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[blinddrew]

Thank you Matt.

Drums are red obviously.

[CS70]

Nada. I just checked and they're still pink. Don't know what the DAW is thinking :lol:

[The Elf]

Drums are red obviously.

+1! (though I downgrade them to orange to leave red for temporary warnings!) :lol:

Speaking as one who enjoys synaesthesia, once I've coloured the tracks in my arrangement I find getting around as natural as breathing. Bass green, guitar blue, strings yellow...

[desmond]

I tend to think of guitars in various shades of light orange to dark brown - eg, acoustic guitar will be a fairly bright orange, as it's a lightish sound, then electric guitars will be darker shades of orange or brown, down to basses which will be dark brown.

Strings will often be yellowey, but I don't have too much of a convention for other stuff. Maybe vocals will be pinkish, with the min vocal being lighter pink to stand out more from the darker pink bvox.

Pads and waftey sounds maybe in the blue range, again, often lighter sounds with lighter shades, heavier sounds with darker shades.

To be honest colour selection in Logic isn't that flexible, you can only choose from a predefined bunch of colours which is a little silly...

[siderealxxx]

Glad I'm not the only one who meticulously colours everything in. I even use the little icons!

More colour options in Logic would be nice though; Sunburst, tolex, wooden end cheeks...!

[siderealxxx]

Track stacks are simply a way to have one self-contained channel strip that consists of multiple other channel strips inside it.

I just did a test on this and it differs from your example in that the destination of a send on a track isn't automatically routed into the master.

From Apple: "The destination aux of the bus is assigned to the main track." But I'm not seeing this behaviour... I can route it manually though but then I'm just doing the same as before...

[desmond]

I just did a test on this and it differs from your example in that the destination of a send on a track isn't automatically routed into the master.

From Apple: "The destination aux of the bus is assigned to the main track." But I'm not seeing this behaviour... I can route it manually though but then I'm just doing the same as before...

I don't really know what you are doing, but if, for example, you've already created a track stack, and then added a send from a channel in the track stack expecting the created aux you're sending to to be automatically added to the track stack, it doesn't (and nor should it - you are free to send subtracks to whatever auxes you want, those auxes aren't forced or moved into the track stack. You don't want, for example, a global reverb to be moved into the drum bus just because you sent the snare to it).

If you specifically want an aux contained in the track stack, you should either create the track stack including the aux (ie whatever channels you want in the track stack) or move the aux into the track stack.

[siderealxxx]

If you specifically want an aux contained in the track stack, you should either create the track stack including the aux (ie whatever channels you want in the track stack) or move the aux into the track stack.

Fair enough! The wording implied otherwise. I guess it's just a neater way of working with some other benefits - cheers

[desmond]

Exactly, yep!