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[opusinblue]

Soundpunks,

Can anyone enlighten me of the advantages of the VCA channel as oppose to creating an Aux channel and subgrouping to it. I understand what they both do but can't see why you would use a VCA for a group of channels. Some example would be nice.

[Spectrum]

Yeah, good question.

So VCA tracks is HD only?

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http://www2.digidesi...=161&navid=1124

Well functionality-wise, working as a sub-group, they both appear to provide the same concept, except reading through the blurb suggests to me that VCA tracks allow one to keep the individual tracks that are feeding it grouped together and hidden, and can be un-hidden when one wants to perform so discrete tweaks on one or more of the individual tracks.

Sure, one could do something similar with Aux tracks, except the manner of hiding / unhiding wouldn't be as elegant.

Sonically, hmmm... do you reckon they're implementing some unique 'warmth' algorithm with their many references to analogue consoles?

Or is that just plain simple marketing? I can't imagine they'd want to start messing with the clean audio path, given there are plug-ins for that.

Double Hmmm...

I'm just a lowly LE user, so no comparisons from me, I'm 'fraid.

[opusinblue]

O.K

upon further investigation it looks like the main advantages with a VCA master track is that you can assign tracks with different outputs to the VCA master. Also when you hit solo , mute or rec it does the same to the other tracks. Also i have noticed that the level meter only displays the track with the loudest signal within the group. Sorry for being lazy i should have spent the time testing them out rather than taking the easy way and posting on the ever so effecient Soundpunk.

[Anders]

The main reason I use VCA faders is to control output levels across multiple channels with different outputs without creating a new audio path. When you create a new audio path you use up extra voices/DSP.