User Guide

CHP. 8 USING THE MIXER
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Using busses
A bus is a master control for the audio-signal mix of one or more tracks. You can assign tracks to play back
on a specific bus. For more information, see Assigning audio tracks to busses on page 140.
However, to assign a track to a bus, you must have more than one bus in your project. Each project has a
Master bus as a default, but you may add up to 25 additional busses to the Mixer window. A bus is the last
stage in the signal’s flow through Vegas. For more information, see Audio signal flow on page 34.
You can configure each bus to use a specific hardware output. For more information, see Audio tab on page 273.
Adding busses to a project
You can add up to 25 busses at any time during the development of your project.
Adding a bus
Click the Insert Bus button ( ) on the Mixer window.
Adding multiple busses
1.
Click the Audio Properties button ( ) on the Mixer window. The Project Properties dialog appears with
the
Audio tab displaying.
2. In the Number of stereo busses box, enter the desired number of busses (up to 25) to appear in the Mixer
window.
3. Click OK to add the specified number of busses and close the Project Properties dialog.
The new busses appear in the Mixer window.
Mute
Prevents playback of the bus (pg. 139).
Solo
Plays only the output of that bus (pg. 139).
Fader
Adjusts the bus’s volume on two stereo channels
(pg. 138).
Lock/Unlock
Fader Channels
Locks the faders so the left and right channels of
stereo files always move together. Click again to
unlock the faders.
Name
Name of the bus. Double-click the name to edit it
(pg. 139).
Playback device
Allows you to select the device that the bus uses
for playback.
Bus FX
Displays the Bus FX window and allows you to
adjust the audio effects plug-ins.
Meter
Displays the playback level of the bus (pg. 139).
Mute
Solo
Bus FX
Fader
Meter
Name
Playback device
Lock/Unlock
Fader
Channels
Bus control in Mixer Window
Enter the number
of busses