ALL About RETURN Tracks & SENDS In Ableton Live - Tips For Routing, Mixing & Live Performance!

ALL About RETURN Tracks & SENDS In Ableton Live - Tips For Routing, Mixing & Live Performance! will talk to you through all you need to know about return tracks and send: functions, techniques, routing options, and how to use them creatively in your workflow.
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[@jimroberts3504]

I’ve really been struggling to understand send and returns. I get it now, your two rooms analogy makes perfect sense to me, thank you!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

I am so glad that it helped 😁

[@benetmerklin]

Me too 😇

[@treyhudson73]

Think of Sends like Wet/Dry knob and your return track as your VST. You can send all your tracks through the VST without loading up multiple instances. Saves you CPU like a Mofo The typical practice would be to turn the actual Wet/Dry on the Return track to 100% wet and adjust using your sends.

[@Karmina001]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff indeed! The two rooms analogy helped me visualizing the send and returns. Thank you!

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Omg you are so helpful I love your tutorial so much ❤❤❤❤

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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[@JRyMeRr]

So when you parallel the two rooms and create equal leveling so that the wet and dry signal are flowing equally enough to mimic a sense of one sound does that mean that me and you just built our first house 😮😮😮😮😮😂😂😂😂😊❤

[@SoniaAnastasiaaa]

What is a clip track?? 8:49

[@MrRyancangri]

Awesome video. I use Ableton to run the whole band. I have a bass player, drummer, keyboard player, and vocalist. Me being the keyboard player/Sound guy, I mix everything off the main headphone out. I basically hear what the audience hears. I Three separate mixes for the drummer, vocalist, and bass player, and everything sounds beautiful!!!

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[@Strages_Powers]

Great Video Lina thanks :), your camera frame is a little tilted if you look at your desk at the bottom of your screen, your tripod should have a level on it to keep it centred.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Hah yes noticed 😂 i need new tripod

[@XeroHertz]

Thanks a million! You made it as clear as it should ever be, the Multiple Room example should be in Ableton Live's user manual..

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Hah I am so glad you liked it :) I will let them know .. 😂

[@fabioalferii]

Hi LNA, thank you for your video! I have a question. I have two separated tracks with vocal choir...These tracks are set "send only" and I sent them to a return track. Now I'm trying to change the panning of the return track, but nothing happen, the tracks are always in the center. Am I missing something or this is not the way to proceed? Thank you!

[@kmjansen]

I've been trying to learn routing for about a year, and this video just drove it home for me. Thank you so much for this in-depth, incredibly well-done tutorial!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful! 😍

[@davyfbkk]

Great job, but please remove that annoying slap sound effect when you hit functions

[@omthon5574]

Clearly explained simple,clear to understand, thx u so so much.

[@frankvazquez5974]

At the end, I think you wanted to say "The sound is incognito". Nice work. Your English is good and clear.

[@sunstar1630]

Your explaination has been very helpful. Particularly liked the Room to Room to Room for the Wet and Dry Sound.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful!

[@MikkiYoMikki]

Hi LNA! I'm starting in Ableton as a live keyboard player here in Spain but am finding it difficult to get my head around it... I'm very willing to learn because it seems extremely flexible. I've got the gist of chain selector to select different instruments on a same track but i can't seem to find a way to send different A/B sends chained to each sound on a track. The idea is to have just one ambient verb on A/B return so i can send different amounts depending on the instrument on each track. Is there a way to do this? Thank you in advance

[@inkwarp]

just one tiny criticism, the hand-claps are a little distracting..

[@raycollins3229]

BTW Liina, Probably not a good idea to hang your Uke and Banjo above the radiator - Just saying! Absolutely love your presentations and clear explanations

[@wandajames143]

If I need to turn down my mix do I also turn down the sends and returns? I have a mix without drums going in parallel compression and don’t really understand how to turn it down, or if I need to. What effect etc.. should be post and which ones pre? It’s seems parallel compressions is pre, but much confusion. I tried to connect on your web page but it doesn’t work. Thanks 🙏

[@skintrade01]

Im going thru all of your tutorial videos as I am getting back into Live - thanks for all of your hard work...!!! 👍

[@chriswuzhere91]

also, might I suggest you don't interrupt the video to ask for subscribers? you should try it at the beginning of the video or better yet, the end of the video. I already have a hard time focusing on a video with many little distractions (you should also edit out your mistakes and get straight to the point)

[@hollanderic]

hai, if i use the audio effects in your way at the right side (where it says reverb etc) what is the use of using an audio effect directly down under at the instrument (so i draw the effect with my mouse right near the instrument in the simpler (i think you call it that?).

[@brentcross7650]

So much fun to learn with your videos! So curious about your accent? Northern European?

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How do I unlock a patcher that has been locked by a feed back loop? I have lost 10 days of work because of one bad connection? WTF is up with that. I can't even delete patch-cords. Any ideas guys? Everyone be careful out there, this is the second time this happened to me. MAX needs a sequential loading option to recover this kinds of shit.

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[@gabrielvelea5785]

cool tutorial. the sound-slaps that mark up shortcuts in your video are bloody annoying though

[@sunnykataria23]

Hi can you help me with send return routing on my external mixer? We can discuss commercials .

[@Mlunaamusic]

The Analogy was perfect, can't wait for more like that in your future videos ;-)

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i FINALLY UNDERSTAND

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Hahaha, this yeyeye was used by Paul Kalkbrenner in one of his songs.

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year but5 oONLY 12 ?? it's not enought...

[@EveryDayLifeChannel9777]

MPC 2.14 has sends and Returns too

[@divepymander6244]

You make dank ableton tracks and are a good teacher.

[@thedecimalspace2977]

Your video is the best of 4 I've watched.

[@Marc-nt3wt]

I liked the door analogy. It DID make sense :P

[@jamescarlsmith710]

You're a brilliant teacher. Thank you so much, I'll be binging a lot of your videos, 🐙

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Happy to hear you like them! ☺️

[@deanhankio6304]

impossible to watch tutorial. sorry

[@JeetMusic0088]

new subscriber for you. love the way you have explained about return track. thank you

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks! Hope you’ll like the channel!

[@Allan-et5ig]

LNA Does Audio Stuff - Loved it. When you say "yeah, yeah, yeah." Were you on one of the best (and ONLY worthwhile) sample collections, called Gloss? You sound identical.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

No I wasn’t but thanks! ☺️🙌

[@raycollins3229]

Brilliant! I've looked at quite a few vids regarding sends and returns - urgh!!!! Your video nailed it for me, well explained and great analogy. Thank you

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad you enjoyed it!

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2023 still helping ❤

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Thank you for sharing 🙏

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[@0711RC]

AWESOME explanation! Thank you very much!!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it was helpful!

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Awesome, thank you!

[@mario__4366]

Your content is too good and I thank you for that, but it would be great if you dedicated the full video to actually teach us about the topic, this video could have been at least 5 min shorter. Anyway, thanks for what yo do, we appreciate it a lot!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad you liked it!

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Your good teacher ♥️

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Thanks 😄

[@stevenchristianupton]

This was so helpful! Thank you 🙏

[@no87musicpublishing4]

Them "yeahs" had some soul lol

[@S_e_a_n]

Excellent explanation! I really appreciate your post. Cheers!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Awesome thanks!

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[@jenniferzuiff8517]

You're adorable. This made me understand sends and returns by the way so easily. Love the door and room example. Thank you!

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Yay awesome to hear!

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I really got irritated with that wack sound when there's something is there are caps. Like you said Aux Track and that wack sound comes. It's irrtating. Learning alot from your channel 😇

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Yes I have changed the sound later, it was too loud in this one. Ups. Glad you are learning!

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Thanks!!

[@jexmartinez9343]

Thank you. This video helped me a lot.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad it helped!

[@vinodjames1079]

Awesome.. cool way of explaination. Thankyou

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad you liked it!

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Thanks a lot!

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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very interesting vid but the noises (clicks and swoosh) that you add each time you add some text or an illustration are really annoying.

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Yeah stopped doing that in new vids

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[@tanmaymandal.2108]

My Clips segment bpm is greyed out even when my wraped setting is turned on, I cannot change the segment bpm any idea what could be the case

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Hey. Sounds weird. Are you on beats warp mode? Can you roll it up/down?

[@tanmaymandal.2108]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff i'm on texture warp mode, but it does'nt work on any warp mode and no i cannot roll it up/down :- (

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[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Happy you liked it!

[@athinagorask]

Hello! Thanks for the video! I have one question: You are about to record some vocals and you have some vocal tracks (lead vocals and vocal layers) that require the same default plugins to get started. For example, you might have a standardized plugin chain like EQ, DeEsser, Compressor, Saturator, Reverb and Delay with default settings for every vocal track you produce. To save CPU, instead of inserting this plugin chain in each vocal track, people usually suggest using a Return track and inserting the plugin chain there. Then, it's advised to increase the Send level of the vocal tracks to let the audio pass through the Return track and then to the Master. However, unless the output of the vocal tracks changes from Master to Send Only, you will have double audio going through the master (the audio from the vocal tracks and the return track). You could also group the vocals and send them to the return track, which leads to the same issue but with less flexibility in the individual tracks. My question is what is the best practice in the above example, considering the need for further effects per track down the road, as well as gain staging and mixing overall? Thank you!

[@jaylackovic8341]

I guess I'm confused... Although I understand your analogy about the two rooms, I'm not sure why you would need the sends. Or I guess what I mean to say is why do I have to tell the first room to be quiet and then have to go to the sense in order to hear it? Is it to get rid of the original dry signal? When I record vocals for hip hop, I usually have about four or five audio tracks grouped. And then in that group channel or bus, I put all the effects that I need to get the vocals to sound good. I also have return tracks set up usually with all the different types of ping pong delay so that I can send certain words or sentences to the ping pong return to get added effects. So I don't know if I'm confusing you, but if I'm able to group tracks and put effects on the group channel or bus and then send certain things to the returns, I guess I don't understand why their needs to be a send. To your defense, I am watching this video at 2:00 in the morning. Perhaps if I get some sleep and watch it again tomorrow I'll understand it better. You can choose to answer my questions if you can understand it. But I won't fault you if you don't reply. By the way though I have subscribed to your channel because I came across one of your videos explaining how to use Max for live. You made it more understandable, but Max for live still blows my mind. It seems like a lot of work and things that I'm not used to. But the point being that you were very descriptive and it felt comfortable listening to you and your explanations. On a side note, I would like to see you do a video about the Link feature and Ableton and how it works and what it actually does. Also if you have any information if you are able to link two different computers using Ableton over distance. Meaning not on the same network whereas you would have to be close to each other. I haven't seen any information regarding how to do this in real time. And for that reason it doesn't make sense to have a link feature unless the buddy I'm collaborating with is in the same room or neighbor of mine which seems kind of dumb. Anyways keep up the good work. I don't subscribe to a lot of things...

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Sends and returns are for parallel processing, which has many functions, also they are good in mixing for using one effect for multiple channels same time and they can also be used in live performance/recording sessions to create cue mixes. Hope you got some sleep in the end! :D

[@jaylackovic8341]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff I understand that, but why couldn't i just use returns or even group tracks with the group bus containing the effects.? I don't understand why a separate entity needs to be involved.

[@ezequielmartinez2042]

@@jaylackovic8341 I think with sends you could leave the FX 100% and regulate from the "knob"... with group you should enter the group and regulate the fx from the plugin itself...

[@j-jamferguson7317]

Hi there. I just need to know why I would use Sends and Returns when making a house/edm track?. 🙏

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Faster workflow and saves CPU :)

[@j-jamferguson7317]

@@LNADoesAudioStuff Does it make a mix sound any cleaner?

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Thank you very much dear LNA! Thank you one more time! Thank you, again!!!!)))

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It's so useful

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

Glad you think so!

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Im very new to Ableton, thank you for your video's Lina - I get so much from them!! Much Love from Sydney Australia!!

[@AlexandreSoma]

THANKS A LOT. The end was amazing! How to use them in a practical way.

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You lost me between the 2 rooms and the dog 🤔 7:03 ?

[@LNADoesAudioStuff]

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Greetings from November 2022! 👋

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