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Subject:Point of view on Bus Tracks Posted by: setfan Date:9/4/2003 12:09:30 PM Hello everybody in the forum. I have a question on bus tracks. I'm not a newbie on Acid, but i'm wondering how do other acid's users work with bus tracks. In general, i create around 4 to 8 bus tracks group by family of sounds and type: Drums, bass, synths, etc... My goal it's to take profit of better quality for mixing levels, but to use my pro audio card a luna2 and its plugins. To record all the bus, i use the audio record, which in fact drive data through the card, digitally. Is there a better way, and a way to use the plugins and the abilities of my card. Thancks for the answers and good vibes to all. setfan
Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks Reply by: Iacobus Date:9/4/2003 3:13:02 PM Hello setfan, I usually use the Bus Track view when I want to assign a group of tracks to a specific task, whether it's to effects or to a bus, or other tasks such as panning. Not sure I understand the second half of your post on recording. You really can't do anything with the recording (like bus assignment) until you're done recording. HTH, Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page
Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks Reply by: setfan Date:9/4/2003 5:13:54 PM Well Iacobus, Thancks for the beginning of reply. I don't know what is your hardware and software configuration, but for mine; i use as i wrote in my first message a luna 2 audio card. You have "true" bus or drivers in which your audio bus went through, without affecting each other. i can use particuliar plugins delivered on my audiocard and they can be used on this bus. Each bus of acid go through the bus of the audiocard, as on a true console in a studio. you assign different sub-mix to simplify your mix and assign as in Acid, Fxs on the audio. Well, i always worked on acid with that bus to have good dynamics, precise sounds and less distorsion as you can have when you assign too much sound to a simple two "left+right" channel. To record these bus, i never use the render, i record all the session as if i was recording a new track as for recording vocals, guitars. I hope that you will better understand me with these new explanations. Read you soon, Setfan
Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks Reply by: Iacobus Date:9/5/2003 11:35:43 AM Sounds like you're on the right track. (pardon the pun) So you route specific tracks out through a specific bus to the Luna's hardware? This would be ideal, especially if you wanted to use the Luna's on-board effects. Iacobus ------- RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:Point of view on Bus Tracks

Posted by: setfan

Date:9/4/2003 12:09:30 PM

Hello everybody in the forum.

I have a question on bus tracks. I'm not a newbie on Acid, but i'm wondering how do other acid's users work with bus tracks. In general, i create around 4 to 8 bus tracks group by family of sounds and type: Drums, bass, synths, etc... My goal it's to take profit of better quality for mixing levels, but to use my pro audio card a luna2 and its plugins. To record all the bus, i use the audio record, which in fact drive data through the card, digitally. Is there a better way, and a way to use the plugins and the abilities of my card.
Thancks for the answers and good vibes to all.
setfan

Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:9/4/2003 3:13:02 PM

Hello setfan,

I usually use the Bus Track view when I want to assign a group of tracks to a specific task, whether it's to effects or to a bus, or other tasks such as panning.

Not sure I understand the second half of your post on recording. You really can't do anything with the recording (like bus assignment) until you're done recording.

HTH,
Iacobus
-------
RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page

Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks

Reply by: setfan

Date:9/4/2003 5:13:54 PM

Well Iacobus,

Thancks for the beginning of reply. I don't know what is your hardware and software configuration, but for mine; i use as i wrote in my first message a luna 2 audio card. You have "true" bus or drivers in which your audio bus went through, without affecting each other. i can use particuliar plugins delivered on my audiocard and they can be used on this bus. Each bus of acid go through the bus of the audiocard, as on a true console in a studio.
you assign different sub-mix to simplify your mix and assign as in Acid, Fxs on the audio. Well, i always worked on acid with that bus to have good dynamics, precise sounds and less distorsion as you can have when you assign too much sound to a simple two "left+right" channel. To record these bus, i never use the render, i record all the session as if i was recording a new track as for recording vocals, guitars.
I hope that you will better understand me with these new explanations.
Read you soon,
Setfan

Subject:RE: Point of view on Bus Tracks

Reply by: Iacobus

Date:9/5/2003 11:35:43 AM

Sounds like you're on the right track. (pardon the pun)

So you route specific tracks out through a specific bus to the Luna's hardware? This would be ideal, especially if you wanted to use the Luna's on-board effects.

Iacobus
-------
RodelWorks - Original Music for the Unafraid
mD's ACIDplanet Page