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chrisharris

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So I'm making one up just to make the page look less pathetic. Now, for a topic. Hrm...what's been irritating me about CEP lately? Oh, I've got one. What the heck is that "BUS" button for? I've never "bussed" anything, and I feel like I'm missing out.
 
It so if you want to put for example the same reverb or same eq on a few tracks you don't have to apply it seperatly. You just send the tracks you want to apply the effect on to a buss and than apply it to the whole buss.

Tukkis
 
Thanks, Tukkis.

Are you 16 yet? Sheesh, you're gonna' be something else on the console when you're old enough to vote. :D I wish I'd started earlier.
 
but if you put it on the bus......i THINK that it first takes all the tracks that you put it on...THEN applies the effect to ALL of them at once..right? (like an aux).

in other words...
i am not sure if it applies the effect SEPERATELY to each track..
rather then TO ALL THE TRACKS YOU SET IT TO.

anyone care to be the decider? haha.
 
Shackrock, I think you're right about combining the tracks on a bus and then applying the effects. I'm not certain about this, but I'm basing this on the fact that my computer keeps up with mixing a lot better if I apply an effect to a bus of 4 tracks than if I apply it to each of the 4 tracks individually.

Another use for busses:

When mixing, I have a set of headphones plugged into one set of outputs, studio monitors on another, a home stereo on another, and a portable "boom box" on another. By sending all my tracks to a bus instead of straight to an output, I can try my mix out on different speakers by changing just one output for the bus rather than going through all 12 or so tracks changing the output.
 
CrazyMonkey said:
When mixing, I have a set of headphones plugged into one set of outputs, studio monitors on another, a home stereo on another, and a portable "boom box" on another.
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Thanks for posting that. Pretty cool, actually. Now, if I could only run one of the outputs to me CAR (the only TRUE test of a mix, as we all know).

Later,
Chris
 
You can do the same thing without using a bus. Just change the output for one track and check the lil' box that says "same for all tracks"....
 
Hey the buss is very flexible, because you can change the wet/dry for every track on the bus tab. So if you have one good reverb you like, but like more on the vocals than on the snare, then it is a way to change the sound without using to much procesor.

I find it easy to set up busses when I am tracking so that when I let vocalists listen back, light compression and reverb has already been added. Some vocalists get freaked out when they hear their voices recorded dry.

Beezoboy
 
yeah...this forum really does need more threads.... the whole site does actually. Not a lot of activity here.
 
This site has loads of threads - more than most sites. But you have to go backward in time to find them.

Alternately, if there's a burning issue for you, start a thread about it.

Alternately, exercise patience. Everything comes up here on the wheel of time eventually.
 
I know why there aren't too many threads in this forum. It's becuase CEP is so DAMNED easy to use, and if you wonder about something, it's right there in the help file.
 
Meshuggah said:
I know why there aren't too many threads in this forum. It's becuase CEP is so DAMNED easy to use, and if you wonder about something, it's right there in the help file.
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Excellent point. Now let's all talk about how Paul McCartney is pissing everybody off by changing the order of the names on Beatles compositions after 40 years from "Lennon/McCartney" to "McCartney/Lennon."
 
Meshuggah said:
I know why there aren't too many threads in this forum. It's becuase CEP is so DAMNED easy to use, and if you wonder about something, it's right there in the help file.
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yeah but I still can't figure out the ID-10T interface!
 
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