Wat Do I Do?

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Hey ya'll, im back with another one

Ok, Now i got some good effects on some of my tracks and read that it saves my sytem some power to put them on using the fx button or the bus. The only problem is that besides saving the settings and pushing the same button on all the tracks how can i get the same setting on all the other tacks without using too much pc power. B/C i tryed using the bus and it almost crashed my sysytem i was condemed to usingthe fx button, but i know there must be a way to put effects from the fx button on other tracks without pushing the buttons on them all the time.

P.S.- I wrote this because every time i load a session it takes so long that i started to get worried for my computer an i on't want to lose my music because i was too ignorant to ask for help.
 
ok, i guess i don't need an answer if this i the only way, thanks anyway
 
You create a bus. Put effects on that bus. Then assign tracks to the bus.

Press the out button on one of your tracks (labeled "out1" on my system)

Create a new bus. (make sure you label it).
Apply effects to the bus.

Now press the output button on a track you want to assign to the bus. Click the bus name and click OK. Do that to each track you want to assign to the bus. So if you have 3 vocal tracks that are using the same plug-in (and the same exact settings), using a bus will allow you to load the plug-in 1 time instead of 3 times.

...not sure if that is what you wanted - but good luck.
 
If I understand what you're asking (which is always a shakey assumption with me), then the problem is your computer is just too slow to keep up.

Using the "aux" button is easier on the CPU than using the "FX" buttons on each track that you want to use the same effect on, but ONLY if you're NOT locking the tracks when you use the FX button.

The absolute best CPU saver is to use the FX button, then lock the track. It just makes a copy of the track as a temp file with the effect on it and plays it back. And yeah, it'll take forever for your sessions to load if you do this, b/c it has to make new copies of the "locked" tracks everytime it opens the session. (Actually there's a way around this too in CEP 1.2 - you can instruct the program to save copies of all locked tracks so the sessions open more quickly).

But to answer your question, using the AuxBus option is only as good as your computer.
 
thanks ya'll, i appreciate the info and yeah it is the computer.

Thanks
 
There's a way around it.

I haven't dealt with effects straining the CPU for some time now. Whenever I cut or piece together the perfect dry track, I immediately copy it to another track and put it right next to the existing one in the multitrack view. I mute the copy.

Then, I'll destructively apply effects at will, and keep a log of exactly what I've done to each track. If something ever goes wrong that I can't undo, I'll just copy the dry track again and apply the effects the way I want to.

This saves so much time and bullsh!t. It's a little more complicated, but you can save loads of CPU power this way and do a helluva lot more with your music. Plus, it won't take 20 minutes to open up a CEP session, and ultimately saves wear on the R/W heads of your hard drive.
 
Mr W, that sounds like a great strategy. I am recording acoustic tracks for a client with several musicians who are new to mic protocols and, not having any high dollar gear I find myself tweaking with plugins and effects constantly trying to apply compressor (or whatever) while preserving the vibe and sound of the original. Tell ya what, the vocal track from hell is one of a local poet who rocks back and forth and whistles his "s"s. Even with a nice LDC and digital signal path, he needs help! So far I've been sending the track into Edit View, endlessly messing with it, and then sometimes undoing the whole thing when the results didn't work.

The odd thing is, I learned from Day One with computer graphics that you ALWAYS work on a copy, but somehow that information didn't make it across the street into the part of my brain (assuming there is one) that handles the recording.
 
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