| Nesting a complex setup away into one tidy, "spaghetti-free" space in your Rack is more than just a convenience for big projects. When even a well-organized submix strategy becomes slow to navigate, converting submixes to Combinator patches will add another layer of organization to your project. To combine a submix 1. | Select all the instruments, Mixers, and effects in a particular submix and choose Edit > Combine (Figure 10.9). Figure 10.9. This Combinator is holding an orchestral submix.
The Combinator will not change the submix inputs and outputs. | 2. | Assign the rotary knobs and buttons to device parameters (Figure 10.10). Figure 10.10. In this Combinator, rotary knobs are assigned to orchestral instrument group channels.
| 3. | Name the Combinator device as you want it to appear in the master Mixer. | 4. | Save the patch, and from now on you can load this setup into any song. |
If you know you're going to be scoring a large project with lots of instruments, you can organize your instruments into combinations from the start. To start a project inside a Combinator 1. | In an empty Rack, create a 6:2 or 14:2 Mixer to use as your master Mixer. | 2. | With your Mixer selected, create a new Combinator. Reason will connect the Combinator to the master Mixer automatically. | 3. | Click in the Combinator device area and create another Mixer to use for the instruments that you'll create inside the Combinator (Figure 10.11). Figure 10.11. Create a Mixer inside a Combinator if you know your project will be complicated.
| 4. | Start creating instruments and writing your tracks. |
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