New FX Bin vs ProChannel

I'm pleased with the new features to be sure.

I'm just mulling the ProChannel versus the stackable FX bin.

Since at least X2 I had pretty much stopped using the FX Bin, since I could insert one or more FX bins into the ProChannel of a track or bus as FX chain module(s). That way I could use the most optimal bits as needed from either a ProChannel module or from non ProChannel effect(s), and mix around the flow of that signal as needed per track or bus.

Now with the stackable FX bin feature which looks kind of handy for the console I wonder if I'll start using the FX bin again more often. But if I did, the one bin won't be sandwiched between ProChannel modules in a mix and match mode which works so well.

Since I want effects sandwiched between ProChannel modules, I'm kind of suspecting I'll stay with using FX chain modules in the ProChannel after all, and not use this new stackable FX bin feature at all.

I will definitely use multiple sends feature - that's a for sure!

Wondering what other ProChannel aficionados think in this regard.

Wow Dan I listened to a couple of your tracks. Great stuff:-) I take it you use "real" Guitar and Bass.  You program drums? they are so good it's hard to tell. AD2?   Keep up the good work, very pro sounding 

donchilcott
Wow Dan I listened to a couple of your tracks. Great stuff:-) I take it you use "real" Guitar and Bass.  You program drums? they are so good it's hard to tell. AD2?   Keep up the good work, very pro sounding 

Agree! Oh to be creating drums like you.... I'm such an old baby....


 

I think Cakewalk should stop artificially restricting ProChannel modules to ProChannel. They're just normal VST plugins (with the exception of the EQ, i think), and there's no reason, beyond Cakewalk forcing it to be so, that they couldn't be used in the FX bin.

Vastman

donchilcott
Wow Dan I listened to a couple of your tracks. Great stuff:-) I take it you use "real" Guitar and Bass.  You program drums? they are so good it's hard to tell. AD2?   Keep up the good work, very pro sounding 

Agree! Oh to be creating drums like you.... I'm such an old baby....


 

The easiest way I can suggest to learn is to take a favorite song, import it into Sonar, then load up a drum VST and play along. Keep layering drums until you have recreated as much as you can hear. Finally, play back the finished tracks and mute the original periodically to see what you got right and what is missing. I highly recommend a decent midi keyboard that has a decent velocity sensitivity scale. That's where the magic is.
 
Regards,
Dan