Studio One - How to Use Sends (Part 1)

[@johnthelad]

Finally someone who actually teaches signal flow in Studio One that I was able to fully understand. Your teaching skills are excellent.

[@maxkonyi]

Thanks! Glad it was helpful 🙌

[@Cultifact]

Thanks for your vids - I'm switching from a different DAW after 12 years and your channel is a blessing

[@maxkonyi]

Nice! Hope you enjoy S1

[@Sharpboywolfgang]

Best explanation I have seen on KZbin. God bless you 🇳🇬

[@maxkonyi]

🙏🏼🙏🏼🙏🏼

[@EAST49]

Ahhhhhhh I needed this 😅😅😅 Ive been using studio one since 2017 and I never even thought about using one fx channel for my effects, I appreciate this, now I can redo all the tracks I mixed down and make em more simple. 😎

[@maxkonyi]

Nice! Gamechanger

[@Gang-25j]

Wow

[@cathywilson1273]

Hello Max Konyi!! WOW!! Again, your teaching technique is superb and unique!! I have watched many tutorials on sends/effects, and this one has stripped away the clutter, and clearly and concisely, made it plain and simple...to understand. Finally, I can move ahead with confidence, with my projects, while understanding exactly what I need to do to, and why I need to use sends. I can't thank you enough for this!! I want to cry, I'm so happy. LOL :-)

[@maxkonyi]

Haha, thank you Cathy! So glad to hear it. Keep going! ⚡️

[@jt6294]

Usually do not comment on videos, but your teaching is absolutely superb - clear and concise. Immediately subscribed. Kudos!!!!!

[@maxkonyi]

Wow thank you 🙏🏻 I appreciate you taking the time to comment!

[@catherineevans576]

So, so good. Sometimes concepts are so difficult to understand, but you manage to make it easy! Thanks!

[@maxkonyi]

Nice! Glad it was clear

[@thomasskean9274]

You Sir, are an amazing teacher. Thank you!

[@jameshutchins7042]

Ive said it on many of your other videos. You deserve millions of subscribers. Its impossible for someone to watch your videos and not become better at creating music. Your an excellent teacher and your style I think is what most ppl need to learn. Thank you for your time.

[@maxkonyi]

Wow, thank you James! That's wonderful. Much appreciated 🙏🏼

[@stevekaiser3745]

Max, you are a very good teacher. Thank you for taking the time to explain things so thoroughly!!

[@maxkonyi]

My pleasure Steve!

[@CoffeeDrinker71]

Hello Max...you just opened my eyes! I've never used "Sends" before in any of my mixes but after watching your video I will be completely changing my approach!!! Thank you so much for the education.

[@maxkonyi]

Hooray! 🙌

[@Lpph96]

Superb, your explaining ability is excellent, very clear and broken down for beginners. Too many tutorials expect prior knowledge of the terms and use overly complex examples etc

[@maxkonyi]

Great to hear, thank you 🙌🏼

[@Arian-abbas]

You are best one explained this point.. Thank you

[@maxkonyi]

👌👌👌

[@nwcic]

Very nice TUT. The clearest one I have seen on verb sends. The one you did with one verb on the channel, another as a send was nice. Opens up all sorts of possibilities for targeted effects. Thanks.

[@maxkonyi]

🙌🙌🙌 Happy it was useful for you

[@TroyBlackford]

This is what I'm looking for! Thanks yet again, sir! Now, do you have any videos that magically make me have the amount of time to spend on music I had 18 years ago? I'd definitely click like on that.

[@maxkonyi]

Ha! I need a video like that too...

[@jaroslavmateju4256]

You are an amazing teacher. I'm very glad I found you on youtube. Thank you very much for your work.

[@maxkonyi]

Thank you for the kind words 🙏🏼 So glad you're enjoying the videos!

[@lalzarzolianaful]

Your explanation is easy to learn for those like me who does not very influent in english ...thanks

[@maxkonyi]

Ah that's good to hear. Thanks!

[@nathanmcauley121]

Thanks for making this video. I've been using studio one artist and just recently started looking in to busses, FX channels etc. Your videos are really helpful thank you 👍🏻

[@maxkonyi]

No worries 👌 Glad it was helpful

[@keithbradley3989]

I was just looking for the send box, it's below inserts but you gotta drag the bar to reveal it. Long story short I subbed, great video.

[@maxkonyi]

Great! 🙌

[@Nava4Gamingz]

Wow.. You made My day! Understood 100%!!

[@maxkonyi]

Nice! Glad to hear it

[@djdel1122]

An Amazing Tutorial!!! Thank you!

[@sammydodgers121]

Brilliant explanation! I was using reverb as inserts for vocals and they sounded awful. Can't wait to try this. Onto part 2!

[@maxkonyi]

Hooray! 👌🏼

[@maxdaprodigy914]

I do sends for reverb and delays and sounds amazing. U can adjust the level of the effect itself without affecting the volume of the track

[@MichaelsPaintingChannel]

Greatly explained. Thank you! Will the send send the original signal or also existing inserts?

[@maxkonyi]

It includes the inserts!

[@AndyKimbel]

And if the different instruments require different reverbs? Do you ever recommend just adding a reverb on the track, especially if you just record acoustic guitar and vocals, perhaps adding a bass and another guitar along the way. I have been an avid Studio One user for about 20 years., all of the versions and last year, finally joined Sphere or Plus as they call it now. In loading the 1810C template to do a new song, there are no sends and I can not figure out how to create them. I always just add one track at a time and it has never been am issue. I really don't use the pre designed templates much. That being so, Where did the sends go within this template? Thanks! Oh, . . . Wonderful presentation!!

[@maxkonyi]

Yes, I definitely put individual reverbs on channels as inserts as well. This happens when I know the reverb will be unique to this one instrument and/or when I want easy wet/dry control over the sound with a single knob. I'm not sure about the 1810c template...sounds strange. Might need to contact support for that? I've never used it

[@ViswaSVoiceOfficial]

Thank god found my presonus master 🙏

[@e-l-t2279]

Thank you again. You have a great way of explaining things!

[@maxkonyi]

Thank you 🙏🏼

[@ryanryan6674]

Well explained, thank you!

[@maxkonyi]

🙌🙌🙌

[@jameskultra]

Both my available RAM and myself thank you, cheers.

[@maxkonyi]

🤣

[@federicgrec]

Hi Max, nice explanation, but I sitll have doubt regarding it. You use the reverb puglin which contain the MIX knob and in this case when it is 100% it is using the full signal from the SEND to the FX Channel, but if in the case that I am routing the SEND to FX that contain an EQ and don´t have the MIX Knob? Is it sending just a copy of the signal there? Regards

[@maxkonyi]

That's right, a send always sends a copy of the audio from that channel. When a reverb is 100% wet, we can no longer hear the original signal at all, we only hear the processed version. Since we are still hearing the original track as well (in addition to the FX channel), this is exactly what we want. If you put an EQ on an FX channel and send to it, now you have a duplicate of the same signal but changed by the EQ. So you have the original signal AND the EQ'd version of the original signal, which you could blend in by simply using the volume fader on the FX channel. There is no need for a mix knob. A little hard to explain over text. Hopefully that makes sense!

[@federicgrec]

@@maxkonyi I understood now. Thank you and have a nice week!

[@amanchaure5584]

Thankyou so much for this tutorial, I was always confused whether to put multiple reverbs & delays on separate channels or not. And I always ended up with muddy mixes even after EQing them severely.

[@maxkonyi]

My pleasure! Glad it was useful

[@amanchaure5584]

@@maxkonyi hey, can I send you a mix (duration is of just 1 Min 35 secs). Can you give me a mix review?

[@maxkonyi]

@@amanchaure5584 The best option would be to join my Discord and post your track in the Feedback section. Then, I and others can listen and help you. You can find a link to the Discord on my KZbin profile banner, or in the description of any recent videos 👌

[@amanchaure5584]

@@maxkonyi Thankyou so much, I will definitely join the server.

[@maxkonyi]

@@amanchaure5584 Good to see you there!

[@mikereynoldsguitar502]

subscribed thanks

[@avantgardenovelist]

turn this video series into a book and it will become a best-seller or at keast a classic.

[@maxkonyi]

Good thinking!

[@gibsondude07ify]

Dumb question, but if you want less reverb on the piano but the same amount on the drums, is there a way to separate that mix or is that send fader the master mix knob? Thank you in advance

[@maxkonyi]

Yup, the amount of reverb for each instrument is determined by how much signal you send from that channel. Each instrument can have completey different values.

[@Azjedi13]

Thank you for explaining this so i actually understand. subed

[@maxkonyi]

Glad it was helpful 🌞

[@Nicodegea22]

Your the Best man

[@prashunthapa1704]

Thank u ....very informative tutorial

[@maxkonyi]

🙏🌞🙏

[@Andreea713]

I LOVE YOU. Thank you for your help :)

[@maxkonyi]

My pleasure 🌺

[@cali875]

nice tuto!!

[@deanz9161]

Great explanation!

[@maxkonyi]

Thank you! 🙌🏻

[@sensium9757]

Great tutorial, thx but i dont see the sends on the tracks, only the inserts.

[@maxkonyi]

They are probably hidden because of a compact mixer window. Place your mouse at the bottom edge of the inserts section and until the cursor changes. Then, click and drag upward to reveal the send section!

[@sensium9757]

@@maxkonyi Thank You!!

[@colin5785]

Good Lesson 👍

[@maxkonyi]

Glad you like it! Thank you

[@jimle22]

If you just created an effects send such as room reverb, would it not automatically create and effects channel or bus?

[@maxkonyi]

I'm not exactly sure what you're asking...are you able to rephrase it?

[@adipratamaputra5444]

Thank you!

[@maxkonyi]

My pleasure!

[@creations1775]

Brother what is k20 mixing can u explained me plz

[@maxkonyi]

The K system is a way of measuring loudness and dynamic range, not a mixing system. It's not something I know much about! Sorry

[@francisb1]

so this workflow didn’t make sense to me until you said the fact about having it 100% wet. Now it kind of makes sense but it’s still a lot less straightforward then having effects as inserts. the other point that bugs me is that this appears to be ideal only for some effects like reverb and maybe delay? definitely not for eq, for instance, is it not?

[@maxkonyi]

Hi Francesco, Good question. Sends are ideal for reverb and delay, like you say. It allows you to reuse specific plugins for many tracks, rather than having them be individual. This provides better control over wet/dry balance, the ability to easily put many instruments in the same space with varying degrees of reverb, and is easier on your CPU. However, certain effects often need to be applied to specific tracks, such as compression, EQ, etc. So you're thinking is on the right track! Try using sends for reverb and delay for the next while, sending multiple tracks there instead of inserts. By trying it out, you will directly see what this method is good for and what doesn't make sense. There are many other more specific and nuanced cases of using sends that don't involve reverb and delay, but it's too much to get into here.

[@chumcool]

I still can't tell you what the difference between a BUS and a SEND are... I mean, I'm listening to you, you are explaining things perfectly. I have absolutely zero questions in regard to your explanation of what the textbooks say are the differences between BUSSES and SENDS. You're doing great, keep it up... What I am saying is this... I have watched this SENDS video several times in comparison to the BUS video and there is absolutely ZERO difference in the uses. SENDS create a "copy" of the track... OK, so what... It's just words being said for the sake of pronouncing them. At the end of the day, there is no actual copy that the SEND has made. As a test, I have created hundreds of SENDS/"COPIES" and have seen ZERO hard drive consumption... 1 TB of space and after creating over a hundred SENDS, I still have 1 TB exactly. Not even ONE KB been used. For example, I could say this... Everything here that I am typing on my keyboard, every letter, before it leaves my computer and is posted into this comment section, will first go up a unicorn's ass and then out of its mouth before reaching the readers eyes. All I did there was say things, created an imaginary side journey that my text have gone through just to give it a little extra unnecessary pizzazz for the readers to relate to. I think a BUS and a SEND were created by two different factions that had the same idea, just given two different names. At some point, they were just put in the same box.

[@maxkonyi]

lol let me clarify: When I say a "copy", I don't mean a 'physical' copy of data on your hard drive, I mean a duplicate stream of the same data going to another location in the DAW. The audio data now runs into two channels - the original, and the send. Sends were originally used only for effects, with the purpose of mixing them back in with the original signal. Busses were originally used for combining multiple audio channels together into one channel which can be controlled as a unit. With modern DAWs, the lines are blurred and you can use a bus like a send if you want, and vice versa. The terminology can probably be replaced at some point and a single track type can be used for both, which some DAWs do.

[@kraken8143]

ok well how the heck do you add the send bit the part that says sends? because it doesnt show up on mine at all even though i added 1

[@maxkonyi]

You may need to resize that part of the channel by clicking and dragging vertically on the boundary of a section. Also check in the view options on the left side of the mixer that you are actually displaying sends. I'm not in the studio at this moment so I can't check on the validity of that for sure...

[@kraken8143]

@@maxkonyi thanks so much man! i was just being blind lol

[@musictech5789]

so there is no way to create bus tracks without first having an audio track?

[@maxkonyi]

Yes, you can just right-click anywhere in the mixer and select "add bus channel"

[@officialWWM]

How come I can't see the sends in my mixer window?

[@maxkonyi]

Hey, sorry to be slow here. You probably just need to make the mixer window bigger. If you still can't see, you can put your mouse on the line below "inserts" and drag up to reveal the sends. Let me know how it goes

[@officialWWM]

Max Konyi hi, thank you, I found it. You have to turn the view on in the settings up in the top left corner of the mixer window :)

[@maxkonyi]

@@officialWWM Great! Thank you

[@officialWWM]

@@maxkonyi beats me why you'd want to turn that off but its there anyway, lol.

[@maxkonyi]

@@officialWWM 😂

[@isaiahstagg622]

There is no option for sends on mine i need help

[@maxkonyi]

You may not have them displayed. Two things: 1). In the mix window, click the wrench icon on the left side. Make sure sends have a checkbox next to them. 2). Put your mouse cursor on the line underneath the inserts but above the input/output selection. Click and drag up to reveal the sends.

[@thehighdeath5562]

But doesn’t this mean you’d have to be happy with the same amount and type of reverb on all of your affected tracks?

[@maxkonyi]

Amount no, type yes. You can vary the amount on a per track basis by choosing how much signal you send. If you want different types of reverbs (which I often do), you have two options: 1). Create another FX channel with a different verb and send things to it as well. You can repeat this over and over. 2). If you want a special reverb for just one track, you can put it directly on the channel as an insert and use the Mix knob.

[@akifguler3546]

I'm just say Woawww

[@maxkonyi]

🙌🙌🙌

[@kevinmiracle8233]

what i DON'T like about putting 2 separate instruments on one FX channel is that fact that you might be over saturating something with to much reverb when you don't need both instruments that wet. instead create a separate send for each instrument.

[@maxkonyi]

Do you mean sending a bus to a reverb instead of sending the separate tracks?

[@kevinmiracle8233]

@@maxkonyi i'm referring to how you sent two instruments to one FX channel. i would send vocals to one FX channel and then drums or what have you to a separate bus so i can control the amount of reverb on each instead of one blanket FX channel with reverb.

[@maxkonyi]

@@kevinmiracle8233 You can control the amount of reverb on each instrument through the send amount on the source channel. The only reason for sending things to the same FX channel is that you want the same reverb/delay/whatever on both, which could be for a variety of reasons. On the source channel, you can change how much signal you are sending to any given FX channel which changes how much of that effect you hear for the specific instrument. So you can send every track to the same FX channel, all with differing amounts and different panning (also available on the send). The amount of reverb FX channels you have will be a function of how many different reverb types you need in your song. No need to create the same reverb multiple times.

[@kevinmiracle8233]

@@maxkonyi i see.. you're video wasn't specific but i get it.. makes sense now. thanks for the clarification. probably cuts down on CPU resources doing it that way as well.

[@maxkonyi]

@@kevinmiracle8233 Yes! Exactly. Glad it makes sense now.

[@silaswintersguitar]

I feel like such an idiot after watching this and thinking sends was some super complicated thing lol

[@maxkonyi]

Well at least you've got it now!