noob question about routing

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i recently got back into qtractor and foss audio after using sunvox for a while. one thing i'm trying to do as a test is route the audio from midi tracks with synth plugins into a bus with b.shapr so i can do a "sidechaining" effect. sadly, i have no idea what i'm doing when it comes to routing

i tried using aux sends, but i must be routing things incorrectly, because the audio still seems to go straight to the master instead of the bus i created

would someone help me out pls? thx

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alright so i discovered the output menu for the midi tracks (you have to right click on it and go to the "audio" section), and i can see the bus's meters dancing around now, but how to i route it to the master? with the connections, it seems to go to the input, but i need it to go to the output

EDIT: discovered i can do this by clicking the "monitor" button on the master input bus, but is there any other way?

rule number one, in a sentence: internally--and that's what we're dealing here--it never "goes to the input"; internally, all signals _always_ flows towards output buses ;)

on MIDI tracks, the audio signal goes to the first defined output bus, being quite usually the one named after "Master Out" by default;
however you may select and choose to any other audio output bus if you prefer--that's exactly the suggestion you followed there;
if you wish to "tap" or "fork" to yet another output bus as well then that's exactly the purpose of an "Aux Send".

hth.
cheers

because Connections deal with _external_ connections, outside to qtractor itself; for some reason the routing we've been talking about has been all _internal_ ;)

byee

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okay, so what is the best way (if there are more than one) to route the output of a bus to the output of the master bus?

with an "Aux Send" you can route the tapped signal to the internal input of an output bus;

the output of an output bus is a set of JACK output ports, so you may connect them externally to anywhere as long as there are JACK input ports out there; note that routing outputs to outputs makes no sense.

hth.
cheers

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