Maybe we're all bozos on this bus.....but I digress.

yorolpal
Yup...that would do it Craig but I don't know why you couldn't route a single tracks output to two different busses. You wouldn't be returning anything to the track. You'd simply be outputting the busses to your master.

I know what you are talking about.
The only program I know that does this is REAPER. It allows assignment of as many
INPUT/OUTPUTS from/to a TRACK as a user deems necessary, output to any available on your interface(s).
Also, REAPER doesn't make a distinction between tracks and busses so
setting up parallel processing is easy in one view.
 
If this what you are after, why not make a feature request or get a bunch of folks to
do so in order to raise it's priority to the Bakers?
 
Mel

Yes. That is what I'm after...thanks.

OldTimerNewComer
I know what you are talking about.
The only program I know that does this is REAPER. It allows assignment of as many
INPUT/OUTPUTS from/to a TRACK as a user deems necessary, output to any available on your interface(s).
Also, REAPER doesn't make a distinction between tracks and busses so
setting up parallel processing is easy in one view.
 
Mel

+1 REAPER is a very capable bit of gear, with many handy and desirable features, I think a lot of people get hung up on the depth of configure-ability it has, and the look and interface, the latter 2 can be overcome via custom themes, of which there are many, the former, well it's really just a one time set and forget for the most part, all be it quite depthy, and with the custom floating toolbars, life can be made really as you wish it. 

An easy and quick work-around, if you happen to own REAPER,
would be to use REAPER as a REWIRE Slave.
 
Route whatever outputs from tracks to appropriate ones in REAPER
through REWIRE, then do your parallel processing THERE.
Route the REAPER output to a Master Bus in SONAR.
 
SONAR's Audio Engine would still control the final output that way,
so no loss in audio quality, I would expect.
This is what I would do as I prefer SONAR's engine to REAPER's.
 
Mel

yorolpal
No...not a send...that's how I do it now.  I mean just the ability to insert more than one bus on a track so it gets sent to two different busses.  Like on analog consoles of old.  The easiest (read lazy-assed...yet most efficient) way to set up parallel compression, say.  Buss 1 is your main drum buss...Buss 2 is your squash the livin bejeezus out of it.  Route to both and season to taste in the mix.  Also, it's more intuitive...at least to me and a bunch of other old school engineers. 
 
Guess not then.  Fine and dandy.  I'll just keep "sendin" as per usual :-)
 
PS: I changed the title to, hopefully, avoid confusion.

 
Cakewalk documents using sends as the ONLY way to perform parallel compression in Sonar and suggest using them.  I guess they were aware other DAWS had other ways of performing this.
 
Please read their Parallel Compression Setup Blog for Sonar
 
 

Jesse G

yorolpal
No...not a send...that's how I do it now.  I mean just the ability to insert more than one bus on a track so it gets sent to two different busses.  Like on analog consoles of old.  The easiest (read lazy-assed...yet most efficient) way to set up parallel compression, say.  Buss 1 is your main drum buss...Buss 2 is your squash the livin bejeezus out of it.  Route to both and season to taste in the mix.  Also, it's more intuitive...at least to me and a bunch of other old school engineers. 
 
Guess not then.  Fine and dandy.  I'll just keep "sendin" as per usual :-)
 
PS: I changed the title to, hopefully, avoid confusion.

 
Cakewalk documents using sends as the ONLY way to perform parallel compression in Sonar and suggest using them.  I guess they were aware other DAWS had other ways of performing this.
 
Please read their Parallel Compression Setup Blog for Sonar
 
 

 

Jesse G
"in Sonar"

 
The thing I love most about DAWs, and computers in general, is the many ways
different programs can be extended 3rd party.
I am quite sure the Bakers were thinking of this when they decided to implement ReWire.
 
I don't think it diminishes EITHER program to be easily used in concert with another.
 
Mel

I think I understand what he wants and the methods spoken of should suffice...

But if another alternative is desired, how about using the user-created plugin... I think it's called sidechain that allows you to send to another input... This can be placed anywhere in the fx chain to create a split point... Send to the other input and wallup it with the desired comp an have the actual output of each of the two inputs to go to a common drum bus?

Keni
I think I understand what he wants and the methods spoken of should suffice...

But if another alternative is desired, how about using the user-created plugin... I think it's called sidechain that allows you to send to another input... This can be placed anywhere in the fx chain to create a split point... Send to the other input and wallup it with the desired comp an have the actual output of each of the two inputs to go to a common drum bus?

excellent.

I totally forgot about the sidechain plugin, very good catch Keni, ... Very good indeed.