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Send tracks are the software audio routing equivalent to the aux-sends found on multitrack sound mixing/sequencing consoles.
In audio recording, a given song is almost always made up of multiple tracks, with each instrument or sound on their own track. Further, each track can be separately adjusted in many ways, such as changing the volume, adding effects, and so on. This can be done with individual hardware components, commonly known as "outside the box," or via software applications known as DAWs , commonly known as "inside the box."
Send tracks are tracks that aren't used to record sound on themselves, but to apply those adjustments to multiple, perhaps even all, tracks the same way. For example: if the drums are not on one track, but are instead spread out across multiple tracks , there is often the desire to treat them all the same in terms of volume, effects, etc. Instead of doing that for each track, you can set up a single send track to apply to all of them.