Unassigned Outputs Work as Subgroups When this checkbox is enabled, any audio output ports that do not currently have a driver port assigned to them will function as subgroups. A subgroup is a bus or signal path that gives you the ability to control several tracks as a group.

For example, let’s suppose you only have one Audio Output Driver port installed in RealBand, and you’ve enabled the Unassigned Outputs Work As Subgroups checkbox. In this case, Audio Output Ports 2 through 15 will now function as subgroups. If, for example, you were to then set the output ports of tracks 2, 3, and 4, to Port 2,(which is now called Subgroup 2). , and you were to adjust the volume of Subgroup 2 in the mixer (the same way you do for output ports), this will affect the volume of all 3 tracks as a whole. You could also add effects to the Subgroup in the mixer the same way you do for output ports. For example, you could apply an EQ to the subgroup as a whole.

NOTE: if any of the tracks in a subgroup are also using Aux busses for effects, you should ideally set the output port of the aux busses to the same port number as the subgroup. NOTE: The output port of the aux bus is set in the Mixer window, in the panel for the aux bus. If the tracks are all using subgroup 2 (which is port 2), then whatever Aux buses are being used by those tracks should be set in the mixer to use port 2 as the output. The reason: If the tracks are using aux busses that are assigned to a different output port than the subgroup itself, then adjusting the volume of the subgroup would affect the wet/dry ratio of the tracks in the subgroup that use those aux busses. The Aux output therefore needs to be set to the same subgroup as any tracks that use the Aux bus. For example, if the tracks were output to Subgroup 2, but they were using Aux 1 which was output to port 1, then lowering the Volume control for Subgroup 2 would cause the subgroup to sound more "wet" because lowering the volume would NOT reduce the volume of Aux 1’s signal (since it is being routed directly to Port 1.) To avoid this, Aux 1 would have to be set to use port 2 in the mixer and not port 1.

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