Subject:Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Posted by: Grazie

Date:3/31/2005 1:00:23 PM

Wouldn't it be neat if when you inserted a Bus - BUS A - It came back with the Track name, in ACID that would be the Loop for that track - yes? Just had 8 tracks and found it a real pain to name the busses . . . wouldn't it be nice if ACID did this automatically?

Any thoughts? Stupid idea?

Grazie

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: Klirrfaktor

Date:3/31/2005 1:18:23 PM

thing is.. you can add more than one track to a bus.. so which one should it use the name from? just the first?? i was also thinking about that thing.. because having an overview about the busses and tracks is difficult after a few tracks ;-/

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/31/2005 4:44:34 PM

...and if ACID had a Script API like Vegas and Sound Forge I could probably write you a script to do just that. So wouldn’t it be great of ACID had scripting so we could automate a lot of the tedious tasks like this? ;-)

~jr

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: Grazie

Date:3/31/2005 7:29:12 PM

K! "thing is.. you can add more than one track to a bus.." true true . .. well, there should be Sub-Busses then?!? HAH! And maybe a proper virtual Mixing Desk too! No?

JR? Do I smell "Scripting for ACID" in the wings? Do I?My pressssusshhssss ... prescioussssss .. . . . My precious?

You know something we don't?

Grazie

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:3/31/2005 10:39:32 PM

> You know something we don't?

Nope, I wish I did. :( The way that you could help is to submit a product suggestion to Sony to add it. Tell them the kind of things you’d like to see scripted. I think it would enhance ACID to have it... but I’m only one voice.

~jr

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: Illogical

Date:4/1/2005 8:19:01 AM

I'm a bit unclear about the point of a bus if you're only assigning one track to it, or requiring a sub-buss for each track within a bus. Nonetheless, I agree that setting up and naming busses can be a bit of a pain.

My solution has been to set up a couple templates. Open up a new project, insert six busses or so, name them in an appropriate way (I usually use Drums, Bass, Leads, Pads, Etc, Vox), add plug-ins to each buss to create a channel strip (EQ, Compressor and whatever else you think you'd use more often than not on a particular buss). Leave all the settings flat, and save the project as "Project Template" or whatever, and then just load it up whenever you start a new project. (Justmake sure you save new projects with a new name right away so you don't save over your template). Of course you might have to add a buss or rename one to suit the needs of any particular project, but having the foundation ready to go has saved me a lot of time over the years.

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: flow

Date:4/1/2005 9:14:02 AM

it'd be nice to be able to route nested tracks to bus or - maybe - having a volume slider on the nest.

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: Illogical

Date:4/1/2005 1:08:47 PM

"it'd be nice to be able to route nested tracks to bus or - maybe - having a volume slider on the nest."

If you're referring to the folder tracks, I agree you should be able to route everything in a folder as a group to any given bus. Volume control, I thought the same thing initially, but it seems like there's so many places to adjust the volume already, that it would just make it even more complicated to determine what's affecting your audio level. You can already adjust track level, level of individual events on a track, plus create a volume envelope on the track, then you route to a bus and can use that bus's volume slider, plus volume automation on that bus. Sometimes, revisiting an old project, it can take some digging to determine what's causing an audio level to drop off or peak in certain places, having a volume control on the folders would just add another layer of complexity there, IMHO. Plus, if you route all the tracks to a specific buss, you can always just use that bus to adjust volume. Maybe a better idea would be a quick button to select all tracks in a given folder...I mean there's a lot of open real estate on those folder tracks, so a select all button wouldn't be taking up any needed space and would allow you to make the same global controls you're looking for without adding another layer to the onion. This could be used for quick routing of tracks to busses as well, in fact it's a fabulous idea. You're welcome, Sony...no charge!

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: Martian

Date:4/1/2005 3:49:48 PM

Now that we have folder tracks it could be cool if was possible to add a Volume slider on it. I usually make a folder for drums, guitar, bass etc. and thought it would be nice to be able to controll the level of the folder. I do make busses and that is fine but maybe the bus could be placed on the foldertrack? or maybe call it somethin intirely different....

Then I have an issue with the projekt folders placed on my desktop. When I bring a folder from home to my "studio" I always end up placing it on the desktop because i carry it with me on a pendrive. Normally I bring it to listen to it on another system and it often end up with the fact that I decide to record a little on the project. When I press record and the window opens I have to choose a folder to record in. To record on the folder on the desktop I have to browse through:Harddisc:,Documents and settings, My username, Desktop and THEN my folder. All other browsers I work with has the desktop as the very first choice and makes it all easier.

Also right now I have a problem with the recording window. It suddently doesn´t seem to "remember" the last folder I recorded in. Everytime I need to make a new take I have to browse again and again....

That was it for now :-)

Martian

Subject:RE: Auto Bus Naming from Tracks?

Reply by: JohnnyRoy

Date:4/1/2005 5:29:56 PM

> I'm a bit unclear about the point of a bus if you're only assigning one track to it,

Actually, one reason would be to overcome the fact that ACID tracks don’t have VU meters so it makes it difficult to mix with them. Assigning a track to a bus at least gives you a visual indicator of the volume. Just a workaround, otherwise I agree with you, it makes little sense to assign a single tracks to single buses.

> Also right now I have a problem with the recording window. It suddently doesn´t seem to "remember" the last folder I recorded in. Everytime I need to make a new take I have to browse again and again...

You might want to look into the new Folder options and configure ACID so that it saves everything in the project folder. Then everything will default to one place for each project. That’s what I do.

~jr