Last night I plugged in a new Cakewalk UA25EX and microphone into X1 excitedly. I was getting microphone input through the Master with no problems. But then I decided to route it via a new bus.

In Sonar X1 I right clicked in the busses pane and chose "Insert new stereo bus". I gave it a name "mybus".

Then, I clicked on my audio track. On the left hand side I clicked on the "output" which was currently set to "Master". It would not offer me the option of assigning the track's output to "mybus" - in fact it didn't even list "mybus" as an option.

I'm confused.. what was I doing wrong? Any ideas?

Does mybus have an output?

John

Does mybus have an output?

Yes, Master.

And you are sure that you clicked the out of your audio track? It should list all possible outs for that track. Is it possible that you accidentally clicked on a MIDI's track out.
 

I'll have another go tonight. I was pretty certain I was clicking on the output for the audio track. At any rate a MIDI track shouldn't go to Master. It's a bit of a mind shift having to hunt for track options on the left hand side of the screen when they used to be available in the track itself... I'm wondering if I'm not beginning to become a bit of an old 8.5.3 miser too..

I'm not saying it is a bug yet but it could be one. I tried and it listed the new buss even though I set it to none. I can't think of any reason it wouldn't.

You can insert a bus in many ways:
1. Insert menu select Insert Stereo Buss
2. In Console View - right click in a blank area of the bus pane
3. In the Multi dock select the Bus menu and Insert Stereo buss

to direct the channel to a bus
Select the track you want to direct to a bus i
1. In the Inspector - , Left Click the output widget and choose which ever bus you want to connect to.
2. In track view Expand the track till you see the Output widget and again left click and choose the bus you want
3. In Console View left click on the Output widget and choose the bus you want.

Thanks for your help guys. I think I did these things but it's entirely possible I did something wrong. I'll double check tonight and post my answer.

Mike are you thinking a buss wasn't made? That never occurred to me.

Ontime,
 
Try the bus creation again.  Create a buss and name it  My bus.  Now on the audio track select new bus and you should see the bus name of "My Bus" listed in the output options.  If it doesn't show there is something wrong.   I know my list doesn't change some times so therefore, I see Bus 1 listed instead of what I name the bus.  Look for the Generic name of Bus and the number (Bus 1, Bus 2...)
 
Peace