[Rwp] sendsand receives and routing fx things and stuff

[Chris Belle]

Hey guys?

I know many of you handle fx via trackfolders and such, to have global 
things going on but since we can make sends and assign them anywhere,
what is wrong with putting an effect on a track and then using it as a 
bus and making sends to it?

Wouldn't having descrete sends to everything allow you more control than 
track folders?
Also, I'm curious, about the functional difference between sends and 
receives as far as reaper goes,
I know they can accomplish some of the same things, because you can make 
a send to anywhere and receives from anywhere,
so maybe there's not a ton of difference, I'll have to go back and check 
but it seems i remember when I made sends, corresponding delete buttons 
turned up on the tracks I made sends to that looked like receives,
or maybe I dreamed it,
I've used the receives thing pretty often to quickly assign midi 
receives for all tracks to a soft synth,
so malybe it's just the perspective of whether you're looking at getting 
input from everything or sending out-put specifically to everything or 
specific tracks and fxand such.

I just wondered if there was any functional routing differences I should 
know about,
like maybe you can adjust send levels or route them places receives 
won't go or some such.

I thought I saw edit boxes to adjust sends levels and such so using a 
track as a return for your reverb or what ever would be maybe a good way 
to go to globally use fx since if I have it right, it's hard for us to 
deal with the bus area right now.