in this tracktion tutorial I'm going to show you how to easily add a drum bus
also known as a submix in tracktion waveform and you can do this in
Waveform free and in waveform Pro 11 I'm Zane from audiotechtv.com and on this
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waveform and as I go along with the tutorial you'll be able to see why
adding a drum bus or sub mix to your projects is a great tool to use so first
you want to select all of the tracks that you want in your drum bus or in
your submix so you would just click and then hold down ctrl on your computer
keyboard and click on the rest of the tracks you want when you have all of the
tracks that you want selected right click on one of them over in this
section here and then you want to click on create a sub mix track containing and
now that just created a submix and all of these tracks are now in there and
don't worry you can add more tracks in there or take tracks out of the sub mix
and I'll show you how to do that in just a bit
but right now let's look at why you might want to use this and as you can
see I have all my drum parts in here I have the kick drum snare hi-hat cymbals
and room mics so I can easily add effects like I have compressors on the
kick snare and hi-hat s'right now but now I can also add effects to all of the
tracks by putting them on the sub mix track and to do that I would just right
click here go to add new plug-in and then I would find the plug-in that I
want to add and this is great for adding an overall compressor EQ and maybe even
some reverb to all of your drums so they blend together in the mix and just so
you know you don't need to have an actual drummer or drum recording to do
this you can do this with plugins I used MT power drum kit for this and
I've laid out all of my drum parts in a master MIDI file I then created another
track with Mt power drum kit on it and I copied just the kick drums and then I
copied just the snare and I rendered each
- a WAV file so I had all of these and for the room mic ones I just added some
different room style reverbs to create an overall room mic sound so now I have
audio files that I can work with and it really helps to give your drums a more
professional sound and make them sound different from everyone else and you can
just click on this triangle here and it will close all of the tracks so you
don't see them you just see the drum buss or you can click on it and you can
see all of your drums and you can solo and mute individual tracks within the
sub mix and you can also solo or mute the sub mix itself and that's going to
solo or mute everything within it and you can also rename your sub mix by just
clicking on it and then you just go down here to name and you can name it
whatever you want and if you want you can add a little image in there you just
right click set image and then choose your drum kit if that's what you want in
there so now I'm going to solo the drum bus here and we can give a listen to how
this all blends together and that was just quickly messing around with a free
compressor plug-in that I'll link to in the description in case you don't have
that one but you can see how powerful it can be to use a drum bus or sub mix in
your projects and now like I said earlier you can easily add or remove
tracks from the sub mix so to remove a track you would just
click on the name of it and then you would just drag it out of the sub mix
and now you can see that track is no longer in our submix and if you want to
bring it back in or bring another track in you would just do the same thing you
would click and drag it into the sub mix and you can rearrange your tracks in
here however you like and also sub mixes aren't just for drums you can use it on
guitars or any other instrument that you really want to you can even put sub
mixes into other sub mixes so you could actually select all of your tracks and
all of your sub mixes put them into another sub mix and that would be your
master buss and that's just something you can do if you want and as you can
see it's a very easy tool to use and it can really help you with your mixes now
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