In the way that reggae dub would sound
 
i would like to do something like add heavy reverb or echo to a single snare drum note
i suppose the old reggae tricks are to have everything on it's own track and do a lot of manual tweaking during the recording but I would prefer to have everything automated
 
thanks much :)

Hopefully the snare is on it's own track. If this is the case create a bus with the effects on it and automate the send volume to the bus.

well the drums are currently all on one track so good to know that much won't work!
will be easy enough to pull these beats out to their own track......just have to figure out how a bus works now
 
i'll be back after i've read more.  i know right now i'm messing things up by having like 8 instances of dimension pro open when i can likely be "routing the outputs" or whatever it is i'm not grasping
 
when you say automate the volume to the bus.....are you suggesting that i can have a full snare track....where most of the beats have the normal reverb etc but for a given beat i can also increase the "volume" to a bus that will trigger the effect?  when you say volume send to the bus.....do you truly mean volume....or more like input/output?  what i mean is.....would i have volume spikes whenever using the effect?  i wouldn't think so but..... :)
 
 
thanks again scook!
 
 

One way if it's only a few notes, Is insert a new midi track and place the snare hits where you want them. Now bounce this track to audio. In your master section insert a new stereo bus and name it snare efx and insert a reverb or delay or even both in the bin. 
Now insert a send from your snare track and point it at that bus. You could even share this efxs track with you vocals or what ever. 
 
You could leave the track as midi and send it to session drummer or ? and set up multiple outputs and put the send on the one with the snare. 
There all sorts of way's to do this. 

haha definitely some greek in that answer but i think once i understand busses and routing a bit better this advice will come in very handy
 
thanks very much for the direction guys :)

If the drum track is audio (as opposed to a soft synth), create a new track below, drag across the timeline up top to highlight the approximate region of the snare hit, then hold the ctl and shift keys down while dragging that snare hit down into the new track. Adjust the start and end times of the new clip so there's just the drum hit (with a gradual fade-in and fade-out). Then put reverb or echo or whatever effect you want onto the new track.
 
Once you've mastered this technique, have some fun with it: reverse the clip and move it forward in time to give your big snare hit a really cool effect.

Bitflipper beat me to it.... that was the exact thing I was planning to recommend.
 
I have actually used that very thing in a song or two in the past......very likely for other reasons but none the less, it works.

great stuff.....i did a pretty good job of getting the effect i wanted last night
 
 
bitflipper - why do you say audio as opposed to soft synth?
could i not take the session drummer simple instrument track, split it into midi/audio....and then perform the same task to the audio file as what you are suggesting?
 
 
thanks much all this opens up a world for me :)

I believe Bit is referring to no MIDI at all. The original post did not make it clear the drum sounds were from a MIDI track using a soft synth, a collection of audio loops or a recorded drum session using a live drummer.

perfect thanks!