Track to Track Routing (and other mindless musings)

Track to Track Routing

 Track-to-Track Routing opens up a new dimension of control within your home studio - allowing you to patch your synths, audio tracks, and buses to any audio track for real-time rendering. Render your virtual instruments in real time, or bounce down complex reverbs and delays.
 
 
- Was surprised to see this wasn't getting more love on the forum today or yesterday. I don't post a lot, but lurk pretty often. Originally being one of the die hard 8.5 users that despised Skylight and the X series, I moved off to try and find greener pastures (unfortunately, timed perfectly with the current Pro Tools mess... ).
 
Of course you always come back to what you are familiar with. X3 was closer to gelling with me but since the Gibson partnership, I had noticed more and more of an actual "presence" on the forum. The more I saw people requesting features/changes, the more activity came out of the Bakers' camp; follow through on development and support (to Reaper-like proportions).
 
I was going back and forth between SPlat and S1v3. When I got the survey that practically highlighted most of the major forum requests, I knew that Cakewalk was moving in the right direction and that Membership was a moral imperative.
 
The above listed in-development feature is more proof that they appear to be listening and that we, the consumers, have a voice in how the product is turning out. Kudos from a happy customer.

Aaaah.....now I understand. Looks pretty kewell!

Well looky dat.
 
Cake sure is doing their darndest to make any complaints look more and more ludicrous and superficial.
 
lol

I also like Sonar's bussing scheme when it comes to instrument and FX busses, but there are times when I'd like to do parallel processing on the track level, so it'll be really nice to have the best of both worlds. 

Wow, that's awesome. This will really open up some serious studio creativity, and so many folk have asked about it over the years. I can't wait to see how they handle it!
 

Beepster
 
Man... I need a date.

...or just a healthy dose of VCA groups...

Patty Positive with a dash of Carla Cautious!  Beep... you're a hoot!
 
Really lovin' the moves bein' made by da bakers...
 

Fantastic. I've been wanting this feature for ages. Curious to see the precise detail of the implementation.

mudgel
. I think most of the work will be in the making sure that unwanted side effects don't occur.

I think there is a plugin for that...

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk]
WTH even I didn't know this was announced! Someone decided to turn up the heat on me lol :) 
The trickiest part of this is not so much the actual routing. As you know we already can route and mix streams from anywhere via sidechains - thats how sidechaining works. The engine has been designed to handle pretty much any arbitrary routing so thats the least of the problem. The hardest part is doing the infrastructure for virtual ports, and recording virtual ports itself which is very complex. If it turns out the way were planning, this will be a really powerful and elegant feature.
 

That sounds even betterer or better even . . . as long as it's not Beta

OMG.  To be able to route a soft synth to an audio track, and record all the changes I make to the soft synth, including program changes, is something I could use so bad!  As many know, you can already do this, but it involves putting a midi note XXX measures down the track, then doing that what you hear bounce to track thingy.  You just play and stop the rendering process when you are done...you get a message saying the rending was stopped before it was finished (because that midi note is way down there! so you have time to record what you wanted), do you want to keep it anyway, and you say yes, and you get a wave file on a new track with what you recorded.
 
So maybe recording a virtual port can have something to do with the rendering function...I always thought a window that contained all the things I did to record would have been enough.  But it's still I guess inferior to doing it right.
 
In Development.  WOW!  I like it!

I just hope that output choice list will be modified too. Now in big projects this list of audio interface outputs, buses, side-chain plug-ins is already too long, and it takes time to scroll it down. If all audio tracks will be added there, it will be endless.

Adq
I just hope that output choice list will be modified too.

It's the Input list that will be affected by this feature. Physical interface driver inputs are already grouped into a branch of the drop-down list. If each soft synth gets its own branch, the list should be pretty manageable. If not, having even a few multi-out synths in the project would make for an immense list. I trust the Bakers will address this in a reasonable way.
 
 

Noel Borthwick [Cakewalk
No you won't see endless track lists. We have something much cooler planned :)

Drug and drop binding??? :-)
But anyway I hope that existing functionality will not suffer.
My hopes are so contradictory...