Re: [sc-users] Bus questions

[David Loehlin <dloehlin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Fri, 26 Dec 2003, travis wrote:

> I'm trying to put different effects on about six different sounds (drum 
> sounds, sorry) , so I thought, simple, I'll just put each Synth on a 
> different bus, put effect after it on same bus, and then have an In.ar 
> Synth that reads all those busses and puts them on 0 (and 1?) , but it 
> seems it doesn't work this way. Stereo sounds take up two busses? Is 
> there a different way to do this?

Yeah, stereo sounds take up two busses.  

I have a couple suggestions:
1.  grit your teeth and keep track of how many busses you're using.  You
could only use even-numbered busses if you're workign with stereo
soundfiles.
2.  If that's a pain and you want something that's easier to remember, use
busses 10, 20, 30, etc.  That should keep down most of the multichannel
expansion.  Of course you still need to know which busses are being used
for when you pull everything to the audio busses.
3.  Go mono.  Retro's big these days!  Seriously, though, what's the point
of a stereo drum sample?  Though if you Mix a stereo buffer down to mono,
you still need to put it on two busses. 
 
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