Grouping or Sub-Mix

After writing this it did occur to me that I should clarify something.  I imagine one solution would be to create a bus but because of the way the V-Studio Console works, it would be easier to mix if I had a track fader instead of a bus since the V-S Console basically can be fader or bus but not both at the same time.

So, this triggers a thought: could I create a track and just route the output of the tracks to be grouped to the new track instead of to the Master Bus?  Seems like that might work.

Can you route a whole folder instead of routing them 1-by-1.

synkrotron...no worries.  What you said is also interesting.

You don't appear to be able to route a track, or tracks, to another track. Only to buses.

synkrotron


You don't appear to be able to route a track, or tracks, to another track. Only to buses.

That's what I'm thinking, + I haven't been able to figure out how to hide tracks on the mixer...

Linear Phase

I haven't been able to figure out how to hide tracks on the mixer... 

What? In Console View? I just right click on the track I want to hide and select "Hide Track." I hope I'm not stating the obvious here??


Or you can bring up Track Manager by pressing H

Seth Perlstein [Cakewalk
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Definitely route said tracks to a bus.

Thanks for confirming that Seth

Konradh,

Its a feature called Fader Lock. Just Command + Select (I think that's the key combo, might be another key + Select) a track on the Console. You will see an asterisk appear next to the name of the track in the scribble strip when it is locked. This works for tracks and buses.

SP

For anyone who wants to do this, Seth is right but here are the details:

• Route the tracks to be grouped to a new bus instead of Master (or Main, or whatever your primary bus is).  Example: Create a bus called Harmonies and send all the vocal harmonies there instead of to Master.  (Of course, route the new bus to Master.)
• Mix the individual tracks the way you want.
• Switch the V-Studio Console (talking about the hardware, not the Sonar Console view here) to Bus view.
• Hold down SHIFT and Press Select on the Bus that has the groups. (These are the shift and select buttons on the actual hardware console.)
• Now when you switch the console back to Track view, the Bus with the grouped faders still shows up on the console and you can hide the individual tracks.
•  Shift+Select a second time unfreezes the bus and gets it off the console (until you switch back to bus view).

This technique allows you to have a console with a mix of bus and track faders.  You can have a single fader for drums, one for harmonies, one for the string section, etc. alongside your normal individual faders.  This makes mixing way easier once you have the relative levels set within each group.