xplain me about busses and routing

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Member Since: Oct 16, 2007

greetings to all
i have a problem or atleast i want ot understand about routing.
if any one can explain me about routing and busses would be a great help
i am using cubase le4

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MASSIVE Mastering, LLC
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Since: Aug 05, 2008


Oct 04, 2008 01:47 am

Routing is where you send the signals. Busses are how you group them together.

I tune down down...
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Since: Jun 11, 2007


Oct 04, 2008 01:49 pm

Buses = The big yellow things kids take to school. Some(like me) took the shorter buses because we are special.

Routes = The pattern taken to get to a specified location.


I'm sorry... I had too. :P
MM is right though.

www.TheLondonProject.ca
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Since: Feb 07, 2005


Oct 04, 2008 02:49 pm

[quote]Buses = The big yellow things kids take to school. Some(like me) took the shorter buses because we are special.

Routes = The pattern taken to get to a specified location. [/quote]

There's a lot of truth in that actually.

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Oct 04, 2008 04:10 pm

OK, lets say you have 6 drum tracks that you want a separate reverb or compressor on then the rest of the mix. You would create a separate buss, which is simply another channel strip. The in the output section of the drums track you would select the new buss as its target, that is routing. Then the buss can have a reverb or whatever added to it for use on the all the drum tracks that are routed to it. The buss itself is then routed to the master or wherever you need it to go.

This works as well once you have all your drum levels set perfectly and you simply want to have one main control to bring their level up or down.

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Since: Oct 16, 2007


Oct 05, 2008 04:38 pm

thanks that is cool info
but now how do i assign the busses
ok i can go and read about it but i still rather ask you kindly i know you would be happy to let me know
like taking the yellow bus
by the way i hope you had a good weekend and make the best out of it
hmmm
thanks again

Czar of Midi
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Since: Apr 04, 2002


Oct 05, 2008 09:36 pm

I don't use Cubase le4 so I'm not exactly sure how they are adding a buss. It is usually in one of the drop down menu's at the top or in the tools section. It may also be as simple as right clicking on the track properties portion of the track view and clicking add buss from the context menu that opens.

I am not a crook's head
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Since: Mar 14, 2003


Oct 06, 2008 12:23 pm

If Cubase LE is anything like Cubase SE, they have a slightly different way of representing busses. They have a main bus that represents your main outputs (these are the main L and R outputs that you send to your monitors). But the subgroups are called "Group Tracks".

When you create a new track, instead of creating an audio or MIDI track, create a group track. Once your group track is created, you can route any other track to it by selecting your new group track name instead of the main bus on the mixer view for each track. Then you route your group track to your main bus in the mixer view.

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