Topic: Notes on Aux sending – using current tools, & the future

As it stands, Podium does not natively support Aux bussing, but using Tobybears MixBox, some of Jaltoh’s plugins or Senderella (See KvR to where to get them) it can be simulated.

I have used mainly mixbox, but what I have found with this applies elsewhere.

Basically all goes well, and the sends/ returns can be implemented efficiently, apart from when it comes to bouncing.

Scenario:

Master

|

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---Track1

|          ---Track2

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---Track3

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---DrumTrack1

|          ---MixBox2 Send

|                    ---DrumTrack2

|          ---DrumTrack3

|          ---DrumTrack4

---Reverb

|          ---MixBox1 Return

---Delay

---MixBox2 Return

All goes well here, feeds from all the tracks can get sent to their relevant ‘Aux Channels’. There is a bit of DrumTrack2 fed into a delay, as well as the reverb.

Now then, if the Drums are put into a group and bounced:

Master

|

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---Track1

|          ---Track2

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---Track3

---MixBox1 Send

|          ---Bounced Drums Group

|                    ---DrumTrack1

|                    ---MixBox2 Send

|                              ---DrumTrack2

|                    ---DrumTrack3

|                    ---DrumTrack4

---Reverb

|          ---MixBox1 Return

---Delay

---MixBox2 Return

All the reverbs sound as before, but since the Drums Group is acting as a bounced track, anything going on WITHIN the group is no longer processed – so the send to the delay no longer happens.

To get around this, the Delay needs to be bounced at the same time as the rest of the track is bounced, and the audio from there stored something like:

Step 1:

   ---Delay

---MixBox2 Return

becomes

   ---Delay [DrumTrack2] Bounce

---Delay

---MixBox2 Return

Step 2:

   ---Delay Group

---Delay [DrumTrack2] Bounce

---Delay

---MixBox2 Return

That way everything is preserved.

It’s a bit fiddly, and you need to keep a clear head. Naming the tracks and clips with what they are is helpful.

I give this as a warning to Frits as well, that when implementing Auxes, it might be worth having this automated as an option [ie when creating a bounce, or aux send behind a bounce a warning should be made about it, and provision for individual bounces can be put in place].

Well there you go.

Hope that helps anyone else investigating this area.

DSP