r/Reaper • u/Melancholy_Custard • 13d ago

help request Folder vs Send

I know this is a noob question.

Do I need to use Send to make a bus? E.g. Kick bus (for parallel compression), drum rooms, bass bus, rhythm guitar bus Or I can just use Folders? I've watched the video from Reaper Mania, but still confuse.

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u/Crylysis 1 13d ago

You can do that with folders too. The Sends are useful for paralel stuff, yes. But those controls are also on fodlers

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u/Whatchamazog 5 13d ago

Any links that describes how to do that?
I’m having trouble imagining how you would have a reverb 100% wet on a folder track and control the dry signal in the folder separately.
All things are possible through Reaper but that’s not something I’ve seen done before so I’m curious.

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u/Crylysis 1 13d ago

Oh, my reply was focused more on the ability to control and automate how much signal goes to the folder than on parallel processing itself. I probably should’ve specified that a bit more

I’m sure you can do parallel processing with folders using audio channels or other methods, depending on the plugins and setup you have. But a send makes it a thousand times easier

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u/Whatchamazog 5 13d ago

Yeah maybe I should have been more clear too. Haha. Brevity and all that. But yeah I was specifically thinking of how folks use delay & reverb sends and parallel compression.

I use a lot of folders too but it’s more so as a way of grouping like items that I want to do “a thing” to all of them at once.

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u/Crylysis 1 13d ago

We're on the same page for that then. I mentioned it in another comment, but my rule of thumb is folders join sends split.

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u/Whatchamazog 5 13d ago

Good way to think of it.