User Manual

CHAPTER 13. ROUTING AND I/O 178
Creating Submixes
Submixing the Individual
Drums of a Drum Kit.
Suppose we have the individual drums of a drum kit coming in on separate tracks for
multitrack recording. In the mix, we can easily change the volumes of the individual drums,
but adjusting the volume of the entire drum kit against the rest of the music is less convenient.
Therefore, we add a new audio track to submix the individual drums. The drum tracks are
all set to output to the submix track, which outputs to the Master. The submix track gives
us a handy volume control for the entire drum kit.
Alternatively, you could combine the separate drum tracks into a Group Track for even more
exibility. This automatically creates the necessary output routings and also allows you to
hide or show the component tracks.
Several MIDI Tracks Playing the Same Instrument
Consider a MIDI track containing a virtual instrument  a Simpler playing a pad sound, for
example. We have already recorded MIDI clips into this track when we realize that we would
like to add an independent, parallel take for the same instrument. So we add another MIDI
track. We could now drag another Simpler into the new track, but we would really like to
reuse the Simpler from the pad track, so that changing the pad's sound affects the notes
from both tracks.