How do you route all of your buses and auxes through a master bus?  I see where I can designate a bus as default, but what else do I have to do to get the other buses and auxes through it?

Thanks in advance.

Any other creative bus routing things you guys use on a regular basis?

For existing tracks and buses, select the bus you designated as the Master in the track/bus output dropdown. You can perform the task all at once by selecting the tracks/buses that should go to the master, hold the Control key while making the selection in one of the track/bus output dropdown. New tracks and buses will automatically point to it.

I typically route tracks to busses ie: kick, snare, hh, to "drum bus" - guitar tracks to "guitar bus" - vocals to "vocal bus" etc.  I then route those busses to the "master bus".  That way I can adjust an overall level or apply an effect or EQ to just that section of instruments.  There are some individual tracks that I might then route directly to the "master bus" if they stand alone.

What Bret said. Like say if you got all your drums volume levels set the way you want between each other, but at the same time you think your drums as a whole are a bit too loud, well if you have them grouped to a buss, you can lower the volume of the buss, and youll be lowering all the drums' volumes at once, so they maintain the same relationship between each other. Also compressing a group buss can help to mesh everything in that group together, and small amount of compression on the master buss overall is worth a try if youre not doing that already.

Thanks guys, it's a great feature.  I longed for this feature back when I was using Sonar 2 (but I was too cheap to do anything about it). 

    Greetings member,
Just a note. I like to do most of the things I hear here. The only difference I do is use more buss's to go to out.
Meaning:
          I group all drums to drum buss, sometimes making a buss for percussion. Bass's to base buss, guitars to guitar buss, keyboards to key buss.........etc. The biggest change is have two main buss's out. One for drums/bass, one for all others. Sometimes I even have a third buss for all vocals. I route all the buss's to the same out of my audio card. Sonar is so versatile that only you have the final say.
I say experiment! It's all digital man.
      Have some fun,
         MJ

Hey while we're on the subject of busses can someone walk me through setting up an fx send? Is it signal to fx buss to output or is it signal to fx buss then back to signal?

If you substitute track for signal the answer becomes clear.

You would want to have the send goto an aux (FX) buss and then out to the master buss  You can't have a buss out to a track. 

Thanks it made more sense while I was typing it 

Oh but will I be able to pan the aux buss to a different location than the original signal?