Besides, you can group busses and link the faders so you can move them altogether with one movement.

Atsuko
Besides, you can group busses and link the faders so you can move them altogether with one movement.

Well, but you can do that with regular tracks too -
 
RB

Yes, but, as we're talking about busses....

Atsuko
Yes, but, as we're talking about busses....

Ah, I see - That's cool.  I thought you were mentioning grouping buses as something unique with them that couldn't be done with tracks, since the original topic was about using a track instead of a bus.  I'm with your program now.
 
RB

Cheers!!

In addition to whether the plugin acting as a summing amp affects the sound, I wonder what happens if you try to "Freeze" the submixed track?
 
Regards,
Dan
 

I always like it when people come up with new tricks like this. It may have some use that's not immediately apparent...always useful to have another potential tool in the toolset.

Yeah I don't know why the OP is getting flak for this, it's a great trick!
 
And obviously, the biggest reason to do it is organization and ergonomics. I think SONAR will eventually integrate buses and tracks in the Track View, it just makes things easier. Then we could take that Shift-B bus pane and make it a custom area where we can put whatever tracks we want. In fact, we can have tabs of them for quickly jumping to custom groups. AND we can still have our buses in the Track View arranged however we want. 
 
This gets even better when you use multiple gain stages or split sub-groups out for things like parallel compression. I've many times ended up with VOX-SUB buses that then feed into a VOX-MAIN bus after some weirdo routing. 
 
And yes, why NOT allow routing audio from a track into another track? Sure we can bounce down but that takes us out of the zone and now we have to go new track hunting and moving it to folders etc etc. If we could just insert a track and quickly render some experiments or subs we could move faster. Not to mention whatever weirdo things we might be able to do with it. Sheesh someone using Ableton figured out how to make a wobble by chaining a billion things together and now there's a whole dang sub-genre of electronic music from it! (dubstep in case you were wondering).
 

This was pretty clever, kudos!

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