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Mix a reverb or monitor bus from its receives

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To balance everything feeding a reverb or headphone bus, open the bus itself and switch to its receives. Each track that sends to it shows as a strip, with the same fader, pan, mute and routing as that track’s own send. Channel Detail is part of the one-time unlock.

  1. Open the bus in Channel Detail.
  2. At the top of the plugin rail, tap SENDS on the FX / SENDS switch.
  3. In the header, tap RECEIVES on the SENDS / RECEIVES switch. On a narrow screen the switch is under ⋮ in the header. The header now reads RECEIVES.
  4. Balance the sources: each strip, footed in the source track’s colour, sets that track’s send into this bus.
  5. To add a source, tap the + card and pick the track in Receive from…. It starts at −inf. Raise its fader.
  6. To remove a source, long-press its footer and confirm Remove.

A receive is the source track’s send seen from the other end. Adding one here also shows it on that track’s own SENDS view.

If it doesn’t work

  • The master has no receives view. Tracks reach the master through their main output, not a send.
  • You want each musician to set their own mix. Use Sends on Fader on their own device instead: see Give every band member their own monitor mix.