Anyone liking this Jamaica update?

The last couple of updates with synth recording and now aux track routing and patch points have revolutionized Sonar for me. It's a HUGE workflow boost. I got so sick of traveling back and forth between the tracks and buses, whether in the track view or in the console view. If you're going to route all of your drums to a bus, what was the advantage in having that drum bus all the way behind the "curtain"? That separation had a negative psychological impact on my workflow, in that I felt disorganized and jumbled. 
 
Now my track philosophy is thus: 
 
Instead of grouping tracks to a bus I put all of those tracks in a folder and add an aux track to it, routing all of the tracks to the aux. All of the tracks are together in the folder. 
 
If I'm using an effects return that's only for a group of tracks that I have grouped in a folder, I'll set up the return as an aux track. For instance, I might be using a room reverb or a delay that's only being used for drums. It goes in the drums folder instead of behind the curtain. Far more logical and organized. 
 
If I'm using an effects return that's used widely across the whole project, I'll set up a bus for that as usual. It can stay behind the curtain, out of the way. 
 
The old way of doing things seems so archaic already. 
 
Synth recording is another major workflow improvement. It's now so much easier to print synth parts and draw a line under them. The old way of exporting or bouncing was a drag. I would be too lazy to do it, and as a result would twiddle with synth controls ad infinitum to the point where I was just chasing my tail. Now it's so easy to just record the synth, get rid of the MIDI track and turn the synth off so that I'm committed to it. 
 
And yes, it's definitely snappier for me. I can feel a good performance boost in synth heavy projects. 
 

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sharke
 
Now my track philosophy is thus: 
 
Instead of grouping tracks to a bus I put all of those tracks in a folder and add an aux track to it, routing all of the tracks to the aux. All of the tracks are together in the folder. 

Sharke, do you route the aux tracks, in the folders, to the master bus? So in general, you don't have any buses other than the master?
 
Thanks

All the aux tracks are routed to the master bus as usual, however if I found the need to route them elsewhere (for instance if I wanted to group aux tracks together into a submix) then I would do that. I'm not saying that I have no need for buses other than the master any more - for example, lets say I need a universal "glue" reverb that I'm going to send a little of all tracks to, regardless of their grouping. Or I might have a couple of universal delays, or an instance of an aural exciter that I'm going to use to add sparkle to a few select (but otherwise unconnected) tracks. I would use a bus for those returns. 
 
I guess the idea is that if you have a bunch of tracks that are logically grouped together and need to be processed as a group or which use an effects return exclusively, then use aux tracks and group them all (tracks & auxes) in a folder. If you have a need for universal effects returns or are busing aux tracks into a wider submix, then use buses.