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Ride a reverb or bus send from every fader with Sends on Fader

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Sends on Fader turns the mixer into a send mixer for one destination. Tap SoF, pick the bus, and each strip’s fader, pan and mute now control that track’s send to it. This is free.

  1. In the Mixer, tap SoF in the top bar. The Send to… picker opens.
  2. Tap the bus you want, for example your reverb. The button now reads Send to and the bus name, tinted in its colour, and the mixer border takes the same tint.
  3. Drag a fader to set that track’s send level. The pan bar sets the send pan, and M mutes the send only.
  4. Tap the routing button, where solo usually sits, to cycle POST, PREFX and PRE. Post follows the channel fader, which suits a reverb. Pre ignores it, which suits a headphone mix. Prefx taps the signal before the track’s plugins.
  5. A faded strip has no send to this bus yet. Touch any of its controls and the send is created on the spot.
  6. Trim the whole send mix on the master slot, which now shows the bus’s own fader tagged AUX.
  7. Tap the button again to leave send mode. To send to another bus, tap SoF and pick it.

In the picker, long-press a track to pin it under PINNED, so the buses you use every session are one tap away. RECENT fills in as you go.

Automation still works in send mode. In Touch, Latch or Write, your fader rides are recorded as send automation.

If it doesn’t work

  • The bus is not on any strip. While you send to a bus, it is hidden from the strips so you cannot send it to itself. Its fader is the AUX master slot.
  • There is no SoF button. The bar may be folded or customized. Look under ⋮ (More).