How to record a send/aux only?

[Sombreuil]

Hi and congratulation for this new forum, it's a great idea.

I have a delay on a send and I'd like to capture/record it without recording the audio source. I believe it is possible since v5 or v6, but I have no idea how to do that. I'm on v6 if that helps.

Any help would be gladly appreciated.

 

[Dave71]

I do believe there's a way but I usually simply set that effect (did this with a very CPU heavy reverb) to 100% wet and then record or export that. But I do believe you can choose such a channel in the export stems dialog

 

[SwitchBack]

How would you use this delay track without source? I'm asking because often such a track ends up sounding almost exactly like source+delay, only a fraction later.

Anyway, I would probably switch the FX-bus to pre-fader, mute everything but the FX-bus, and bounce the main output to a new track.

 

[Gray Wolf]

I assume the delay is more than just a simple single copy, that maybe it has feedback and ping pong or other effects.

Export a stem of only the FX channel to get an audio file of it.

 

[Sombreuil]

I do believe there's a way but I usually simply set that effect (did this with a very CPU heavy reverb) to 100% wet and then record or export that. But I do believe you can choose such a channel in the export stems dialog

That's a good workaround I didn't think about.

How would you use this delay track without source? I'm asking because often such a track ends up sounding almost exactly like source+delay, only a fraction later.

Anyway, I would probably switch the FX-bus to pre-fader, mute everything but the FX-bus, and bounce the main output to a new track.

There is a track source, but I don't want to actually hear it. The goal is to only capture the tail of the delay, if that makes sense. The pre-fader trick seems to work though.

I assume the delay is more than just a simple single copy, that maybe it has feedback and ping pong or other effects.

Export a stem of only the FX channel to get an audio file of it.

That's pretty much the idea yeah.

 

[Dave71]

That's a good workaround I didn't think about.

And it can be really quick too. Just copy the track, then set the plugin to 100% wet, then render that track. It is probably the fastest even