sowbug
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1 year ago Trying to get terminology right. Here's what I have now:
- An aux track doesn't generate any sound on its own.
- A regular track can "send" its output audio to an aux track.
- An aux track can "return" its output to another aux track or to the main mixer.
My original thinking was that a mixer could combine various audio outputs, and then you'd do effects on that. This is fine, but it was leading me to an ugly place in the UI where it becomes more like a tree structure, or actually a bidirectional tree that ends up being a DAG. Which was definitely not what conventional DAWs look like.
But auxes are typically represented as another audio track, except they don't have instruments. Instead, other tracks indicate that they send their output to one or more auxes (with gain controls). Aux tracks can send to other aux tracks as well.
I'm leaving space for this in the current GUI; aux tracks are displayed last.