AUX and BUS SET-UP

HABBER · 16th September 2007

So I got my 8 today. It's Great. I'm very happy with it. I do have a question for the more understanding folk.

Here it goes.......

I went to try the new bus/aux feature. Opened up a bus channel and inserted a reverb. Went over to the snare channel opened a bus and turned it up. It sounded like crap and I couldn't figure out why. The reverb was there but the snare also got loud and thin. I then MUTED the aux channel and found that when I turned the bus ( in the snare channel )up and down it was getting loud and thin still, but no reverb of course. As I filtered through all the channels in the mixer I found the actual bus that is linked to the aux was routed to the stereo output(1 + 2). So, what i was getting was snare + reverb + the snare again through the bus. Now when I change that bus to no-outputs the snare and verb sound great.

Is this normal procedure or a bug. I don't understand why the routing would be so. If Logic runs through a bus ,then to the aux why would it let the signal through the bus?

Can anyone explain why Logic sets this up in a fashion that whenever I open a bus I need to remember to go and turn of the outputs or it will double up on the direct signal.

Or am I just an idiot

Græmatter Audio · 16th September 2007

I can't speak to how it functions in 8 just yet, but what you've described (having to turn off the bus outputs if you're using that bus as an AUX input) has always been a necessary step in setting up auxes for parallel processing in LogicPro 7 - the power of this arrangement lies in being able to select the same bus as the input for multiple Auxes. It would be a huge oversight for them to have instituted an auto-aux creation function that automatically routes the bus to a new Aux without also disabling the busses output ... who knows?

I look forward to seeing how it works in 8, but to really take advantage of the dual channel strip display it seems like you may need to use a different send/bus for every Aux you want to route a track to ...

16th September 2007	#1
HABBER Gear maniac Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 202 Thread Starter	AUX and BUS SET-UP So I got my 8 today. It's Great. I'm very happy with it. I do have a question for the more understanding folk. Here it goes....... I went to try the new bus/aux feature. Opened up a bus channel and inserted a reverb. Went over to the snare channel opened a bus and turned it up. It sounded like crap and I couldn't figure out why. The reverb was there but the snare also got loud and thin. I then MUTED the aux channel and found that when I turned the bus ( in the snare channel )up and down it was getting loud and thin still, but no reverb of course. As I filtered through all the channels in the mixer I found the actual bus that is linked to the aux was routed to the stereo output(1 + 2). So, what i was getting was snare + reverb + the snare again through the bus. Now when I change that bus to no-outputs the snare and verb sound great. Is this normal procedure or a bug. I don't understand why the routing would be so. If Logic runs through a bus ,then to the aux why would it let the signal through the bus? Can anyone explain why Logic sets this up in a fashion that whenever I open a bus I need to remember to go and turn of the outputs or it will double up on the direct signal. Or am I just an idiot

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16th September 2007	#2
Græmatter Audio Gear nut Join Date: Jun 2007 Posts: 91	I can't speak to how it functions in 8 just yet, but what you've described (having to turn off the bus outputs if you're using that bus as an AUX input) has always been a necessary step in setting up auxes for parallel processing in LogicPro 7 - the power of this arrangement lies in being able to select the same bus as the input for multiple Auxes. It would be a huge oversight for them to have instituted an auto-aux creation function that automatically routes the bus to a new Aux without also disabling the busses output ... who knows? I look forward to seeing how it works in 8, but to really take advantage of the dual channel strip display it seems like you may need to use a different send/bus for every Aux you want to route a track to ...