Universal Track Mode ? Logic 9 On/Off

Is Universal Track Mode (off) the only way to create a stereo bus? Is this the best way to create sub mixes in logic?
I want to create different mixes in the same project and do it all the time in protools HD. I do like logic and wondered what is UTM On/Off is really for??

Mac Pro, Mac OS X (10.5.8)

Posted on Mar 7, 2010 3:12 PM

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Mar 7, 2010 3:29 PM in response to firsttune

If you have imported split stereo files (e.g. from protools) universal track mode off may give you better and more familiar control of them. Personally, I hate it, and would never go there. I would go to the trouble of making interleaved versions of the files, and turning UTM on.

With UTM on, of course you can create stereo auxes. If they are not already stereo when you create them, just click on the mode button on the bottom left of your bus or aux strip, and presto. The massive advantage of UTM is that you aren't forever dealing with 2 tracks at a time when really, they are 2 parts of a whole. Last time I was in pro tools land (PT 5) it was a constant pain to me, not to mention how much redundant space it took up on the screen, and forever having to use 2 plugs when 1 should do. Things may have changed since then, but I have never been tempted to find out. And if you MUST have individual control of each side of an interleaved file, you can paste another copy of it alongside the first, and using the same mode switch, choose left only for one, and right only for the other.

Mar 7, 2010 4:57 PM in response to QtheMusic

thanks for your info.

I have clicked on the mode button on the bottom left of the bus or aux strip, and the only thing that happens is that the strip becomes mono or stereo!! not the bus sections.

It does nothing to the bus sections, they always stay mono??? Both the send section and the channel strip output section!!
But if I turn the UTM mode off!!
Then I do have a choice between mono and stereo, in both the send (bus) and channel strip output (bus) sections
Any ideas???
thanks again for any leads

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