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Note that you can hide and show the return tracks using the Returns command in the View
menu.
Like the normal clip tracks, the returns and the Master can host any number of effects.
However, whereas a clip track's effect processes only the audio within that track, return tracks
can process audio sent to them from numerous tracks.
For example, suppose you want to create rhythmic echoes with a delay effect. If you drag
the effect into a clip track, only clips playing in this track will be echoed. Placing this effect
in a return track lets it receive audio from any number of tracks and add echoes to them.
The Send Controls and
Pre/Post Toggle.
A clip track's Send control regulates how much of the clip track's output feeds the associated
return track's input. What's more, even the return track's own output can be routed to its
input, allowing you to create feedback. Please use this feature with care, as runaway
feedback can boost the level dramatically and unexpectedly.
Every return track has a Pre/Post toggle that determines if the signal a clip track sends to
it is tapped before or after the mixer stage (i.e., the pan, volume and track-active controls).
The Pre setting allows you to create an auxiliary mix that is processed in the return track,
independently of the main mix. As the return track can be routed to a separate output, this
can be used to set up a separate monitor mix for an individual musician in a band.
The Master track is the default destination for the signals from all other tracks. Drag effects
here to process the mixed signal before it goes to the master output. Effects in the Master
track usually provide mastering-related functions, such as compression and/or EQ.
You can create multiple return tracks using the Insert menu's Insert Return Track command,
but by denition, there is only one Master track.
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