Hi folks, being new to home recording and traction, I've noticed quite a few forum topics on aux sends and rack routing.
I'm not sure whether I need to use these as I'm mainly gonna be using Traktion to record me band, but I'd like to know what they do and how ya set them up?
It may open some musical horizons for me.
Knowledge is power.
aux sends and rack routing - what zactly do they do?
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- KVRAF
- 6740 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
Think of a rack as a seperate area from the main tracks where you are free to create any combination of synths and effects in any order.
The rack can have as many inputs and outputs as you like.
The rack is available to any / all the tracks in the arrangement via the rack filters which sit on the tracks themselves: these allow you to choose which two of the racks inputs will be fed that track's signal, and which two will feed a signal back to that track. You can also choose how much of these signals are sent back and forth, and whether or not the dry signal is passed.
No matter how many rack filters you create for a particular rack, there is still only one rack: you are just connecting its I/O to multiple tracks.
This makes racks very flexible: they can be used, as you have heard, to create as aux send (ie: a seperate mix of several signals, usually to send to a global effect such as a reverb) or they can allow VSTi's with multiple outputs to route each out to a different track, or they can simply provide a more flexible way to insert effects on one channel (traditional hosts do not allow any way to route effects in parallel for example, which is easy in a rack..)
Someone made a guide somewhere I think.. hopefully a link will appear shortly.
The rack can have as many inputs and outputs as you like.
The rack is available to any / all the tracks in the arrangement via the rack filters which sit on the tracks themselves: these allow you to choose which two of the racks inputs will be fed that track's signal, and which two will feed a signal back to that track. You can also choose how much of these signals are sent back and forth, and whether or not the dry signal is passed.
No matter how many rack filters you create for a particular rack, there is still only one rack: you are just connecting its I/O to multiple tracks.
This makes racks very flexible: they can be used, as you have heard, to create as aux send (ie: a seperate mix of several signals, usually to send to a global effect such as a reverb) or they can allow VSTi's with multiple outputs to route each out to a different track, or they can simply provide a more flexible way to insert effects on one channel (traditional hosts do not allow any way to route effects in parallel for example, which is easy in a rack..)
Someone made a guide somewhere I think.. hopefully a link will appear shortly.
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- KVRer
- Topic Starter
- 26 posts since 16 Jan, 2005
Thanks Platinumears, I had to read that a few times before I got it - not due to your explanation - I'm just not that techy....yet.
I'll have to put that into use to get the real implications I think, incidentally, what kind of global effects would you add to multiple tracks? I had always thought that you would tend to treat each track seperately with regards to effects?
Thanks again.
I'll have to put that into use to get the real implications I think, incidentally, what kind of global effects would you add to multiple tracks? I had always thought that you would tend to treat each track seperately with regards to effects?
Thanks again.
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- KVRAF
- 6740 posts since 25 Mar, 2002 from sheffield, england
Reverb is the most common one these days, as good sounding verb plugs tend to eat a lot of cpu. Using a rack as a send (or using Senderella for that matter) allows you to specify different amounts of reverb for each track, even though the reverb itself will be the same.burno70 wrote:incidentally, what kind of global effects would you add to multiple tracks?
Personally I like to tailor the reverb to each sound, and tend to have more tracks dry than not, so I rarely use send effects prefering to freeze / render tracks instead, or to use a basic reverb until the final mixing stage.. but if you are ever trying to create the illusion that two sounds were recorded in the same room when they weren't, adding the same reverb to both can help a lot, and it is more efficient to only run one instance of the reverb in that case.