doublepizzatration
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[Solved] No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
 I'm not sure where it went, but I had to reinstall Sonar X2 and it was gone. I used to be able to drop stuff in here to equalize and level out the master and stuff, how can I get this back?
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noynekker
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 01:51:13
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Your screenshot shows the inspector view, and the master output to your audio interface.
Don't think you can drag and drop stuff here. You need to toggle on the "master bus" which has the FX bin.
Can't exactly tell from your screen shot, but isn't that the master bus to left ?
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 01:55:49
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Every now and then, the bus turns up blank when I make a change to the track. All I do is change the focus to a different track , then go back to the original track and the bus is back. I think it's a graphics thing with Sonar, but I've never had it disappear and not come back. Is this what's happening to you?
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 01:56:13
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thats not your master bus. that is the main out to your soundcard.
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doublepizzatration
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 01:58:30
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Every now and then, the bus turns up blank when I make a change to the track. All I do is change the focus to a different track , then go back to the original track and the bus is back. I think it's a graphics thing with Sonar, but I've never had it disappear and not come back. Is this what's happening to you?
I don't believe so. perfectprint
thats not your master bus. that is the main out to your soundcard.
How do I view my master bus?
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doublepizzatration
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 02:02:45
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Alright, I may have answered my own question. I right clicked on the right side of the console in the grey area next to what I'm assuming is the "main out to my soundcard", once I right clicked, the option to "Insert Stereo Bus" or "Insert Surround Bus" appeared, I chose "Insert Stereo Bus", I should be able to route everything to this for FX right?
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doublepizzatration
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 02:06:32
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I still can't get it to work, I suck at this. I don't know why it was working fine before. Not sure what happened.
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noynekker
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 02:07:53
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Did you make a stereo "master" bus, and send all tracks in your project to it, and then send that master bus to the audio interface output ? If so, at the bottom of the track view there is a button to show/hide the bus pane, then you can select the master bus and it will show up in the inspector view, then you can drag things onto the FX bin.
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 02:15:09
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noynekker
Did you make a stereo "master" bus, and send all tracks in your project to it, and then send that master bus to the audio interface output ? If so, at the bottom of the track view there is a button to show/hide the bus pane, then you can select the master bus and it will show up in the inspector view.
Just did that, lagging like crazy now. Not sure whats happening here, about 13 tracks. I tried freezing all of them to see if that helped reduce lag but nope.
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 02:22:58
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Lagging ? Latency ? If you've added a plugin to the master bus that introduces latency, you may need to adjust your audio interface settings to a higher buffer size to handle that plugin. What plugin are you adding ?
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 09:00:25
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A good place to start looking at your routing is in console view... A "master" bus is just like any other bus. Signal(s) are purposely routed there for summing / processing. As mentioned above, the master bus is usually purposely routed to the soundcard outputs by the user.
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 09:50:58
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To summarize: - The Bus labeled "Master" is the master output to your audio interface, not the master mix bus.
- The Normal template creates a master bus for mixdown. If it's not there, you will need to create one and send your channels to that master mix bus.
- Some plug-ins, particularly dynamics processors, have a function called "look-ahead." This allows them to "predict" transients and act accordingly. Sometimes toggling the PDC button will help. However, I use processors with look-head only for mixdown, not tracking.
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 13:41:50
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Anderton
To summarize:
- The Bus labeled "Master" is the master output to your audio interface, not the master mix bus.
- The Normal template creates a master bus for mixdown. If it's not there, you will need to create one and send your channels to that master mix bus.
- Some plug-ins, particularly dynamics processors, have a function called "look-ahead." This allows them to "predict" transients and act accordingly. Sometimes toggling the PDC button will help. However, I use processors with look-head only for mixdown, not tracking.
Thanks for all of the help!
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Living Room Rocker
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/06 15:22:35
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Just for the sake of clarification, there are Audio & MIDI Track strips, Bus strips and Master/mains output strips. These are all divided into sections across the Console View. The mains outputs strips (eg. channeled to monitors/speakers, headphones, etc., depending on how many outputs your soundcard has and the number of those outputs checked in Preferences) do not have an FX bin or PC processing.
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P.S. At times the words "channel," "strip" and "signal" may be used interchangeably, but they are specific to parts of a studio setup. That is, a signal is the actual sound or electric "signal" traveling through cables, for instance; a strip identifies the section of controls designated to a specific track or bus on a console; and a channel is the route the signal takes in, through and out of the studio setup.
Just saying.
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Re: No FX slot on MASTER channel?! Where'd it go!? Help!
2014/11/07 19:54:13
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Another good way to see this is that:
-Tracks have a black fader
-Busses have a blue fader
-Mains have a fader
This is the case if you you don't use a mod to change the color of your faders for tracks, busses, and mains.
Tracks and Busses have an FX Bin, but the Mains do not.
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