I have the following tracks: (L = hard-panned left, R = hard-panned right)
XX) LEAD FX BUS (EQ, reverb, delay, etc)
1) Guitar lead - L
2) Guitar lead - R
YY) RHYTHM FX BUS (EQ)
3) Guitar rhythm - L
4) Guitar rhythm - R
(1) and (2) have the following fx:
a) x-noise
b) tube screamer
c) amp-sim [with the tone I like for leads)
d) cabinet-sim
(3) and (4) have:
a) x-noise
b) tube screamer
c) amp-sim [with the tone I like for rhythm guitars)
d) cabinet-sim
In bold you can see the plugins that havethe same values in all 4 tracks.
My CPU is struggling (the project has more tracks that are not relevant to this case) so I wanted to save some resources.
My idea was to create a new bus for (a) and (b) (x-noise and TS), let's name it "noise TS". Send it to tracks (1), (2), (3), (4). This goes before the amp and cabinet sims, and then everything (effects a to d) are sent to their proper groups.
After trying this, I can't get it to work. And now I am wondering if this is even possible. MY idea for the tracks would be the following.
1) Track receives "noise TS"
2) track processes amp sim and cabinet simp
3) Track's effects are sent to group.
I don't know if my explanation is clear enough, if not, let me know and I'll try to make more sense. Also, if this worked would this help or the CPU use reduction would be insignificant? Is there any better way to save resources or should I just bounce each track?
XX) LEAD FX BUS (EQ, reverb, delay, etc)
1) Guitar lead - L
2) Guitar lead - R
YY) RHYTHM FX BUS (EQ)
3) Guitar rhythm - L
4) Guitar rhythm - R
(1) and (2) have the following fx:
a) x-noise
b) tube screamer
c) amp-sim [with the tone I like for leads)
d) cabinet-sim
(3) and (4) have:
a) x-noise
b) tube screamer
c) amp-sim [with the tone I like for rhythm guitars)
d) cabinet-sim
In bold you can see the plugins that havethe same values in all 4 tracks.
My CPU is struggling (the project has more tracks that are not relevant to this case) so I wanted to save some resources.
My idea was to create a new bus for (a) and (b) (x-noise and TS), let's name it "noise TS". Send it to tracks (1), (2), (3), (4). This goes before the amp and cabinet sims, and then everything (effects a to d) are sent to their proper groups.
After trying this, I can't get it to work. And now I am wondering if this is even possible. MY idea for the tracks would be the following.
1) Track receives "noise TS"
2) track processes amp sim and cabinet simp
3) Track's effects are sent to group.
I don't know if my explanation is clear enough, if not, let me know and I'll try to make more sense. Also, if this worked would this help or the CPU use reduction would be insignificant? Is there any better way to save resources or should I just bounce each track?