User Guide

CHP. 7 ADDING AUDIO EFFECTS

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Adding Audio

Effects

You can use audio effects, or plug-ins, to improve the quality of the audio in a production or to create special

artistic effects. In addition to the DirectX plug-in effects included with Vegas, you can also use other Sonic

Foundry plug-ins and third-party plug-ins.

Using audio effects

There are three ways to use audio plug-ins in Vegas: track effects, bus effects, and assignable effects. You can

access these plug-ins by clicking the

Track FX, Bus FX or Assignable FX buttons ( ). The combination of these

various methods of applying audio effects is important to the final mix of a project. For more information, see

Audio signal flow on page 34.

• Track effects are applied to all events in a single track.

• Bus effects are applied to a bus (including the Master bus). When you add plug-ins to a bus, the tracks

that are assigned to the bus are processed by the plug-in(s). Since multiple tracks can be assigned to a

single bus, using bus-level audio effects is an efficient method of applying carefully customized chains of

audio effects to multiple tracks. If plug-ins are assigned at the track level, the track’s signal flows through

the track’s plug-in(s) before the bus plug-ins. For more information, see Using busses on page 137.

• Assignable effects allow you to send various levels of multiple tracks to a single effect chain. Like busses,

these controls reside in the Mixer window and support plug-in chains. In addition, assignable effects

outputs can be routed to busses. Click the

Insert Assignable FX button ( ) in the Mixer window to add an

assignable effect chain to your project. For more information, see Using assignable effects chains on page 140.

Track FX Bus FX Assignable FX