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Grouping all your colours to output through a single mixer track
Is there a way to send all the outputs of your tracks to a single track almost like a pre-master?
I tried adding a new colour on the mixer (Bright Red) and changed the destination of all my other colours to Bright Red instead of 1/2 but can't hear any of the tracking coming through the Bright Red track on my mixer.
Thanks!
Armen
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Colors can't monitor other colors and are essentially an output bus for the recorded clips of that color. You could send the output of your colors to a bus that targets bright red and 1/2 so that they are recorded to red and also are audible before red has been recorded.
I see. Thanks for the info
Perhaps if I explain what I'm trying to achieve you can suggest a work around?
As soon as I have a bunch of vocal loops going it gets harder and harder to hear my vocal input in order to record new loops (particularly ones that are more subtle in performance). My hope was to group all of my track colours to a "Monitor" track so that I could turn down the entire mix while keeping my mic input volume the same, making it much easier to hear my voice in relation to all the loops that are already playing back. So there would be a "Monitor" track I'd have volume control over, and the Master track that goes out to the PA that I wouldn't touch.
To do what you want, all your colors and your mic input could go to a bus for monitoring in addition to the main outputs. The send levels to the bus would give you control over the relative volumes.
You need to have separate monitor and mains outputs so that you can send the bus output to your monitor. Are you using a multi-output interface?
Yes, I'm using a multi-output interface!
This makes sense to me, though I suspect I can't send my reverb busses to said monitoring bus because busses can't be bussed?
Unfortunately buses can't yet be bused. But if you aren't pushing your cpu limits, you could put a reverb as an insert effect.
There is a hack that one can do to send buses to buses if latency can be tolerated. There is a plugin bundle called kq voice that can work around the bus-to-bus limitation. There is a little bit of latency but that might be ok for reverb.
Ok sweet - thanks for all the super helpful info.
One last thing while I have you: is it possible to change the output of the Master. It seems to be set to 1/2 by default. Could I change it to 3/4, 5/6 etc... based on the multiple outputs of my interface?
THANK YOU!
The master channel n Loopy’s mixer does not determine the output destinations. What output a mixer channel goes to is set by the destination of the mixer channel.