User Manual

Creating Buses
Choosing Fairlight > Bus Format opens the Bus Format window, which lets you create as many
buses as you need (up to the limitations of your system) to organize the tracks and channels of
your program.
The Bus Format window lets you add buses to the mixer
Four buttons at the top of the window let you create any type of bus Fairlight supports. Creating
a new bus, whether it’s a Main, Sub, Aux, or Multi Track, adds the new bus to the list that
appears below.
The Bus list lets you rename the bus, choose the format of each bus (a drop-down menu
appears in the Format column of each entry of the list), and color-code each bus (a Color
drop-down lets you choose that bus’s color). Simply click any item on the Bus list to select it,
and choose different options from the Format and Color drop-down menus, or click on the User
Name of any bus to select it, and type a custom name.
At the bottom of the list are two additional buttons that let you Duplicate or Remove selected
Buses. When you’re done modifying the available buses, you can click OK to accept the change
and close the Bus Format window, Cancel to close the window (although any buses you’ve
made remain in place), or Bus Assign to open the Bus Assign window.
NOTE: Text at the upper left-hand corner of the window lets you know how many
buses you’re using out of how many your workstation will support.
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