The bottom right mixer section A1 is the default Stereo out. The bottom right section is the master out section
The rest of the A2-8 outs (here) are for additional outputs you may have selected in your Audio Preferences - Drivers section.

The top right of the mixer is AUX slots (where the signal goes when you use the AUX dials on the mixer) .. these eventually get routed to the main (bottom section) A1-8 outs (usually A1).
I made a drawing once that explained routing in RB (although it would be dated now) .. wish I still had it to share.

User guide pages 152- 154 are all I found for any help and they are pretty basic, ignoring the bottom right 'master out' section altogether.

As a basic example, if you wanted to use Ozone to master the final mix, it would go in one the the FX slots on the A1 channel in the bottom right of the mixer.

95%+ of users end up sending everything out the final A1 out in the bottom right section of the mixer, but you can use the rest of those outs to feed different sets of speakers, or other uses, if desired ... They only work if you enable the Driver outputs in Prefs and then use those Ports on selected tracks.
Theoretically you could send the bass track out to master A2 and rout that to a bass cabinet while sending the rest of the mix out A1 to stereo monitors or such.

hope that helps .. some of RB I have just figured out as I went along since documentation always seems to be lacking or lagging.
Once you get the basic concept of the routing, there are lots of options, but some simple things like labeling the bottom right mixer section as Master Outs .. and simply labeling the AUX section would help <sigh>

Oh, and if an S1 track is sent to a software synth it ends up going out the Master Out section on A1 .. I don't think you can change that, or at least I haven't done so yet.
It it goes out as MIDI to a hardware synth, then of course the routing of that hardware synth takes over for the audio out of it.

One other tidbit is the little 'All' slider between the Mixer left (Tracks) section and the right (Master) in the little sliver that separates the two .. it boosts all the tracks outputs from the left side of the mixer to the right side sections .. I just usually leave this at a 100% and adjust the tracks as needed .. but I think it initially defaults to a little less than 100%. I have absolutely no idea what those two little dials directly above the All slider do after all these years, I just leave those at 100% too.

Last edited by rharv; 03/05/24 06:10 PM.
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