Busses explained using Ableton Live

The concept of a bus explained with Ableton Live Hens Zimmerman

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Who am I? Hens Zimmerman (47), married, one child, living in the Netherlands. I work as a post production audio engineer for Dutch television. At work it’s Pro Tools that I use. At home it’s Ableton Live.









What’s a bus? A bus is a virtual wire in your DAW. It is not the source, nor the destination. A bus, much like a wire, connects a source with a destination. In this picture the red line is a bus.









Post fader bus send Sending to a bus means you have a second route for your sound to travel through your DAW. The default bus send is post fader. “Post” means “after”. It means that the bus signal will be less if you









Pre fader bus send It is also possible to send a signal to a bus “pre fader”. “Pre” means “before”. This means you can pull the fader up or down, but the amount of signal being sent to the bus is controlled only by the independent send control.









Where do we send a bus signal to? A bus signal is typically sent to an aux track. An aux track is simply another track in your DAW that has inserts (like a reverb or a delay) and a fader to control the level that’s ultimately sent to the master bus. However, an aux track almost always has a bus as its input. It’s not a track that holds any audio or MIDI regions.











Aux tracks in Ableton Live! ! are called Return Tracks. The busses are assigned automatically









Audio and MIDI tracks can both send to a return track









Return Tracks can also send to Return Tracks! This means you can make









Pre and post fader in Ableton Live Every Send to a Return Track (remember: the A, B, C etc. rotary controls we saw earlier) can be









A send can be the input for an Audio Track This gives you some very interesting routing options. For instance, you can (re)record the





















































Busses explained using Ableton Live

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