Keni Posted March 9, 2021 Share Posted March 9, 2021 This could be a handy tool and way of working that calls back to analog once again. How about adding the ability to assign multiple outputs from each track? ...just thinking. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Promidi Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Isn't this what a send is? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 24 minutes ago, Promidi said: Isn't this what a send is? Similar, but not quite. Send uses a return, not a bus. That being said, I have used sends for jobs that I might have wanted a second output. In analog days I would create a mult on the track's output... No matter. This isn't something badly needed, just a thought. I would actually prefer they spent the time addressing the zoom issues I regularly complain about! ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 Sends do indeed do exactly what you want. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will. Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 18 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said: Sends do indeed do exactly what you want. Though this is 100% true, it's not a dedicated fixed routing method. There were times when I also wished multiple channel outputs was a thing in CbB to split a channel. Like the @Keni said in his reply -- it's not a big deal for it. Still would have been nice to have that option too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 The nomenclature isn't explicit but the UI wouldn't be that dissimilar since the controls required would be essentially the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted March 10, 2021 Author Share Posted March 10, 2021 58 minutes ago, Kevin Perry said: The nomenclature isn't explicit but the UI wouldn't be that dissimilar since the controls required would be essentially the same. I would imagine significantly small adjustments. Extra widgets or new widget to display choices/settings and a selection list that accommodates multiple choices? Obviously the necessary code is more tedious... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Will. Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 1 hour ago, Kevin Perry said: The nomenclature isn't explicit but the UI wouldn't be that dissimilar since the controls required would be essentially the same. Just a question: Wouldn't it lessen the work on the send engines rendering it more stable? I've seen some threads here on dropout on that region of the UI. Personally I had never had problems in that department. Hence to why is said: Not dedicated. I could be wrong. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kc23 Posted March 10, 2021 Share Posted March 10, 2021 On 3/9/2021 at 2:59 PM, Keni said: This could be a handy tool and way of working that calls back to analog once again. How about adding the ability to assign multiple outputs from each track? ...just thinking. 18 hours ago, Keni said: Similar, but not quite. Send uses a return, not a bus. That being said, I have used sends for jobs that I might have wanted a second output. In analog days I would create a mult on the track's output... No matter. This isn't something badly needed, just a thought. I would actually prefer they spent the time addressing the zoom issues I regularly complain about! ? It is necessary to understand correctly signal routing as a universal concept, and then understand how the tool at hand (in this case cakewalk) functions, to make these kind of things work as one wants. -A send is a send. It SENDs audio to where ever you want it to be received. It can be a bus, or a track (used as an aux track in cakewalk). In analog, a send does not need a dedicated "return", you can return it to a bus (if it has an input port) or a track, as you can do in cakewalk. -In a patchbay, a mult is the result of an input being duplicated in a given number of outputs. You would have to patch the output of a track to the mult input, and then the outputs of the mult to the inputs of the tracks you want it to be duplicated at. In cakewalk, if you want a track´s signal to be received by multiple other tracks (thus creating a "mult") then: set the output of the track to a patch point (the "mult input"), then in as many tracks as you want, set their inputs to said patch point (the "mult outputs"). If you want to receive that signal also on a bus, send it through a... send, having decided for it to be pre or post fader. Understanding the signal flow and the software´s functions, this should take a couple of minutes to figure out, and another couple to experiment if it will work. Hope it helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keni Posted March 11, 2021 Author Share Posted March 11, 2021 3 hours ago, kc23 said: It is necessary to understand correctly signal routing as a universal concept, and then understand how the tool at hand (in this case cakewalk) functions, to make these kind of things work as one wants. -A send is a send. It SENDs audio to where ever you want it to be received. It can be a bus, or a track (used as an aux track in cakewalk). In analog, a send does not need a dedicated "return", you can return it to a bus (if it has an input port) or a track, as you can do in cakewalk. -In a patchbay, a mult is the result of an input being duplicated in a given number of outputs. You would have to patch the output of a track to the mult input, and then the outputs of the mult to the inputs of the tracks you want it to be duplicated at. In cakewalk, if you want a track´s signal to be received by multiple other tracks (thus creating a "mult") then: set the output of the track to a patch point (the "mult input"), then in as many tracks as you want, set their inputs to said patch point (the "mult outputs"). If you want to receive that signal also on a bus, send it through a... send, having decided for it to be pre or post fader. Understanding the signal flow and the software´s functions, this should take a couple of minutes to figure out, and another couple to experiment if it will work. Hope it helps. Thanks... I am quite well versed in signal path and understand send vs track output... That said, Though I’ve been using son-cake for decades, I have not played around with patch points and forgot about them. They may function exactly as the mults of analog days. I will investigate. Thanks. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xoo Posted March 11, 2021 Share Posted March 11, 2021 11 hours ago, Will_Kaydo said: Just a question: Wouldn't it lessen the work on the send engines rendering it more stable? I've seen some threads here on dropout on that region of the UI. Personally I had never had problems in that department. Hence to why is said: Not dedicated. I could be wrong. Not that I am a Cakewalk developer, but I don't see how that would lessen any work - it's just moving it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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