[Rwp] sendsand receives and routing fx things and stuff

[Chris Belle]

Good ones Scott, thank you kindly.


On 9/6/2015 6:19 PM, Scott Chesworth via RWP wrote:
> Oh btw, one more thing just sprung to mind. To keep confusion to a
> minimum when you have a boat load of fx, you can hit F2 on individual
> instances of plugins once they've been inserted in the FX window to
> rename them. Comes in particularly handy if you're stacking multiple
> instances, grabbing specific things from chains to import into another
> session, or revisiting old projects. It's especially useful if you
> find yourself using any of those one size fits all type plugs, iZotope
> Alloy, EZMix and the like.
>
> Hth
>
> Scott
>
> On 9/6/15, Scott Chesworth <scottchesworth at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Hey Chris,
>>
>> So far as I can tell, there's no difference between sends and receives
>> other than the terminology, IE the point of view or track you're
>> examining that routing from.
>>
>> When it comes to folders vs manually setting up a track as a bus, I
>> use both approaches here. If I've got a huge group of backup vox
>> tracks that are similar enough that on a real board I'd assign them to
>> a group to EQ and compress all in one shot for instance, that'd be a
>> folder job, because why bother manually creating all those sends when
>> you can just drop them into a folder? But, say there's a reverb I'm
>> using to place some guitar stuff together in a given space, and I only
>> want to send specific guitar parts to it, I'd sooner use a track as a
>> bus and create sends to it than break up the organization and naming
>> of my track list, because it'd only take a minute to create those
>> sends and my usual ReaConsole commands will still work without me
>> needing to rethink what I've called stuff, what number tracks things
>> are etc.
>>
>> Basically, I aim for the least amount of button pushing and thought
>> possible. It's part laziness, part belief that working on gut instinct
>> gets the good stuff. Mostly the former though lol.
>>
>> Hth a bit
>>
>> Scott
>>
>> On 9/6/15, Chris Belle via RWP <rwp at bluegrasspals.com> wrote:
>>> I just did it with a delay, and worked beautifully, and was able to turn
>>> the send up and down from an edit box.
>>> on the sending tracks i/o.
>>>
>>> Now when I get a butt load of fx going on, and telling which is which,
>>> that might be the kicker, but I see lots of possibilities here, since we
>>> can string tracks together any way we like, we can have series or
>>> paralel processing going on.
>>>
>>> And since reaper so handily gives you a wet dry mix for every fx
>>> processor, and a by-pass, you could do combinations  of series and
>>> paralel processing.
>>> using one or several tracks as your bus returns.
>>>
>>> Since all tracks default to sending to the master bus by default,
>>> this is really functionally no different than having a bus in the master
>>> section right?
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On 9/6/2015 4:43 PM, Chris Belle via RWP wrote:
>>>> 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.
>>>>
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