Slightly disheartened to dig up pre-covid threads when looking into this issue :-/ here, here, and also for nuendo.
When I change audio interface/audio system, my External Effects connections keep getting broken. I have 6 stereo effects with stereo sends and returns, which I have saved as 6 favourites that have to be manually reset, every time. Instead of jumping into a project, I lose time and motivation to troubleshooting.
Further, part of the problem was describe here in 2017 - external effects seemingly cannot share the same inputs as standard input channels. I use these external effects as sends, but I also set up a track to record their output.
In Audio Connections, is there not a global “all ins/outs/connections” preset somewhere?
Why is inputs a preset for all inputs (I have about 40 inputs), but externals effects are only individual favourites?
Can’t it be possible that inputs remain linked if being used as inputs and for external effects?
Am I missing something? Or can something be done to remedy this?