 
It's also VERY IMPORTANT to note that an insert is PRE fader, a send loop is POST fader
 
altitude909 said:
It's also VERY IMPORTANT to note that an insert is PRE fader, a send loop is POST fader
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while this is generally the case, it's not always, and that you can generally change wether a send is pre or post fader..
 
hm, wierd, in my sequencer an insert can go pre or post fader. It then asks me what to send to, and where to return. (Jack Audio Connection Kit API)
 
In general inserts and sends are exactly the same except for one thing.... Inserts send the signal out from a primary signal path and then reinject that signal at some point back into that original signal path. Sends are exactly the same, except they do not return to the original signal path, but become a new signal path of their own. Inserts and sends can both be pre or post whatever. Pre and post have absolutely no bearing on which is which. However, on the vast majority of all analog consoles the insert point is post gain pot, pre everything else although many of them are post HPF.
 
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