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Originally Posted by ashcat_lt
Yes.
Terms like Bus and Aux are convenient ways to communicate. However those are implemented is kind of arbitrary. Everybody pretty much gets the gist of what you're doing when you use these words.
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Yeah, in the old days we had Inputs which were the tracks you would plug a mic or quarter inch plug into.
Then we had Tape Sends that we would send to a multi-track tape machine, along with the Tape Returns coming back from the muti-tracks.
Auxiliary or "Aux" also had sends and returns, they were primarily for outboard FX. Back then "outboard" meant FX modules outside of the mixer.
Professional boards also had group faders that were used primarily for mixing, these were often called busses.
Then there were the "Inserts" on the inputs, These were used to send out to a FX or outboard module that would then return back to the input, sometimes with 2 different quarter inch plugins or one stereo quarter inch plugin.
With Reaper there really is no distinction, a track is a track is a track. However as ashcat alludes to, continued use of these terms can can help in understanding things better. The problem is that in the DAW age I don't think there is a standardized use for these terms, at least not with Reaper. Probably because the routing is so flexible.
So it's pretty confusing, because these terms are kind of thrown around quite loosely.
I would love if we could make some of these terms standard especially on this forum.