Hi,
Can I run this past my fellow SONARites? (as there seems to be a lot of ways to achieve this)
 
Basically, I'm looking to record a guitar track, and then freeze it with amp sim etc - and then print the FX to a seperate track.
 
Here's what I've done:
Set up a send from the guitar track - to a new aux track. FX on the aux track - set to 100% wet
(so far so good)
To bounce this - I just -record- on to the aux track - and I'll have a print of the FX.
 
This works fine - and then I guess I'll just set the original "send" level to 0 (sine the FX are now printed on my aux track)
 
Does this sound like a sensible way to print my guitar track, with the FX printed seperately?
It just feels slightly counter-intuitive, as I'm not "bouncing" or "freezing" anything (and then archiving the original tracks)
 
Thanks for any input...
 
EDIT - I see that "recording" the aux track, just prints the -guitar- part, which then runs through the FX on the aux track.
This can then be bounced - as the "FX only" track.
Is this too long winded?
 

J,
I think you can put the FX on the original rack, set to 100%, Send to the aux track, arm and record the aux.
Then you can set the send to 0 and remove the FX.
Haven't tried it, but the logic seems sound.
 
 

Hi jbraner,
Yep, either the way you mention in your edit or the way jatoth mentioned will work. That said, unless recording to an aux track gets you something from the effect you're using I'd just make a copy of the original track, add an effect and then bounce/freeze it.
 
Now, if you wanted to, say, send a single track to four different tracks, each with their own amp sims or something, then I might use the aux track method with a patch point, but the duplicate/freeze method is faster for what you're describing.
 
Dean

Thanks for the replies J and Dean. Both alternatives sound like the same amount of "work" - so I'll think about which method is the least amount of "convolution" ;-)

Also, If you just disable Input Echo on the Aux track, you don't have to alter the Send on the source track.
 
 

I'll have to check that. The more I think about it - "recording" to the aux track is no different to just cloning the original one - or copying the frozen/bounced audio from the original - as Dean says...