Inserts vs Sends (Cakewalk)

[@megorra]

The BEST Cakewalk tutorials on KZbin - No Contest :) Thanks once again Mike for great explanations.

[@Jay-eg9mv]

Adk studios : hold my beer

[@justusspillner953]

I recognize I’m late to this party, but I wanted to compliment you on providing the best pre/post send explanation I’ve seen. Thanks for your effort.

[@thespecialone5383]

This will be the simplest explaination I will ever get about the buses.

[@willmark96]

He literally is the best LOL I know how to master and edit because this guy my music sounds sooo good now

[@mykliv4546]

Thank you, sincerely! I watch a lot of KZbin instructions. For my job, and for my hobbies. Yours are one of the finest, most informative and easiest to follow, that I have seen. Thank you for making this easy to learn. You have a gift.

[@AlfredKang-tr1bd]

Thank you! Mike. I am from China.My English isn't very good but I can still understand your tutorial easyly.Thank you so much for your Cakewalk tutorial!

[@scottlarock7924]

Thank you. This is music editing tutorial number 947 that I should have watched a month ago.

[@scottseabock5281]

the post/pre tip just lit a light in the dark for me. thanx Mike

[@johnhowarthmusic8706]

I'm a Cubase user and it's taken me years to fully, and simply, understand what you've explained perfectly. All too often, other Tutors ASSUME.... Thank you for NOT doing that. Excellent vid!

[@thebarf9235]

So true. Mike explains the concepts and the practices thoroughly. Another good one is Sara Carter. Her KZbin channel is called Simply Mixing.

[@zylyp]

Thank you, Mike. Another great video, you are the best CW information source on KZbin.

[@CreativeSauce]

Thank you :)

[@paulcooper5904]

Fantastically clear explanation as usual and loved the graphics. The best on the internet!

[@positivemutations9754]

Thank you, Mike! I've watched all 32 videos in this series! I haven't recorded much lately and I've had Cakewalk since the 90's...I learned so much and you made it much easier and more fun to use and I'm excited to start recording again!

[@stephendemont1965]

Another great CW tutorial, Mike. I enjoy the way you lay it all out--what, why, and how, pretty much in that order. Nice and concise. Thanks again.

[@ivonicolaes1]

And yet again I am awestruck!! Learning new things on a daily basis! Thank you Mike!!!

[@DDIII3]

Super easy to follow. Love the notion of multiple buses from one source. I see a lot of playing around ahead. Thanks Mike.

[@therealjackfisher]

Very brilliant way to control clean tone ballance when playing on dirty amp sim. Sounds even more cool when blening 2 amps that way.

[@ericmartin6727]

Crystal clear, thanks Mike!

[@dilillo.nicola]

Hi Mike. Thank you for another brilliant Cakewalk by Bandlab Tutorial. You always manage to reproduce everything very clearly and understandably in a nutshell.

[@mitchellpeters2439]

Thank you for saving me! and I hope your well!

[@jameskellam2980]

Wow. Just wow. Wish I would've found this sooner.

[@Tony-Stockport]

Thank you Mike. You've cleared a fog yet again!

[@bassjane1732]

Very useful. Thank you so much. Now I realize some of my Sound-Problems can be solved with sends.

[@ntxoovvwjmusicstudio1942]

Thank you very much! The best hard working tutorial! Very helpful

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Great! You did just clear up things which I've never totally understood about sends in general. Thanks a lot!

[@vinodino7170]

Thanks for bringing light into the darkness :)

[@579Glenn]

Excellent instructions

[@basilmusicproduction]

It all makes sense now! Thanks!

[@jonathansherman2039]

Thank you, sir. I was struggling with sends, aux tracks, busses and what not. And This video helped me to understand the concepts of usage.

[@abc456f]

Could you explain the difference between bus and aux tracks? Thx.

[@markbrown8534]

Another great tutorial. Thank you Sir👍

[@bobbyswamp]

Awesome info! Thank you!!!

[@CreativeSauce]

My pleasure:)

[@mdoroudi986]

Hello Mike . great tutorial Thank you..........

[@joegrint6280]

Brilliant explanation , Mike. Love the cosmic arrows - along with the multi colour fans on your PC they've put me in a Zen like state. Just as well it is time to go to sleep! :-)

[@CreativeSauce]

Lol - it took a good 45 minutes to make them arrows!!!

[@joegrint6280]

@@CreativeSauce I can imagine - worked really well in helping to understand the signal flow so 45 minutes well spent!

[@ПедроПакас]

Thank you, Mike!

[@davmar9923]

Nice clear explanation of inserts and sends. I have one question. You said that using a send was a good way of controlling a blend between the original signal and and altered signal on a buss with FX. How would that be different than just using an insert FX and simply controlling the dry/wet balance of the FX?

[@jeremiasmobili2212]

Amazing video as always

[@STOLGUITARS]

thanks so much Mike great video !

[@davidlincolnbrooks]

Hey Mike: Two things in Cakewalk I've NEVER understood are a). the difference between Insert Effects and Process Effects. I can't work out when or why you'd use one over the other. and b). how to work Take Lanes... When, after you've recorded several takes in the Comping Mode, you've got a stack of several takes on your MIDI VSTi instrument. I can never make them behave as I imagine they should. Half the time I'll have one bit I like on one take, but then another usable bit on another take. I don't know how to splice or divvy them up or whatever to get a final track composed of the best bits. Have you already done videos on these subjects? If not, that would be an enormous help to me. All the best.

[@PM-yz8fx]

what a neat tutorial!

[@guilhermecorrea5439]

Very informative, thanks!

[@bevo65]

Excellent, as always. Great teacher!

[@pravo.]

GREAT MIKE I LOVE SONAR CAKEWALK SO MUCH

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Could you please make alike explanation on the AUX in Cakewalk? I just notice the fader on AUXs works a bit differently, as if it goes before FX.

[@themadhatter8791]

The was most helpful and detailed

[@leonerasmus3996]

Well presented tutorial

This is great! thank you

[@RomanPawleta]

WOW! That was really helpfull! :) THX

[@brinun01]

Excellent! 👍

[@Gusrikh1]

Very helpful.. thank you.

[@NoHealerJustPain]

Just my thoughts through. :) If I need to split sound to wet and dry but plug-in hasn't such option, I just can create 2 sends (dry and wet) with post fader turned off, turn main volume track all the way down; and then adjust 2 sends for example as 70/30%, then if needed, I can change proportion to 100/0% and so on. And the main reason for that, I guess, it makes easier to compensate the volume of both dry and wet.

[@NoHealerJustPain]

At the second thought, I remembered that Cakewalk also has the effect chain feature but I don't know if it allow to split signal and insert parallel FX though. Don't you know?

[@jimfogle184]

Mike, Great video with very understandable explanations. Thank you for continuing to support Cakewalk users. I noticed each send you demonstrated had a different Send Level setting and each buss has a different input gain setting. Any reason? Will you cover the Insert Send Assistant in a later video? (Last selection when you click on the Send + sign)

[@CreativeSauce]

Hi Jim, I hope you are well. Me and Cakewalk are not parting ways any time soon! It's been in my life longer than some of my wives :p I'm really starting to feel I should di a Cakewalk tips series, to cover things like the Send Assistant, which are useful, but perhaps don't need a whole episode to them selves.

[@joegrint6280]

@@CreativeSauce Great idea Mike!

[@Ivan4n09]

Nice video! I'd love to see a tutorial on how to use FX chains in Cakewalk. Apparently, it's a feature that was added recently, it's not the same FX chains that you insert into busses, but it's listed it the plugins window.

[@Promidi]

One thing to note is that on the effect that is on the destination send bus, you might want to make sure that plugin is set to 100% wet.

[@OfficialSavo]

And 0% dry

[@ParthMusic]

Big Fan sir.

[@fsmgallagher]

Hi Mike. Thanks for the great explanation. Some questions, for the scenario of reverb you presented: 1 - if I want only reverb signal, not the clean one, what's the best way? Uncheck POST a decrease all output level in guitar track? 2 - What if I want first guitar with reverb with pan to the left, and second one to the right, using same reverb bus? Because pan is affected by the pan I use in reverb bus... How to change pan for each guitar track, using same bus?

[@michaelkatgerman168]

Clear video Nice work :)

[@ParthMusic]

Hi Mike, please plan a playlist on scratch to end song making through Studio 1 also. Thank you

[@CreativeSauce]

This is in my plans - thank you!

[@ТимурГиев]

Thank you for the great video!)😎👏☺️👍🤝😋 Do I understand correctly that in the case of a send, the MIX control in the plugin should be at 100%? Or is it not necessary? It's just that if it's not 100%, the sound level as a whole rises, like an instrument or voice is "duplicated"😂😅🤔

[@dboytheoriginal2626]

do you leave your vocals in stereo on the channel strip?

[@tiptoes3]

As a beginner I’m so grateful for your content! I can route to a bus from channel outputs too to avoid inserting the same effects on multiple channels. So when would I do that vs using a send?

[@EvgenyIbragimov]

Thak you Mike!!! ) GREAT!!!

[@gregcampbell9616]

Hi Mike Hope your doing well. Another Great Vid Well done Have you thought about the AUX Tracks and maybe a quick tip of routing and setup. I'll make it quick My Example:- DRY Lead Vox and Backing Vox NO FX Routed to AUX TRACK, Routed to VOX BUS, Vox Bus Routed to Master. Sends- Routed to FX Bus (Reverb, Delay ect..) Big Q- FX BUS Routed to VOX Bus OR is it routed to Master??????? I Prefer to use Aux tracks now so my BUS Count doesn't get to High and makes it easier and cleaner for mixing Thoughts?? Great Vids from a Fellow Cakewalk user :)

[@AgungDimasIrawan]

please make tutorial for route summing mixing with NCAR plugins from Analog Obsession...thankyou

[@derek_underwood]

How does this differ from outputting a track to a bus? And when would you use said scenario?

[@AlexD12345]

Awsome!!!

[@ThePainkiller9995]

hey so ive been wa

[@papawiz8540]

amp bus and delay bus from the guitar channel track sends, but at the bottom of the guitar track channel do you ever send that to a bus instead of the master output?

[@Thomas_Speck]

Thank you! Very good Instruction! Allow me to ask: What kind of boomarm do you use for the Shure in this video? Looks good and stable - I'm looking for a better one for myself, my Rode PSA1 broke down.

[@ryanmosley1941]

Seconding the request for info on that boom arm!

[@Thomas_Speck]

@@ryanmosley1941 Thanks - if I had to guess, its Gator Framework - not sure bout that, but looks pretty similar.

[@CreativeSauce]

Hey guys, it's actually an Alctron MA614. But very similar to the Gator one I think

[@Thomas_Speck]

@@CreativeSauce Thanks! Unfortunately not so readily available and I don't like ordering from Aliexpress. Gator Framework would be nice, but has to be Imported to Austria - wich makes it way to expencieve. I will stick to Warm Audio WA-MBA - Thanks for all your good Advices!

[@davasei]

Hi Mike, nice video like always! Is there a way to have a send before the ProChannel? I wanted to do that in a particular song, having the dry signals of a few channels go to a reverb bus, and then keeping each channel with different effects. I couldn't find the way and in the end had to basically duplicate the tracks, which I didn't want to do just to have fewer tracks.

[@JeanDoumpier1]

Hello and well done to your work, it helps a lot. I have to ask you how can i exclude one specific track from FX which is applied to all the tracks of the same bus. I tried choosing ''By pass FX Rack'' but it doesn't do anything. It's connected with bus ONLY with output, i didn't use ''sends'' from this track at all, but despite that - when i apply FX to BUS, this track takes the effect too. Maybe you could help me, if you have been through that. Thanks in advance.

[@papawiz8540]

Blessings Mike, I noticed on the channel, you still have it going to the master, do you ever set the output on the channel to send to a Buss instead on the master?

[@mike-boyce]

Hi Mike Love your tutrorials. Can you help please I'v used the TTS-1 pl;ug in on several projects worked fine. Went to use it in a new project & I got an error message "Failed to install soft Synth. The synth may not be properly installed". When I go back to previous projects where i've used TTS-1 I now get the same error message.. How can I repair/re-install TTS-1? Thanks

[@LuisSantos-nf9rs]

You gave the example of sending the sound of the guitar channel to the bus and then apply the amp sim on the bus. Do you think this is the best way to record electric guitars through amp sims? Do they sound fatter because they mantain the original input sound? I'm asking this because I'm having troubles with BIASFX2 as it sounds awesome on standalone but very thin and metallic on the VST. It bettered when I plugged a DI box in between, but it still doesn't sound the same as the standalone.

[@synopticdesigns7868]

Mike, I have a Cakewalk question not related to this video. Is it possible, and if so how, to render an individual selected clip or track to audio? I watch Guy Michelmore's channel and when using Cubase he can quickly render suchlike to audio. I can't find anyway to do this in Cakewalk. My workaround is to Solo a track and then use the File Menu to Export Audio. That then creates an audio file of just the Soloed track. Is there a better faster way? I've been working on a piece with more than twenty tracks of instruments, including a lot of Kontakt instruments. This runs up against my RAM capacity. Rendering such a track to audio and then creating a new audio track with the recording and deleting the original instrument track solves that issue since audio plays from the hard drive. Also, FYI, at one point Cakewalk choked on opening the project. The PC cursor froze and it had to be hardware commanded to reboot. I found an online reference to such an issue and learned that, in such a situation, Once Cakewalk has opened, holding the Shift key while selecting the Project to be loaded pops up a dialog that allows skipping one or all plugins. Skipping the plugins then allowed the project to open. The tracks with their MIDI data still appear, they just don't have a plugin. Creating a new Instrument track with the desired plugin and then moving the MIDI data from the track missing the plugin then gets the situation back to square one. I've now learned to keep the number of Instrument tracks to a minimum by replacing them with an audio track as soon as practical.

[@CreativeSauce]

Heya, thanks for watching. It sounds like you should freeze the track (it's the little snow like icon on the track). Freezing a virtual instrument converts it to audio ( with any fx applied), and removes the virtual instrument from memory. The great thing about it is, you can unfreeze at any time to do edits.

[@sevenmainsinsofficial2293]

👍

[@cianbrady1557]

Does the signal still go down to the in/out then. So if I route the original track to the master and also the bus. Does that route 2 signals? Or should I also put the out on the main track to the bus aswell as the send. If that makes sense😂

[@CreativeSauce]

Good question. Assuming that both the original channel, and the bus both have thier outputs set to the master, then yes, both the original and the bus goes to the master (routes 2 signals to the master).

[@cianbrady1557]

@@CreativeSauce would I be able to hear this in the export? Should I send the original track to somewhere else

[@CreativeSauce]

Yes you would hear it in the export. To be honest, it depends what result you want. If you only want to hear the bus, then turn the post button off, and lower the fader for the original track all the way down (don't use mute, it will mute the signal to the send).

[@cianbrady1557]

@@CreativeSauce ahh ok. Thanks a million for all the great videos they help so much!

[@KyleYoung143]

Whats the guitar vst you're using?

[@TazzSmk]

aand it's the best Reaper theme - called Echolot :))

[@abrahamisaac7317]

Festival i watts to thank KZbin and m'y question i have à problem to much noise on cakewalk and i tray to fixe by adjesting befer zone latency but stil it is noise how i solve it

[@abrahamisaac7317]

Ferst i want to thank you

[@jstnxprsn]

I haven't had time to watch this yet but it got me thinking' " I wonder if he's ever done a vid on patch bays?"

[@ojasdeshpande7296]

Hi, I am unable to install cakewalk thro the bandlab app. Do you know any other way of installing it(for Windows).

[@CreativeSauce]

Hi, currently that's the only method I know :(

[@music_creator_capable]

Hey!

[@CreativeSauce]

Hey MC :)

[@kennedylee2248]

it's very very hard to learn

[@themadhatter8791]

Audacity is so much easier and simplified to use lol