Assigning a VCA fader to all the drum channels in your mix does the same as grabbing all of their individual faders at once. All that a VCA fader does, in effect, is allow you to adjust the levels of multiple channel faders simultaneously. The most significant difference is that no audio passes through a VCA fader - so, although you’ll see inserts and aux sends on VCA channels, they don’t do anything to the tracks that are being controlled. At first glance, they appear similar in concept to submix buses, but there are important differences. VCA stands for ‘voltage controlled amplifier’ and these have been prevalent in upmarket hardware consoles for many years.
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VCA faders were introduced from Magix’s high-end Sequoia DAW to Samplitude in Pro X2. Submix buses can also be nested for example, you may want to route your electric guitar rhythm tracks to Bus 1 and your acoustic guitar rhythm tracks to Bus 2, then create a third bus named ‘Gtr Mix’ which will take the combined output of your electric and acoustic guitar buses, giving you overall control of the levels of all the guitars, and a place to add further overall processing to them. All mixer track types can be moved in this method. You can position buses anywhere you choose in the mixer: simply click and hold the number header at the top of the fader section and drag left or right. Select the target bus from the list, and all selected tracks will be routed to that bus (Screen 2). (You can also Ctrl-click to add non-contiguous tracks to the selection.) Now go to the bottom of any of the selected channel strips where it says ‘StMast’ and click on the downward arrow. All tracks in between will be selected and highlighted. Once you’ve added a new submix bus you can quickly route the tracks you want to the bus by left-clicking on the track header number of the first track, then Shift-clicking on the last track you want to add. For example, you might want to route all your keyboard tracks to a submix bus, which would give you control of the overall levels of all the keyboard tracks from one fader, with the added advantage of being able to add effects to the submix insert slots that will affect all the tracks routed to this bus. Submix buses are, as the name suggests, used to combine a group of tracks. Screen 2: Routing a track to a submix bus is a simple matter of reassigning its output in the mixer. If you move the first aux bus fader, a new track/channel named ‘AUX 1’ will be created if you move the second aux bus fader, a track named ‘AUX 2’ will appear, and so on.
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It’s also worth noting that if you have no aux buses in the project, as soon as you move an aux bus fader, Samplitude will automatically add an aux bus to the project. One would then use the horizontal aux bus faders located below the gain control on the track channel strip to adjust the send levels to each aux bus. For example, you could have one aux bus set up with a reverb plug-in, another with a delay plug-in and a third with some sort of modulation effect. Even if you manage to fill up all 10 slots, you can keep adding plug-ins indefinitely, but to view or edit plug-ins beyond the 10th one you will need to right-click on the top header marked Plug-Ins to open the Plug-in Manager.Īll audio and instrument tracks have dedicated effects sends which can send simultaneously to multiple aux buses. They can also be hidden or revealed by clicking the adjacent arrow at the far left of the mixer. By default, each aux bus strip has 10 visible plug-in slots, but can be toggled to show just four of them by clicking the ‘-’ or ‘+’ at the top left. The Great AuxĪux buses are used to host your send-effect plug-ins. There are other settings in this window, too, but I will discuss those in another article.
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This configuration can be saved as a preset, or you can load existing presets. These will then be appended to the mixer and the arrange page (VIP).
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Click the ‘+’ or type a number in the text field to specify how many buses you want to add (Screen 1 above). You can add aux or submix buses (and indeed audio and instrument tracks) to the mixer by clicking on the Setup button at the top right-hand corner of the mixer. In fact, there are three other track/channel types: aux buses, submix buses and VCA fader channels. Like most DAWs, Samplitude has other track types besides standard audio and instrument tracks. Samplitude Pro X2’s aux buses, submix buses and VCAs add up to a powerful and flexible routing system.
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Screen 1: New buses and tracks can be added from the Mixer Setup dialogue.