Thats easy.

What I do often, is group things on the mixer channel so that its easy to apply FX to entire groups.

I usually group things like bassline, leads, vocals, pads all together.

The way I do is is just to disable routing to the master channel, and then send them all to the same channel on the mixer. Its exactly like using a send, except you just bus to a mixer channel instead.

As for your specific question, send the pads to their own group, then just put a filter on that and automate its cutoff. Easy as pie.

Using groups like this is a great way to apply FX to overall sounds, for example minor sidechaining on the leads and pads. Or if you want to use a flanger or phaser, its much easier on the group than setting up multiple copies and then automating them all.

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Originally posted by Pagan-za Thats easy. What I do often, is group things on the mixer channel so that its easy to apply FX to entire groups. I usually group things like bassline, leads, vocals, pads all together. The way I do is is just to disable routing to the master channel, and then send them all to the same channel on the mixer. Its exactly like using a send, except you just bus to a mixer channel instead. As for your specific question, send the pads to their own group, then just put a filter on that and automate its cutoff. Easy as pie. Using groups like this is a great way to apply FX to overall sounds, for example minor sidechaining on the leads and pads. Or if you want to use a flanger or phaser, its much easier on the group than setting up multiple copies and then automating them all.

Hey, sounds great man, thanks for the reply. However, I tried doing the rerouting thing last night, and it screwed up the sends for all my channels but I luckily was able to fix that and rerouted all the channels to the master channel again. Can you just quickly explain how I can disable a specific channel from being routed to the master channel and instead route it to a new mixer channel? Or at least point me to a thread discussing the matter? Because as soon as I figure out how that's done, I can definitely go on from there with the automating and stuff.

Lastly, even if I reroute each groups of instruments (pads, leads, etc..) to a separate group mixer channel (a channel for the pads, another for the leads, etc...) is there a way to then route these group channels back to the master channel again? Just in case I want to apply an effect an effect to all the tracks later? Like a limiter, compression, etc.

I had an example saved somewhere but I cant find it now and I'm about to leave work.

But, in a nutshell. If you look at the sends, the volume knob for them has a little orange light underneath it, that shows its activated.

Lets say you want to route channel 3,4, and 5 to a new channel and disable them from the master channel. All you do is select 3, then click on the channels orange light(that will be disabled at first) on the channel you want to send to. If it turns orange, its getting signal from another mixer channel. The opposite applies, to cancel a routing, just click on the orange light, when it turns off, its disabled.

So just click on 3,4,5 and in turn for each click on the light on the new channel, and then go back to 3,4,5 and click on the orange light for the master channel in turn. And its as simple as that.

Here is a quick example: http://i.imgur.com/FDpZ8.jpg
Channel 3 is unrouted from the master and sending to 4.

As for the last question. You can route as many times as you like before going back to the master channel. Run out of FX slots? No problem, just unroute from the master and send to a new channel, and you have 9 more fx slots to use. Also, you dont have to worry about making sure that everything is being sent to the master. Everything defaults to that. You only have to make sure you disable routing to the master when you start grouping things together, or else you get a dry/wet effect going on.

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On the arrow above the FX icon on the mixer, right click and select "route to this track only"

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Last edited by skyhunter on Jul-14-2011 at 17:58