best way to boost all track volume at once?

[stash98]

is it possible to boost all the volumes for every track at once?

Also, why is the master bus set at -3(default) instead of zero?

[Warmonger]

You can always simply increase the master volume fader. Also, you will likely want some form of limiting just before output, so you can always just raise the gain there.

[Lunch Money]

If your master fader is cranked and you're still not getting close to 0db, you probably need to rework your mix from scratch. However, you COULD always throw another volume/pan filter into the master area and crank IT up, too.

Good point about the limiter. By using a master limiter of some sort, you will increase perceived volume, which is what makes for those "loud-sounding" mixes.

Greg

[AD80]

is it possible to boost all the volumes for every track at once?

You can select one volume/pan filter, right click and choose "select all other filters of the same type", that will select all the volume filters. Then you can hold shift down and drag on one to adjust all of them at once. Or just adjust the master volume.

[Lunch Money]

Cor blimey! Good one.

[AD80]

Cor blimey!

Never heard that before .

[Warmonger]

AD80: How did you figure that little trick out?

[AD80]

No idea. It comes in real handy sometimes tho becuase I usually mix my stuff too hot. Its nothing new either I've been doing it since I got T1. I'm sure I just tryed it one day and it worked. Either that or somebody like Valley told me how to do it on this forum.

[koolkeys]

Yeah, I asked about this before and that's the solution I came up with. Also, if you just shift-click certain volume/pan filters, you can turn up or down only the selected ones. I think it's shift, but it may be ctrl, just mess around with it.

Koolkeys

[Lunch Money]

Holy moly. Can all sequencers do that? <covertly gathering information for the next host war>

[Mr. Slater's Parrot]

Holy moly. Can all sequencers do that? <covertly gathering information for the next host war>

In Sonar, you can put multiple volume (or pan, etc.) controls in a group. Moving one control then moves all of them in tandem (while preserving the volume levels relative to each other). You can put all track volume controls in one group to raise or lower the volume of everything. Or you could, for example, put all the drum and bass track volume controls in a group and then change the volume of each of those tracks relative to all other tracks. And many other possibilities.

All of that is in addition to things you can do with busses, of course.

[Lunch Money]

The fact that all the other tracks' individual volume controls move is pretty neat. You can, of course, accomplish the same end result in Tracktion, but with a buss, the tracks feeding the buss won't have their individual faders move.

So much for future ammunition. Mind you, I don't tend to enjoy battles against Sonar anyhow, as it seems to be the best of the "traditional" hosts.

[AD80]

So much for future ammunition.

Dont worry, we still got plenty of ammo left. Especially once they release T2 . We're the North Korea of sequencers.

[Mr. Tingle]

the best way is to drop a volume on the master buss and you can crank up another 6db's.

[IIRs]

You can, of course, accomplish the same end result in Tracktion, but with a buss, the tracks feeding the buss won't have their individual faders move.

Its not quite the same.. larger posher analogue mixers will often have both methods available: Sub-groups, for all the usual reasons, but also "VCA" groups, where a single fader can be assigned to control the relative levels of anynumber of others. The advantages of the VCA method is that the routing of the grouped tracks can be different. eg: you could assign the snare reverb return to the same VCA group as the rest of the drum mix, without needing to route it to the drum buss (which may have compression etc inserted).