None of those scenarios were mentioned in the OP's post. Again I made allowance for odd situations. If the signal is different on the track then it would appear on the bus then that would work as you state. But none of that was introduced. Thus I stand by what I said and how I said it. Its still accurate.

ORIGINAL: John

Thus I stand by what I said and how I said it. Its still accurate.

no fooling
when does that rod get removed?

ORIGINAL: MatsonMusicBox

ORIGINAL: John

Are you seriously trying to tell me that you believe the sum of 10 processed tracks is equivalent to processing the sum of those 10 tracks?

Why wouldn't it be?

Because that's not how processing and the digital math behind it works. That's OK ... now I understand where "you're at" with this stuff and can take that into consideration!

So how does it matter you explain? If you can't don't feel bad because there is no deference. Bits are bits.

J Boy ... first of all .. this is not my thread - I'm not the OP. I suggested a reason why someone would want to add the same effect to multiple tracks at the same time. I've never said there aren't other ways to acoomplish the same goal in the end .. and in fact, I do use templates. I've also said it's not a big deal to do it these ways.

BUT - that doesn't mean it would not be nice to be able to just do it with a multi-select and insert.

Look - I could do it with templates, I could do it with track templates, I could copy and paste, I could ctrl drag copy, I could simply insert it on each one, I could probably, with enough time and learning curve, hack the project file directly with a Hex editor and do it, I could pay a trained monkey to come and do it for me when I need it.

There's lot's of ways to accomplish it, all with varying degrees of convenience and depending on where in your process you are and what workflow you prefer. Why is everyone so gung ho on trying to prove that there are other ways to get there? NONE are as easy or intuitive as what the OP wanted and what I suggested.

I get tracks to mix all the time. It would be nice to select a number of tracks and insert the same plugin on all of the tracks at once, as I probably don't have a template saved for this person's track layout. In Pro Tools, you can do this easily, and assign outs in series, and easily do things to all tracks at once with modifier keys. This is a feature I have been requesting as well.

For example, I may want to take 8 tracks of backup vocals and compress each one with the same compressor, but each one set for that person's voice. Then I may send that group of vocalists to a bus, and put an overall compressor on that bus. Works great, and is standard practice. Perfect reason to have the same insert on many tracks. Of course you can insert one, then copy it track to track, but a shortcut would save time again and again.

This is a REALLY old thread.
 
However, just so you know, in Sonar Platinum (and I assume in Artist and Professional), you can do this by:

• Select the tracks (all only audio or all only MIDI) that you wish to insert the plugin
• Press and hold the CTRL key for the following steps
• Right-click in the effects bin in one of the selected tracks to bring up the context menu
• Insert the desired effect using the context menu
• Release the CTRL key

The desired effect will be placed in each of the selected tracks effect bin.
 
Note, deleting an effect using the same sequence does NOT delete all the effects from the selected tracks.
 
Hope this helps,
Paul