Reference Guide

608
Mixing
Signal Flow
Surround Buses (SONAR Producer 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 pop-up 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.
5. In a track module that you want to patch through the bus, do the following:
• Drag the Bus Send Level control for the bus to the approximate level you want.
• Drag the Bus Send Pan to the approximate setting you want.
• Click the Bus Enable button for the appropriate bus.
6. Repeat step 5 for all the tracks you want to patch through the bus.
7. In the bus, adjust the Input Gain and Output Volume controls to the approximate level you want.
8. In the bus, drag the Input Pan and Output Pan controls to the approximate positions you want.
9. Play your tracks and adjust the Send Level controls, the Pan controls, etc.
To Mute or Solo a Bus
Each bus has a Mute button and a Solo button. These controls act like the Mute and Solo buttons
in a track, but they affect all the signal routed through the bus.
1. Open the Track view or the Console view.
2. Click the Mute or Solo button in the bus you want to mute or solo.
To Display the Audio Waveform of a Bus
• Enable the bus’ Waveform Preview button . This displays the waveform of the audio that is
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 pop-up 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
To do this Do this
Table 126.