User Manual

5.10
To set a number in any circle, complete one of the following:
8 Click the circle once then drag your mouse upward to increase a number or downward to decrease it. (You can also
use a left/right motion, if you prefer). Then click anywhere in the mixer away from the circle to keep the number.
8 If you prefer to type in a number, click a circle once. A temporary text box opens with the current number displayed.
Replace the current number with a new value between 1 and 100. Decimals 1 through 9 are supported. Then click
anywhere in the Mixer away from the box to keep this number.
A ring travels around the circle (clockwise) in proportion to the percentage you Enter. This gives
you a quick graphical representation of the relative levels you Enter. Also, a circle still at zero has
a gray background; a circle with any number above zero has an orange background.
Example
With default settings, sounds from each instrument panel end up at the Master channel strip. When you use a send, you
split the sound between this path and at least one bus. Let’s say you wanted the strings (and only the strings) to have an
echo eect (say, for a suspenseful build-up in a stage production or soundtrack). First, you nd a VST with an echo eect
you like. Since you are going to put this eect on more than one instrument, you insert this VST onto a bus (let’s say Bus A).
Then you go to the channel strip for each string instrument and set the Send at Bus A to around 75. Now the straight
sounds of the strings arrive directly to the Master – along with an echo from Bus A. By the time you hear the signals out
of your sound card, it sounds like a single sound, but actually there are two signals coming together. By moving the fader
on Bus A you are actually adjusting how much the echo complements (or overpowers!) the direct sound of the strings.
Another Example
Let’s say you wanted the horn section (but only the horns) to sound like they are coming out of a 1940s car radio. One
way to do this is to dramatically reduce the frequency spread with an equalizer VST. Since you are going to put this eect
on multiple instruments, you insert this VST onto a bus. And then you set the Sends to this bus on all the horn channel
strips to a high number. But in this case you hear that the straight sounds coming from the instrument channel strips
contribute frequencies that actually spoil the “early radio” eect. In this example, you would like to hear how the horns
sound when they are heard through the VST only. This is easily done with the Output button, detailed in the next topic.