In my workflow i very often create an audiobus and several audiotracks which i then route (one after another) to the bus i just created. I would like to be able to set a track/bus to which the all the created audio tracks are routed to during their creation. like this i would not spend so much time to set each track manualy.
I just noticed that there is an option to leave the dialogue for creating tracks open while creating tracks. Thats very helpfull.
- add the tracks, they will be selected
- right click on the left (in the editor) or above (in the mixer), and pick “Create group from selection”
- right click on the group tab and create “Add subgroup bus”
Done.
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Great! Learned a new feature today! 
Thanks! This will help in my usecase. Would be cool to also have this kind of routing option for allready existing busses.
the options multiply … busses can be used with aux sends or as subgroup busses; quite different …
Preferably use “Add aux bus…” that way sends are used. This allows for latency compensation in case you plan to use any latent FX on any of the source tracks.
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Hi @erojahn. Not long ago I’ve discovered that you can right click in the “Show Sends” box of a desired BUS and there are a bunch of options in order to add tracks to this BUS. Perhaps one of these will be useful. Besides, don’t forget the “Audio Connections” window and the routing grid, I’ve found that are really interesting tools.
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Forgive me if this is obvious - for clarity, you mean it’s best practice to use aux sends (eg. post-fader at 100%) instead of routing each track’s output to a bus?
Until now, I always created tracks and routed the outputs to busses via the button at the bottom of each track. Never gave any thought to latency compensation 
Apologies if I misunderstand something obvious here.
Haha, i also recently discovered this and was amazed how many things you could click and find new functionality in Ardour. 
Iirc there was no option to route multiple selected tracks to the bus.
I was also confused about this. I don’t get any latency when playing back tracks routed through several busses with a couple hundreds of ms plugindelay.
@Robin, So the aux bus with sends has a different compensation system to groups? I’ve seen inferences along those lines on the MixBus forum but with very little along the lines of explanations. Is there any additional info available?
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Direct connections to busses are fine as long as you’re doing “many-to-one” connections, “one-to-many” connections may lead to ambiguous latency situations as explained here by Robin. Long story short: If you need to connect a track to multiple busses, use aux-sends instead.
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Thanks, this is the level of detail I was hoping for.
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