You're thinking hardware - this is software! You've got an infinite number of buses and tracks to play around with, so the kind of associations you are thinking of no longer make sense. And buses can send to buses....
They still make sense, they just have more room to grow.
I guess what I'm saying is I'd like to have the hardware model as a basis from which one can get going quickly. The ctrl+shift method of assigning send outputs would have made that go a bit quicker.
Thanks. I read it. That's an awful cumbersome workaround. This is definately a case where I believe the hardware model would be superior. Instead of pushing one button to help dial in a sound I now have to hit half a dozen or more. Similarly instead of having a true PFL from an input channel (recorded track) I now have to mute any sends it goes to to hear it dry. I mix live for a living. Speed counts. Any recording I work on will be of a similar nature. I'd like to think I'll be able to dial up a rough mix for a client as fast as I could on a conventional console. With the added bonus of not being limited to a fixed number of sends or groups (busses). I'm lovin' all the work they put into this release but this solo setup is just plain kludgy.
JTC