Setting up Busses help!

[uab9253]

Originally Posted by Vulconizer

The count number that you see in the creating a track dialogue window is just asking how many tracks do you want to create at that time. You can create just one track ( mono or stereo ) or you can go ahead and create as many tracks as you think you'll need for all the instruments and vocals at one time. You will " usually " only put one thing on one track, same as in analogue.

You're just being given the ability to set up what you think you may need ahead of time. Or, if you want to make copies of a guitar track, then you can make like 4 copies or whatever if you want to do the paste thing.

The same thing goes for creating Midi tracks. It is just asking how many midi tracks do you want to create at that particular time. If it's only 1, then cool.

It is up to you to decide if you want to create say, 4 midi tracks and then put a bass synth on one, then later a piano part on the next, and a violin part on one of the others after that.

Yeah, Brandon. I tend to think of group channels and effects channels as the real busses for the most part, but I figured the concept also carries across to the whole signal chain pretty much. I was just hoping the idea of thinking about what signal you have and where all it needs to go would be grasped the easiest way possible.

It may say "Senior Member" by my name but that just means I post a lot - not that I necessarily have senior knowledge. Along those lines, I didn't know what the count meant either and hadn't gotten around to digging up the answer. That'll save me buckets of time, instead of adding tracks one by one. I never used any of the project templates yet either when starting a new project. I figure that every project I do is pretty unique so I can't really use a template with 4 MIDI tracks, 8 audio, etc, - even though I realize that I could change along the way.

Thanks for the 411.

[Vulconizer]

Cool Alan. Glad when I can help with something.

[kokomo]

Man, this is great! Thanks both of you!
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This was pertaining to my question You and Brandon answered!