First one's free, little girl...

Heard good things about this years ago, anxious to try it in Sonar 6.

Cheers, Mate!!

Daddy?!

This may sound a bit like techno double talk...but it's not; Basically its function is to take a stereo signal and convert it to "dual mono". At the end of the day the mix will sound a touch wider/deeper.

Some compressor plugins, like the UAD Fairchild and PSP MasterComp, have an "unlink" feature that will get you to the same place without the cryptic signal routing.

thank you

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None of this is revolutionary, but it's nice to make the most out of what you have.

the most? with your template alone?

you almost got me

The sub-bus is what is splitting the original stereo signal into two independent mono signals...which are then routed to the Mix L and MixR buses. These are then recombined/routed to the master bus.

This thread deserves the occassional bumpification.

Thanks. I missed this the first time around. The bump is appreciated.

super!!! everything is working great. i agree with putting together a schematic of the ins and outs.

tom

how do i give a bump? or whatever the praise is?

What is the advantage of using Sends (as in the JA Mixing Template) compared to the way I've doing it?

You can control how much of the signal you send to the effect. The way you are doing it, you send ALL of the signal to the effect, then use the effect's wet/dry control to control the ENTIRE level of effect on all the tracks you sent there. With sends, you set the effect to 100% wet, and send only as much of each track to the effect that you want. Its just a different way of doing it that offers greater control and flexibility.

Yes. But not really. Say you have 8 drum tracks. You want some reverb on them. So you send them to a bus "Drums", put a reverb you like on the bus, and set the level of the reverb. But what if you only wand a touch of reverb on the Kick, a lot on the snare, and a medium amount on the toms? With sends, you can choose how much of each track to send to the reverb. With your way, you would need multiple busses with multiple reverbs. Same if you had Rythm guitar you wanted a little delay on, and lead guitar you wanted gobs of delay. Just send less of the rhythm signal to the delay bus, and more of the lead. Technically, sure you can get the same sound doing it either way. But which is better on your system, 1 reverb that can get varying amounts from every track in your project to achieve a nice mix, or 7-10 reverbs to account for some tracks needing a lot, medium amounts, and very little.

Jinga, thanks for elaborating.

This is interesting stuff and is likley to open a whole new approach to DAW mixing for me. I've used sends before in the hardware/analog world, but not so much in the DAW world. Thanks.

I've looked, but been unable to find any extensive discussions about the Template here on the Forum. Are there any?

Thanks.

One benefit to using sends is CPU usage reduction. One instance of a reverb can be used for numerous tracks. Another benefit is that by setting up several delay-based sends (reverbs, delays, chorus, etc.) you can have a single track sent to several of these sends at the same time, which can lead to a richer tone...or a bigger mess ;=).

I'm glad someone is still getting use out of this creation. I need to do an update of this using the newer Sonar plugins and some other 'trick' signal configurations. Perhaps at the end of the month.

J

lovely stuff :)

ORIGINAL: jsaras

I'm glad someone is still getting use out of this creation. I need to do an update of this using the newer Sonar plugins and some other 'trick' signal configurations. Perhaps at the end of the month.

J

Jonas, your template became the core of my default template from it's first iteration. Your settings are excellent starting points IMO. I , for one was and continue to be very grateful for you sharing this. Kudo's to you.

consider it bumped. thanks again for all you do for the Sonar Community