Waveform 11 - Aux bus feedback loops

[wgotten]

Relative novice with Waveform ... I've been trying to create a feedback loop within aux busses. I figured I should be able to send the return signal right back into the bus, but this does not appear to work. Then I tried sending a return signal to a different bus, which works, but then routing that signal back to the original bus input doesn't work. There is no indication the return signal makes it back into the first aux bus. Am I missing something? Have searched the manual and the Internet but no luck. Many thanks.

[Watchful]

A send should always have an associated return, so at some point, this will fail. Not saying you can't do this in the real world, with physical cables, but in any virtual environment, you're going to need a return...which will block your loop.

Two simpler alternatives: you should easily be able to do this with the rack plugin. Insert this utility on an audio track, and connect the audio output of the plugin back into the audio input. There are a few ways to do this with racks, so experiment and have fun! You might get different results with each experiment, too!

Or, this might be your answer:

[Watchful]

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This might not be exactly what you were intending, but it's an example of a delay feeding into another delay and then feeding back into itself. You can add reverb units into this rack and customize the flow as you desire.

What you're looking at is Collective outputting to the Tracktion delay, which outputs to another Tracktion delay, and both output to the main audio out of the track. You can stack these up like crazy, or substitute other pieces of equipment in.

[wgotten]

Thanks y'all. Based on your workarounds, I'm not sure that Tracktion supports an intentional feedback loop natively. I was able to do it in Reaper in about a minute, but it did involve checking a setting that otherwise would have specifically prevented me from doing that.