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Tutorial 7—Mixing
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Tutorial 7—Mixing
SONAR has an almost unlimited number of tools to help you mix down. You
can automate almost any knob, fader, or button by using any of several
methods. You can even automate the internal settings of some effects—not
just the bus controls, but the controls of some individual effects. When your
project sounds the way you want, you can save it and export it in Wave,
MP3, or Windows Media Advanced Streaming format.
Let’s do some more work on
TUTORIAL5.CWB, and explore the following
tasks:
• Adding real-time audio effects
• Automating an individual effect’s settings
• Grouping controls
• Automating your mix
• Exporting an MP3 file
First Step: Adding Real-time Audio Effects.
Adding Real-time Audio Effects
Let's add some flanging to the first guitar track in TUTORIAL5.CWB:
1. Add the flange effect to a guitar track by right-clicking its FX field, and
choosing Audio Effects-Cakewalk-FxFlange from the popup menu.
You may have to expand the track vertically to see the FX field.
The effect’s dialog box appears.
2. Choose a preset flange setting from the Presets field.
3. Play the project to hear what it sounds like. You can continue to adjust
the effect while the project plays; there is a slight delay before your
adjustments are audible.
Close the dialog box. You can add effects to buses with the same method
(right-click the FX field in a bus, and choose an effect from the popup
menu).
You can delete an effect from an FX field by right-clicking the effect’s name
and choosing Delete from the popup menu. Instead of moving the controls
manually, let’s automate them by drawing an envelope in the Clips pane.