No Aux Sends to the Master bus?

[GhostsonAcid]

Heyo,

Is there a ‘technical’ (or other) reason why one cannot add an Aux Send directly to the Master bus?
~I might enjoy that additional flexibility in some contexts.

Thanks,
-J

[x42 (Robin Gareus)]

The only technical issue I can think of would be solo/mute propagation.

There are however various conceptual issues, notably sub-group busses, as well as GUI show sends logic that are at odds with this.

It’s been a while since I worked on Mixbus “master bus assign” (which basically is a send to the master), and that was rather extensive. Mixbus mute/solo logic is entirely different.
Mixbus also makes this easier because the master bus there is always stereo.

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You could however just add an aux bus, call it f.i. “main” and use it as return for all your direct sends. Then just connect that to the master-bus.

[DonJaime]

You can add an “External send” and connect it to the master bus.