Having trouble hearing playback from the bus with routed tracks

Hey again,

Sorry for not being clear, when I said track stack I did in fact mean summing stack. I have no trouble with the summing groups I already have, but what I want to do now is route the output of all of my instruments and groups of instruments to one final instrument bus, that way I can treat everything but the vocals on one channel.

As far as I can tell I'm doing this correctly, it seems like a pretty simple routing job. But when I start playback in the session I only hear the vocals, in other words everything being sent to that bus is not audible. I mentioned the summing groups because I figured the problem might have been caused by audio being routed to a bus and subsequently to another bus, but there are also some standalone tracks being sent to the instrument bus and I cannot hear any of them either when the playback is not functioning properly.

It doesn't seem to be consistent, but I will try to describe what happens when I don't hear playback:

• Usually when I have selected the bus and turned on input monitoring I hear everything passing through the bus with no problem, but when I click on another track the sound stops. (This leads me to believe it could possibly have to do with an input monitoring setting, not sure though).
• Occasionally after playback has stopped working through that bus, toggling on record enable on the bus will cause the audio to resume. But frustratingly, this doesn't always work.
• Lastly, sometimes nothing I do will make the audio route through the instrument bus properly. Deleting the track and making an identical one sometimes temporarily solves the problem.

Sorry if this is confusing, I tried to outline as much of it as I could think of, please let me know if there is any other info that might be helpful. If necessary I could make a short screen recording demonstrating.

Thanks,

Jack

Hey Eddie,

Yes, the track stack routing works just fine. The problem only arises when I then route the audio from those track stacks to the instrument bus. I manually set all of their outputs to bus 8, and the input of the bus I had created to bus 8. I can sometimes hear audio coming through it, but sometimes not, it seems extremely unreliable.

Hey,

I know that about input monitoring, that's why I thought it was really odd that I could only hear audio passing through my bus when I toggled it on.

Secondly, when you say summing bus, you just mean a bus created that hosts many instruments, correct? That is what I'm currently trying to set up but I want to be sure we're talking about the same thing.

I've attached two screen recordings, the first is from the session I am currently working on, the second from a new blank one where I replicated the problem. The same issue occurs in the blank session. (The picture and audio quality are pretty low but they should still illustrate the issue).

youtube.com/watch?v=mzS-rh_L9Uk&ab_channel=JackBobley

https://youtu.be/2Z2gPF0NKbg

Thank you!

I wasn't clear on the distinction between creating an aux track and using an audio track as a makeshift aux, but that makes total sense now that I think about it. Everything is working great now! Thank you for your time and assistance