- Bus usage goes way beyond this simple example though: busses, as tracks, can receive plugins for common audio treatment, and be routed themselves as needed. This makes for a very useful tool that is very commonly used both for musical purposes and computing ones: instead of using e.g. ten discrete delay plugins on ten different tracks, busses are often used as receivers of sends, and only one delay plugin is used on this bus, reducing the processing power needed. + Bus usage goes way beyond this simple example though: busses, as tracks, can receive plugins for common audio treatment, and be routed themselves as needed. This makes for a very useful tool that is very commonly used both for musical purposes and computing ones: instead of using e.g. ten discrete delay plugins on ten different tracks, busses are often used as receivers of sends, and only one delay plugin is used on this bus, reducing the processing power needed.
- Busses look and behave exactly like tracks, so they share nearly all of their controls. + Busses look and behave exactly like tracks, so they share nearly all of their controls. The differences are:
- Clicking the Aux button makes every track that sends a signal to this bus through Aux sends blink in turquoise. + Clicking the Aux button makes every track that sends a signal to this bus through Aux sends blink in turquoise. Right clicking this button brings up a menu:
-| Assign all tracks (prefader) | Creates an Aux Send in every track, to this bus. The send is placed just before the fader |
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| Assign all tracks and busses (prefader) | Creates an Aux Send in every track and every bus, to this bus. The send is placed just before the fader |
| Assign all tracks (postfader) | Same as above, but the send is placed just after the fader |
| Assign all tracks and busses (postfader) | Same as above, with tracks and busses |
| Assign selected tracks (prefader) | Same as for all tracks, but only applies to the selected tracks |
| Assign selected tracks and busses (prefader) | Same as for all tracks and busses, but only applies to the selected tracks and busses |
| Assign selected tracks (postfader) | Same as above, but the send is placed just after the fader |
| Assign selected tracks and busses (postfader) | Same as above, with tracks and busses |
| Set sends gain to -inf | For all the sends to this bus, put the send fader to −∞ so no signal is sent |
| Set sends gain to 0dB | For all the sends to this bus, put the send fader at the default position, 0dB (100% of th signal is sent) |