Reference Guide

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Signa l flow
Mixing
For more information about using buses and sends, see www.cakewalk.com/Tips/MixMast/
AuxBus.aspx.
Surround buses (SONAR Producer and Studio 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 View) or the Track Inspector (Views > Inspector).
2. If you want to add effects to the bus, right-click in the effects 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 effects 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 the Console view or Track Inspector, select the channel strip that you want to patch through
the bus, then 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.
Add a real-time audio effect to the bus Right-click in the effects bin and select an effect from the list (for
more information, see “Using real-time effects” on page 862)
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 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
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