I have a feature request for Serato Studio which would be beneficial to anyone & everyone who uses it now or will use the software in the future. It's a simple but a much needed one.

Making your own customizable Mix Buses & Groups for plugin instruments. Most DAWs have these features because it makes it easy to add an effect to a handful of virtual instruments at once. Say for instance every synth needs a bit of reverb but the rest of the plugins in your mix do not. Instead of having to open up an instance of your reverb plugin individually on every channel, you could throw a reverb on your designated Synth Mix Bus.

An example on how this could be implemented is in a similar way to the channel strip in your mixer view, how all the sample chops / "Pads" each have their own channel strip that can be extended from the "main" sample channel. This is the closest thing we have to a mix bus right now, applying effects there to all the sample "Pads" at one time if you put it on the "main" sample channel. The next closest thing we have is the "Scenes" & Master channels in the mixer, where you can apply an effect plugin to a bunch of different plugins at one time.

This is great but if this type of setup could be turned into custom mix buses & groups I think we'd have a winner on our hands here guys! Sometimes you need to apply a bit of "glue" compression to specific collections of VSTs but not all of them at once. It would be SUPER helpful to have the ability to make our own mix bus channels in the mixer for these sorts of purposes. It could also help save CPU for people using CPU intensive plugins on a bunch of different VSTs.

In the title I say Groups separately from Mix Buses because though they are a very similar idea, groups would ideally allow you to play multiple VSTs within the same group at the same time (for layering sounds), & also let you control the volume for multiple virtual instruments all from one fader. Groups would be similar to custom Mix Buses in that you could choose which VSTs to include in the Bus or Group, & ideally be able to name the Groups & Buses you make. It would also be helpful to be able to add samples & VSTs both together into a single Mix Bus or Group as well.

I really think being able to make our own Mix Buses & Groups would take Serato Studio to the next level. If people could do all of their mixing & mastering in the program it would make it that much better for veterans & newcomers alike.