Studio One Routing (Inserts, Busses, FX Channels, VCAs)

[@MrWebbstudios]

100% Excellent Demostrations. I really like how consistent you speak and explain, very fluid, plus excellent video editing. I'm very impressed. Thank you sir. You are truly a wonderful presenter with expert knowledge on audio mixing.

[@studioonerevealed]

Thank you so much Darrell, I hoo to see you here often!

[@michael3864]

This is the most clear and concise tutorial on this topic I have seen yet. Thank you!

[@JimsMusicLegacy]

This was a much needed video that S.O. doesn't explain well, if at all. I really appreciate it and you style of teaching.

[@xXPhunKXx]

By far the best studio one video on YT

[@martyfouts771]

Originally, you could only use Sends to output to an FX channel, not a bus and there were a few other differences, like fader flip. As of Studio One 6.5, I think there are only two differences between FX Channels and busses: 1) as you mentioned, you can use MIX FX inserts on busses but not on FX Channels. 2) FX Channels default to "Solo Safe", a mode I rarely see anyone talk about. Notice that when you create an FX Channel, the solo button is Green (at least by default)? That means that if any other channel is soloed, the FX Channel will also be soloed whether it was selected or not. You can enable Solo Safe for any channel, but it's on by default for FX Channels.

[@op-x8948]

As always, great job Mike!

[@mannequinskywalker]

I always learn so much from your vids! Comprehensive, clear, detailed = excellent!! Thank you! 👍🙌

[@yousemusic1025]

Brilliant. Everything I need to know, clearly and pleasantly explained, in 20 minutes. Win! Thank you.

[@jasonwolfkill2527]

Great walk-through of signal routing in Studio One - thanks!

[@fransteeno]

Hi Mike. Your presentations of Studio One are excellent. This particular subject really captured my attention. I feel I have made many strides with mi ing and gain staging, but feel my comprehension of console is still a bit armature. This episode was dynamic. I am going to start using sends based on this discussion. Thank you. Your instructions have been a source of inspiration for several years now. Keep up the great work. Fran the Piano Man STEENO STUDIOS

[@boogybass]

A good explanation of how the process of busses, VCAs and the effects channel work; can't say I use the effects channel much either. It almost seems redundant when you can use a bus channel instead; correct me if I'm wrong. I sometimes look at the length of your videos and ask if I have the time for it, but as soon as I get in and I can see the thoroughness, it's clear it will be time well spent! Just like this one!

[@blulacez4421]

Honestly, I prefer not to complicate things especially when mixing for long hours. So I'll use Efx for effects,and busses for groups. That ensures a more tidy platform for me visually and mentally. Again, to each their own.

[@Kofiaduasante]

Thank You Sir. A very detailed explanation and demonstration. My journey with studio one is being made easier with this channel ❤❤

[@williamoliveira1409]

Wow your channel is such an amazing university for us S1 users. Everything here is outstanding, mate.

[@oliviermasse8648]

Great demonstration of routing capabilities in SO. Nice job.👍✌️

[@rdm7770]

Thank you so much I've been scratching my head trying to figure out how to send two panned mono channels into a stereo bus properly to experiment with side channel eq on my guitars and this really set me straight \m/

[@BenjaminGib]

Superb, Mike, thank you!

[@meimarceau]

10/10 acting and examples

[@jerrytroyanna5090]

Outstanding tutorial! Great detail.

[@nerdyrob]

This was a great video, thanks for taking the time to share!

[@toddwmac]

Great vid as always Mike. You are like a privateer racer putting pressure on a factory team! Keep it up...we all benefit.

[@jonabrundage]

thanks for all your videos! I actually have created a "tips" database for myself and these help documenting what to do- and why

[@fransteeno]

Nice job. Even though I have been through this countless times, I still gain traction during the discussion. It is a wonderful science of sound, and signal manipulation. I might also add that I wish we had these tools to use with such ease in the 70s, and 80s.

[@peterelfman]

As far as I know, FX Buses were given the Send capacity in version 6. Great video!

[@michael3864]

A Packed folder also gives you VCA functionality and allows routing for member tracks PLUS allows for cleaner main interface.

[@thekingsmatter5845]

YES!!! I needed this tutorial. Very instructive. Thanks!

[@teddybeargram3]

Lmao. U r the phil collins of the tutorials. That is awesome

[@logandudek]

Great video, very useful and handy, thanks

[@markcook2980]

Excellent work...my only regret is that I hadn't seen this before today! 😂

[@lulikastrati5911]

I was watching one of Gregors videos and he demostrated how to click FX channel then fader flip and it will only show the channels currently routing through that FX channel and hide all others. Useful in a big mix.

[@revup67]

Thanks for your efforts. Broken down with good articulation and finesse. Cheers.

[@jsehmbimusic9739]

So for effects imo… you can choose how much of the signal you fill feed the fx channel ( pre and post fader ). But bus channel is bounded by the fader level… so whatever the level of the fader is its the same level feeded in the bus. Thats helps to differentiate when to use a bus and when an fx chanel

[@v3zMedia]

Except for 10:50 makes them no different all over again. Just use the Bus people. 😂

[@gbh1946]

Wow, what a lot of info expertly explained. Thank you very much!

[@NoaShemer]

Beautifully explained. Thanks

[@tomorrowsghost]

Very helpful channel. Thanks for doing this for the community! 👍

[@anishranjansarkar1969]

You are helping me a lot, thank you for these videos.

[@eshortsax]

Since Studio One is my main DAW I often forget that all DAWS don’t have VCAs lol. For me, I rarely use VCAs, I always use a bus as a “just in case I want to add something” lol. Thank you for your helpful videos 😊

[@ianchamberlain3808]

Thank you thank you. Thie pre fader info was the missing part of the puzzle

[@studioonerevealed]

Glad it helped Ian :)

[@rikardhumbla6352]

Awesome man. Thanks alot for this video. Helps me alot:). Best regards/Rikard, Sweden

[@venusssharman5922]

Perfect... Thank you very much for this

[@studioonerevealed]

Thanks Venuss :)

[@ArmoredMeat]

Just found your channel last night. Very clear and concise explanations in your videos. Really like the more technical explanations like how the signal flows through mixer. Please keep making more awesome S1 videos. Can’t wait to see more. I would like to see your thoughts and explanation of the splitter function and any tips you could share on using it vs using multiple tracks. Thanks.

[@ChristopherJGould]

As wonderfully clear as ever. Thank you.

[@CiscoBeats]

Super great explanation 👍🏽

[@ToeShimmel]

Amazing tutorial!

[@cheribarkman1784]

Thank you

[@jwardcomo]

Brilliant!

[@matthewkolb9950]

Hey Mike, awesome video and great information, as usual. I had to look what a VCA actually stands for. Voltage Controlled Amplifier - to allow you to turn up or down a group of faders while maintaining the relative levels throughout the group. Love all your videos, thanks!

[@amimanu1]

Gracias.....

[@WojciechKobus]

Great material! Keep it up Mike!

[@dhfernandes2009]

thank you, sir!!!

[@berserkerrxii5776]

I mean at the beginning if you wanted each to have it's proper reverb eq you just move it below the room reverb. lol like in the insert just move pro eq down and eq what you need. Reverb > EQ on insert. The second way you're talking about is affecting the eq going to reverb from the send. It's to viable ways just two different ways.

[@Chilajuana]

Excellent tutorial!! What version of Studio One are you using?

[@theriffdjenerator2213]

Brilliant video thank you for this.

[@G7sus4chord]

I believe the ability to SEND from an FX channel took place with the Version 6 update to Studio One Pro (regarding the question you raised around 19:50 of the video. I'm not sure about the Artist or Prime versions)

[@MrMrMrMrT]

The extra. Bus effects are for grouping coloration or dynamics or whatever. Idk why it's different because you can just have those plugs on your fx chan

[@chaaadli]

thank u i got so much info

[@bjazz68]

Thank you very much.

[@herrunsinn774]

Mike you are without a doubt the king of reducing complex concepts down to nicely digestible bite-sized mouth-fulls. Thank you for what you do. Here's a (hopefully) simple question on routing. Let's say I have an acoustic guitar track that I run to a bus. My goal is to put a little room reverb on only the mid and upper frequencies of that track. Would a plausible method be to put a dynamic EQ in the "send" of that bus, then below that put my room reverb? The goal is to skip the reverb on the low frequencies, yet pass the mids and highs to the room reverb. Does that idea have merit? Thanks again for all you do for your viewers! ✌

[@shoresaybow]

I like to organize my tracks in folders and use these folders as busses.

[@JulienOBER]

Thanks for this video. I just want to know how to make these icons appear under the faders. Thanks

[@daveirish0812]

Looking forward to watching and learning. do you have a video on the use of custom "templates" ? also do you ever do one on one training?

[@GaryCorben]

Thought I was going crazy when following these steps for IK MODO Drums 1.5, could not drag and drop the Busses to be next to the toms that I used to follow your example. Did some digging around and it seems from forum that the ability to do this on Multi output VSTs disappeared with V3. That's a shame because the ADHD in me really needs to be grouped together LOL. Interesting you can obviously do it with Superior Drummer. Didn't see anyone else mention this in the comments...

[@hansprice1990]

I think they have FX Channels for old Nuendo/Cubase users for easy transition.

[@elijahmsishamusicgroup3546]

Love it

[@the98sound]

For HEAVENS ' sake, like, follow, and subscribe to guys that make clear, excellent advance with perfect illustrations that get straight to the point 👉 😂❤

[@Thequornsdrummingworld]

Hey Mike, I am Alan and I hope you are well! Lol, just wondering if there is a way of converting saved projects from Cakewalk for Studio One as I am considering making the change over for a variety of different reasons. Would be really cool if you have any advice about the project converting situation. Thanks mate.

[@shane_taylor]

Love your videos Mike. Clear and concise. I have a question and a comment: Question is, having discovered Cakewalk via your channel and downloading a copy, and now considering S1 which I am completely unfamiliar with atm, it seems like there are a LOT of similarities in workflow and design. Is that true in your eyes, or am I reading too much into what I'm seeing. I loved Cakewalk, but didn't like that it was free and thus worried about longevity (but that seems to have changed recently). Would like to know if you think the two DAWs are more similar than either, say, to Cubase or Reaper. I had not considered S1 because it lacked good video support, but even that looks like it is getting some love from Presonus. My comment is on the FX channel vs Bus Channel. I noticed in the video around 21:12 that the Solo button is yellow on the FX channel vs orange on the others. Is there a different Solo behavior on the FX channel vs the Bus. I would suspect that if you solo the bus, it would automatically solo everything sent to the bus. Is that true on the FX channel too? Perhaps you can just solo the FX channel? Cheers!

[@Pdro78]

Nice video thank you

[@SausageFingers73]

How do you get the inserts and sends above the fader , as mine default to alongside the fader and can't find how to change it. Call it a senior moment

[@three-l8t]

How is the reverb getting EQ if you put it before the reverb? I thought the channel reads top to bottom, which to my understanding means the input to the send is getting EQ, and then the reverb is being added after the sound is EQ.

[@ericpeterson9336]

Well, there are no "sends" in the FX Channel as of the last version of 5 Pro. I dont use them anyway in Studio One , Im an old school MACKIE 1604VLZ user who uses Busses ( or Aux 's ) , I still have the old analog flow in my mind. This is very similar in a lot of ways .

[@TomAuffarth]

Hi! I have a question: Is it possible to put a predelay on the fx send f.i. to create different predelays on just one reverb? Couldnt find it so far..

[@roytaylor6559]

Very nicely explained Sir!!. I admit, I generally use bus channels, but I like the idea of the VCA. I have to ask, how do you get the drum images under each mix channel. Is it an add on or is it exclusive to ST1 V6?

[@ironweedstudios]

I believe that it is a new feature in V6.

[@hexpro112]

Creating an empty send channel amplifies the volume of the source track. How do you approach this?

[@briandress2448]

do you know how i can have a vsti receive midi from two separate midi tracks?

[@Channel-qv4ot]

on the left side of the main track window, each track has (below the mute-solo-rec-monitor buttons) an instrument output drop-down. you can select the same instrument on multiple tracks. hope this helps.

[@TomDry]

just did it exactly as i showed and still cant control volume of this channels on the bus channel fader i got everything the same as he has and when i turned down bus fadder nothing happens what am I doing wrong?

[@HOTTETUNSIGNED]

Why is it that when I fly a hook the bus effects are no longer on the tracks it seems.. the hook doesn’t sound the same as the first please help

[@gabrielmargarit7074]

if you look in the performance window what huge latency some stock plugins like the EQ or Compressor actually have, you will probably not use them again. Similar plugins from other companies have no latency at all (at least not in ms).

[@gullcreekstudio1391]

Maybe I missed it. So how can I route different busses out of the quantum 2626s 8 outputs. Changing a channels output changes the entire masterbuss output. Im trying to sum mix out of the quantum, into the mixer and back into studio one. How can I keep the masterbuss at main output..but send individual busses out of the quantum so that im not getting phase and crosstalk issues coming back into the interface

[@dpinskey]

How can I make input control my default view? I always have to go back in and turn it on every time I load a new or saved session.

[@kaushalsharmajk]

Can I create bus for bus channel?

[@piyutopas8708]

Are there any ways of printing the fx track in studio one?

[@LonelyStarOfficial]

Can you help me i have to make a no output bus, how do i that

[@salintium]

you sound like Mike from Crerative sauce. Am I right

[@jimle22]

I have StudioOne 3.5 and it does not have the send option on my FX channel. It must have changed in either 4 or 5.

[@Artur_Chernyavsky]

Hm...doesn't BUS channel do the same things?

[@artist1303]

I went to the view tab and clicked on the full screen command and it zoomed in studio one on my screen to where I don't have the File, Edit, Song, Track, Event, Audio, Transport, View, StudioOne and Help commands anymore. How do I get my screen back to normal?

[@TheVioletShift]

I currently run three screens, mixer/edit/arrangement in fullscreen mode and I can easily see the menu bar you were talking about if I just hover my mouse at the top & they appear by doing so.

[@artist1303]

@@TheVioletShift thanks for your reply I had to change my screen resolution to get it to work

[@dpinskey]

Don’t forget pipeline hardware inserts

[@haroldbones84]

I currently run S1 v5 and I'm a little bit confused with the way plugins sound depending on the channel you put them. As I test the way plugins sound and the color they bring even the quality. I found that the best sound I hear is when using the plugins on a added Bus by right clicking the mixer channel and choosing add bus channel to the selected track. The majority of plugins I have sound best by using them like that. When using them trough fx channel (send) they sound different and even I get a little bit of volume gain when adding and fx channel. This is very confusing.

[@dorukyucebasoglu9539]

This has to do with the routing as mentioned in the video. When you add a bus channel for selected tracks, Studio One automatically routes the *output* of the track to the bus. The signal flow now becomes *Track -> Bus -> Main* (Main is the output to your speakers or headphones). When you add plugins onto that bus you're essentially doing the same thing as adding plugins directly onto the selected track, you hear the 100% wet signal (the sound after its altered by plugins). When you use sends (FX or Bus, doesn't matter) the output of the track is not routed into it, but instead it is *split and sent* to the channel. The signal flow is *Track -> Main* AND *FX or Bus -> Main* . So you hear both the track itself and the sends blended together. Hope this helps clear things up.

[@lucasturney4269]

@@dorukyucebasoglu9539 I was going to answer this, but you nailed it pretty well. I might add that I see a lot of people sending a channel and getting confused why it's suddenly overpowering, say for instance, the reverb on their send. This has to do with the fact that, if you're using an effect on a send, you *usually want to be running the signal into a plugin that's set at 100% Wet/0% Dry, if it has the option, e.g., the "Wet" knob in Exponential Audio R4 turned fully clockwise, or the "Mix" knob on Valhalla VintageVerb turned all the way to 100%. This isn't to be confused with setting the send volume (the small, blue volume line in the audio track's "Send" section,) to 100%/0dB.

[@rajendraumale1964]

I am ijust n love with you!

[@stupidusername38]

version 6 brought in sends on Sends.