Can anyone give me (in laymans terms!) directions to set up an fx send/return that ANY track can use.
You work with busses in Podium the same way you work with plugins: You insert tracks with send mappings in the hierarchy where you want to extract audio. On one or more tracks elsewhere in the hiearchy you then add tracks with the return mappings.
If you are looking for a way to automatically have one or more bus sends preassigned for each audio track you add, then you can use track templates: You create a new track, wrap it in one or more parent tracks with bus send mappings assigned, right-click the topmost track in the chain you want to reuse, select “copy group to template” and give it a name such as “bus send chain”. When you next time use the “new track” menu the “bus send chain” is available in the submenu.