Hi, I am currently working on creating a mixing desk in Pure Data but i want to make a fourth channel which is a return from a reverb unit. I want to be able to have a reverb send from each channel with the fourth channel being a stereo return from the reverb. I'm not sure whether to have a freeverb object on each channel which then has master controls to change each value at once or if there is a better way of doing things so that each channel goes into one object but the values for the reverb can be different on each. Sorry if this doesn't make much sense i'm just really having trouble thinking about it...

I just wanted to know what people thought was the best way of going about this since I think i'm confusing myself by thinking about it way to much.

Thanks in advance for any help

Hi Escijoe,

professional mixers usually have for each effect unit extra send on the mixer strip. It means all the strips (channels) are sharing one effect through specific send.

Here is schema for mixer I am building in pd. It is just one strip (channel)

https://docs.google.com/drawings/d/1gTisKW4Sv_NQhzDw20OOfsjouvxOMF7_35yknb9cDEA/edit

I recommend build each strip (channel) as abstraction and then connect as many as you need together (and add master controls). Also be careful with VU meters - they are quite CPU eaters.

Looking forward to your version.

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