User Guide

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USING THE MIXER CHP. 8
Deleting busses from a project
You can remove busses from your project at any time. When you remove a bus from a project, any tracks
assigned to it are reassigned to the Master bus.
Deleting a bus
Right-click the bus to be deleted in the Mixer window and choose Delete from the shortcut menu.
Deleting 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 to appear in the Mixer window.
3. Click OK. All tracks assigned to a deleted bus are reassigned to the Master bus in the Mixer window.
Routing busses to hardware
You can assign busses to use specific hardware for output. When you installed Vegas, it automatically
detected the hardware available for output on your computer. For more information, see Audio tab on page 273.
1. From the Options menu, choose Preferences and click the Audio device tab.
2. From the Audio device type drop-down list, choose Windows Classic Wave Driver.
Note: If you select Microsoft Sound Mapper in the Audio
device type
drop-down list on the Audio tab, you will not be
able to assign the bus to a different device.
3. Click OK to close the Preferences dialog.
4. In the Mixer window, click the Playback Device button ( ) on the bus you want to route.
5. Choose a hardware device from the menu.
Note: You can map multiple busses to a single sound card.
Working with busses
Busses in the Mixer window are fully independent and may be adjusted separately. You can adjust the bus
volume, change the bus meter resolution, and adjust the bus fader to eliminate clipping.
Adjusting bus volume
You can adjust a bus’s volume during project playback by dragging the fader. The fader on a stereo bus is split
so that you can adjust the levels of the two stereo channels independently.
The faders are locked (ganged) so that the left and right channels of stereo files move together. Click the
Lock/Unlock Fader Channels button ( ) to unlock or lock the faders. You can also press while dragging a
fader to temporarily override a fader’s locked or unlocked state.
Tip: Double-click a fader to reset it to 0.0 dB. If you have set
each channel independently, double-click either the left or
right fader to have the other fader match the other’s volume
setting.
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