Create a macro that creates a new track and makes the selected tracks it's children. Optionally give an action an action at the end which asks you to give a name of the new folder track, so you just press a button, type a name and you have a nee 'bus'. e
1. just create a new track on top an name it. 2. to use it as an aux left click and drag from io of a channel to that buss ( you wil see a "jack" symbol). now you have made a send. 3. i you want to make it a group-buss, untick the "master/parent" in the track you are sending from (see 2). so now you have a send, and the original track doesn't go to the master anymore = groupbuss you will have volume control and the order will not be changed
Check out the routing matrix. It's exactly what you want. Reassigning for example all tracks to a new bus track instead of the master output is 2 quick click-drag motions. 1st down the master_out column to unassign and 2nd down the new_track column to reassign. Takes 5 seconds.
This is imo one of the core issues in the work process that hinders a fast and easy workflow. Workaraounds with sends and rcv:s are not a good way around this, and neither is the routing matrix. To address your output from master to a new or existing bus should be such a fundamental and basic feature in any DAW.
and Shift + Alt + drag from one of multiple selected tracks' IO button to another disables the Master/Parent send and creates a send from each selected track to the destination track. (likewise, Shift + drag from one track's IO button to one of multiple other tracks creates a send each from the source track to all selected tracks)
This 'Buss Track' term. I saw it in Sonar. Am I correct in thinking .. People are now looking for Buss Tracks and want to create busses. The Buss is the path the audio/midi takes to get from one strip (track) to another. You don't create busses. They are created for you when you create a send from from one track to another. 'Buss Track' is just a way of creating a track that has a type of 'buss' so the daw can deal with the track in special ways. Like right align in mixer. Somebody recently mentioned tagging regions. Maybe we could tag tracks? Audio, Midi, Buss, Folder etc. Then in in the future maybe deal with types in different ways?
Generally... "Send" refers to a parallel path. "Bus" refers to path in series. Thus, for a busing, you need to disable the master/parent send. Uses are different, not just the nomenclature. The SHIFT + ALT + Drag that Gofer pointed out is pretty swift. The SWS cue bus generator is good when you want to create a new Bus track.