Logic Magician, buses, and plugins.

[John Isige]

Hi all.

So I am slowly doing some stuff with Logic Magician. I can add plugins to a track just fine with either the number or 'x' to change them. I can add a bus with shift-number.

From the documentation, I was under the impression that if I add a bus, or pick an existing one with shift-number, I could then hit a plugin number and either add a plugin to that bus, or change it with 'x', just as if it were a regular track.

Here are my steps.

1. Create the standard software instrument project with the electric piano.
2. Hit shift-equals to add a midi plugin, pick chord trigger.
3. Use the menu to pick intervals, fifths. This isn't necessary, just what I did.
4. Hit shift-number until the search comes up, i.e. you're adding a new bus/send. Arrow down to bus, add one.
5. Hit shift-(the number you just added). It says the name of the bus you just added.

I was under the impression that now, if I hit cmd-up/down, I could change the send volume, and if I hit a number, I could add a plugin. However, if I hit 1, I just hear it announce "chord trigger", which is the first plugin on the main track. I forget what cmd-up announced, but I don't think it was a volume change. I'm sure, as usual, I am missing something super obvious or just misunderstanding something about the documentation. Can somebody straighten me out?

Thanks in advance for any help, and thanks for Logic Magician. I am really enjoying it so far, I bought Keyboard Maestro during the trial period and have told a friend about it, whether they'll end up using it or not I don't know, but I've talked about how useful I've found it so far, even with my very limited learning, and passed on some of the videos so they can see it in action for themselves.

[TheOreoMonster]

• Change send value, Page Up/Page Down (FN Up/Down arrows on Laptops or keyboards without number pads).
• Change send value in smaller increments, Shift-Page Up/Page Down (Shift FN Up/Down arrows on Laptops or keyboards without number pads).

Switch between currently selected track, the (primary), and it’s output or send/Aux track, (the secondary), by pressing Control-Tab
If you adjust the send level for an AUX track on the currently selected track first, Control-Tab will instead toggle your focus over to the aux track for the send you just adjusted the level for. So you are able to add a new send to a track, adjust the send level to a reasonable amount, (-15 is a good place to start for reverbs and delays for example), then when you press Control-TAB you will have the AUX track that was created for the send you just added in focus now. So you can use Logic Magician to add a plug in to the track and etc. Press Control-tab when you are done manipulating the plug in settings to Return focus to the originally selected track. So if you ever want to adjust an Aux track instead of your stereo output or TrackStack, just adjust the send level for an Aux track so that Control-Tab will toggle you between the Original track and Aux track instead.
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[Mert Ozer]

Hey, quick question about reverb sends in Logic. On my reverb aux track, I’ve got the send level at 0 dB, and I’ve been controlling how much reverb I get using the plugin’s wet parameter, which is currently set to 8%, with the dry at 0%. I’m wondering if that’s a good approach, or if I should set the wet to 100% and adjust the reverb level using the send instead.

Mert Ozer

On Oct 26, 2025, at 6:26 AM, TheOreoMonster <theoreo...@logic.band> wrote:

•  Change send value, Page Up/Page Down (FN Up/Down arrows on Laptops or keyboards without number pads).

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[Laid Civic]

Hey Mert

It’s a bit pointless approach. You could put reverb directly on a track and adjust wet level accordingly, way simpler. However, if you are gonna use sends, which is recommended way with reverbs anyway, then you keep reverb at 100%, and adjust send knob. In this case, send knob is kinda like wet knob in reverb plug-in, but the benefit is very obvious, you can have only one reverb plug-in on bus and send infinite amount of tracks to it, saves time, saves processing power.

Same idea is with delays, parallel compressors, parallel saturation or any kind of parallel processing.

Hope it’s clear.

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[MERT ÖZER]

Yup, it is! I’m already using sends for my reverb since I also use sidechain compression on the reverb. My question was whether it makes any difference to use the send knob versus the wet parameter to adjust how much reverb we want. In theory, I could still set the plugin’s wet level however I wanted and have it send to infinite tracks. The dry parameter is at 0 either way. I know the recommended approach is using the send knob, but I also want to understand 

why we do it that way—that’s why I’m still asking :)

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[Daniel Contreras]

Personally, I think it’s a matter of preference. I always set my send level to zero, set my wet level to 100 in the plug-in, and adjust the volume of the aux channel. Not sure who else does it like that lol but that’s the way I approach it. 

Daniel Contreras 

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[Laid Civic]

Technically speaking, in your example send level and wet level are identical, so short answer to your question is, it doesn’t matter.

However, if you are sending multiple tracks to that reverb, it would matter, as each track probably won’t need same amount of reverb, so in that case you’d want to keep reverb wet level on 100% and send different amounts from each track.

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[Laid Civic]

Hey Daniel

I guess nobody lol.

The limitation of your approach is that it will work for one track only, at least generally speaking.

If you have a reverb aux, you send one track to it, you set send level to 0 and you decrease volume of aux, it’s fine. But if you want to send other tracks to the same aux, and each of them needs different amount of reverb like it’s usually the case, then you’re stuck, as now you don’t have any way of doing it. If you’d decrease or increase aux volume again it would affect the first track. 

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