Hello, I 've been planning my virtual mixer routing scheme in the FL Studio until I ran into a problem, or rather, I began to lack understanding of how the mixer works. I will try to describe what exactly I have on my mind and I hope to hear from you if it does work like that in at least one DAW.

There is a vocal bus, that gathers lead, backs and airs. It processes the main tone of the voice, after what it must be sent to reverb send. The question is: is it possible to have separated "backs" output, to send it processed but separated, so no other bus signals will trigger the reverb?

I'm just learning how to use the software, yet I have seen that most people use separate plugin chains for different vox tracks. Like, we just copypaste one track FX-state to others, so we get tripled (!) cpu consumption when played. Of course we can render audio and disable FX afterwards, but that just complicates obvious tweaking of the knobs.

So is there a way to have one instance (FX-chain) processing all of our tracks and giving separate outputs from itself?

Thanks in advance.

P.S. Is that the same question that I'm asking?

I'm tired and not sure I'm following but a bus sums signals together, usually before processing, so once that has happened you can't separate the sources.

The closest you could get is to send the tracks to the bus, and send the tracks also to whatever sizes you need. You'll be triggering the effects from the unprocessed individual tracks, but it may be fine for some situations.

Or you could have separate busses for the backups and lead ECT,and send those to the various sizes. This would reduce the amount of DSP instances you'd need relative to having chsinston every track.

You then could bus those groups into a main vocal bus to handle and do any processing and sending that needs to be on all tracks.

There's no way to separate tracks after they are bussed together. Once combined they stay that way. So you either do parallel Processing, or do a series of busses and sub busses, to minimize the number of plugin instances you need, as I described above.