User Manual

5.9
The best way to ne-tune the audio for any subset of the instruments in your score is to use
buses. There are many creative ways to use buses, such as controlling the volume of any
number of instruments you select or placing particular eects on some instruments.
The Notion Mixer console supplies eight separate stereo buses (labeled A through H).
Access the Bus Channel Strips
If the bus channel strips are not currently visible, click the Bus button located in the upper right of the Mixer window.
Conversely, you can click this button to hide the buses so you can view more instrument channel strips at a time.
Control Gain, Pan, and Eects for Any Subset of Instruments
Familiar fader, panning, solo/mute, and Insert buttons appear and operate the same way as
they do on individual instrument channel strips: the dierence is now your
settings aect only the instrument sounds you send to a bus.
8 You reduce computer memory demands the more you “share” the same eect across as many
instruments as possible. For that reason, it is highly ecient to assign an eect to an Insert button
on a bus and send any number of instruments to that bus.
8 If pan or gain settings aect a group of instruments equally, it’s quicker to send these instruments to
a bus and control them with one control than going to each instrument and resetting these controls
individually.
The Send Controls on Instruments
The way you send instrument sounds to buses is by your setting of the
Sends controls on individual instrument channel strips.
Example of Sends near the middle of an instrument channel strip.
You’ll notice there are no on/o switches to the buses: every instrument has all eight
sends always enabled! However, the default setting for each bus send is zero (the same
eect as an “o” condition). If you display a number (up to 100) in a circle in the right-
hand column, you send that approximate percentage of the audio signal to the pertinent
bus – in addition to the signal going straight to the Master channel strip.
Buses