User guide
Tracktion 4 Reference Manual
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group, process them all, and then send them on to the main LR.
In Tracktion, you create sub-mixes by changing the output destination of one or more tracks from an
audio output device to another track. For example, if tracks one to four in your edit contain percussive
parts, you could designate track ve to be the sub-mix master track. In this way, any effects or level
changes that are applied to track ve will cascade down to tracks one through four also.
In short then, to set up a sub-mix:
• Mentally choose a track to be the master mix track for your sub-mix.
• Select one or all of the tracks that you wish to make part of a sub-mix.
• In the properties panel set the track destination of the selected track(s) to the track that you
elected to be the master mix (Fig. 7.2.1).
You can even cascade your sub-mixes, by send the output of sub-mix master track into another sub-
mix. For example, you could have three tracks feeding into one mix track, and four into another, then
feed the two mix tracks into a third master mix track.
Setting up effects sends in Tracktion is a little more involved, and in fact there are two different ways
to do it. The standard way is to use the aux send / return lters. How to do this is detailed in Chapter
3.4, where you nd a complete walk-through of working with these lters. If you are unsure how to use
the aux send / return lters, please refer back to that part of the reference manual. In summary how-
ever, to use them you simply place a send on the tracks to which you want to apply a send effect, and
on a designated return track, you will place an effect lter, and a return lter in that order.
The send/return lters make a powerful and exible approach to adding auxiliary sends to tracks, but
if you want even more exibility, you can use rack lters. Rack lters are an extremely powerful and cre-
ative tool, and they allow you to go far beyond the normal approach of chained insert effects. They are
so powerful in fact that they have an entire chapter (Chapter Nine) dedicated to them. You can use rack
lters to create custom auxiliary sends, and to allow lters to react to events on other tracks (side chain
compression, for example).
Figure 7.2.1