Instruction Manual

596 Mixing
Signal Flow
Surround Buses (Producer Edition Only)
Surround buses are useful for mixing and adding effects to create a
surround mix.
To Patch a Track Through a Bus
1. Open the Console view (Views-Console) or the Track view (Views-
Track).
2. If you want to add effects to the bus, right-click in the FX bin of a bus (if
it is not in use already) and choose an effect from the effects popup
menu. (If you are working in the Track view, you may first need to
display the Bus pane by clicking the Show/Hide Bus Pane button
located at the bottom of the Track view.)
The name of the effect you have chosen appears in the bus FX bin.
3. Set the effect’s parameters and close it.
4. Repeat steps 2 and 3 for any additional effects you want to use.
Display the waveform of the audio
that’s flowing through the bus
Enable the bus’s Waveform Preview button
Add a real-time audio effect to the
bus
Right-click in the FX bin and select an effect
from the list (for more information, see Using
Real-Time Effects)
Remove an effect Select the effect and press Delete, or right-
click and choose Delete
Set the output level Adjust the Output volume
Set the output panning Adjust the Pan setting
Set the Send Pan to be the same
as the bus that the bus feeds into
Right-click the Send Pan control and choose
Follow Bus Pan from the popup menu. This
setting is only active when the send has the
same interleave as the bus it feeds into, and is
set to "Post Fader." If enabled, the Send Pan
control no longer affects the output.
Select the output Click the Output button and choose one from
the list
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