Question

Hello !

1 - Example - we have one audio and one instrument track with plugins and CTC-1 on master bus. And we want to freeze this tracks. I've discovered that CTC-1 not affect tracks in freezing process, but usual it places before the inserts, correct ? So after freeze I'm getting MixFX instance after inserts, and it changes a sound to unwanted way, because compressors was in relationship with CTC-1 tone shape before freezing. Best would be to freeze it together and block for further MixFX processing, with small attention sign on track.
1.1 - Or ability to put MixFX after inserts but before faders and sends, so it will stay in same chain position, and sound will not change.

2 - Also I've discovered same behavior for bounce to new track, MixFX disabling(it's ok for me, but maybe think about some button to turn it on)

3 - And stems export(It is useful when you give out multitrack to client in the end of work, and I don't want to create bus for every single track and put CTC-1 there)))

Answer 1

Upvoted. The fact that MixFX don't affects stems or Transforming just shows that the people who design these features are clearly not designed by people who use them. So far I have found the MixFX sonically interesting, musically evocative, but in many cases useless in the real world because of limitations like this.

Answer 2

That's not to say I don't love using CTC-1 when I'm doing the 2-track mixdown, but I don't have the artistic luxury of deciding the workflow for every project based around my preference of console emulation. There are more practical considerations to make. Sometimes who will be mixing a project, when they'll be mixing it, and how they'll be mixing it dictates whether I send stems or a 2-track or whatnot. So in many songs it's simpler to not even start it with CTC-1 involved in the fiirst place.