[Rwp] Sending the output of multiple tracks to one track.

onlineeagle onlineeagle at gmail.com
Tue Nov 17 18:31:34 EST 2015


Ah yes, and I foudd that you can mute the send level in the dialogue that comes up with shift L, using Derik and Gianluca's Osara keymap. I've only been using Reaper for a few days, but already I think that this is the best DAW I've ever used. Certainly more freeing than ProTools. 

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> On 17 Nov 2015, at 22:15, Patrick Perdue <patrick at pdaudio.net> wrote:
> 
> There are individual levels in the track I/O dialogue for each send. You can also adjust the send levels with envelopes.
> 
>> On 11/17/2015 2:45 PM, onlineeagle wrote:
>> Hi, I’m trying to send the output of a few tracks to a bus track. I’m doing this as opposed to grouping the tracks or putting them into a folder because I want to be able to control the volume of each track independently.
>> 
>> Step 1. I create a new track with command T.
>> Step 2. I press I on the first track I want to send the output to the bus. This opens the track info window.
>> Step 3. I add a send, and tell the track to send to my newly inserted track, which will be my bus track. I believe this is the way Reaper works, which is different to ProTools and Sonar.
>> Step 4. I untick the option that says master/parent send. This should stop the sound being sent twice, once to my bus track, and again to the master track.
>> Step 5. Use NVdA screen review to turn the send to prefader, so that I don’t get the signal on the original track as well as the signal being sent to the bus track.
>> 
>> It all works great, until I try to adjust the volume of that track. Obviously because I’ve set it to prefader, the track volume isn’t affecting the signal being sent to the bus track.
>> 
>> I go back into the track info window and change it back to fader, but now my my signal is being sent to the track and also the bus track.
>> 
>> I think I must be doing something wrong, but my brain’s getting a bit frazzled with a whole day of Reaper. But other than that, everything else is working great.
>> 
>> Any ideas.
>> 
>> Thanks as always.
>> 
>> 
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