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26—Automix

This chapter describes how to perform automated mixing on the VS-2480 using its

Automix feature. Automix allows you to create and perfect automated mixes.

Mixing is a challenging art, a delicate balance of attention to detail and artistic vision.

It’s both a creative and clerical activity in which your project is turned into a ﬁnal work

that can be heard by other people. It’s the time when everything you’ve been meaning

to tend to, and every enhancement you’ve been planning, has to be addressed. As such,

there’s a lot to get right. Mixing is really the project’s ﬁnal, ultimate performance.

Automix allows you to build up your mix, element by element, by recording each

adjustment and perfectly playing it back. This lets you take your time, enjoying the

process of crafting your project’s ﬁnal sound. Since Automix remembers what you do,

you can work on a mix over a period of time—at the start of each mixing session, your

project mix is exactly as you left it and ready to be worked on some more.

When you think you may be done with a mix, and are listening to it on different

systems and playing it for friends and associates, Automix removes the worry that if

you ﬁnd something wrong in the mix you’ll have to start all over. With Automix, you

can ﬁx any individual problems while preserving the rest of the mix.

While most people use Automix during mixdown, you can also use it during recording,

since you can automate input channel parameters. If you’re recording something

repeatable that requires changes during the course of the project—perhaps you’re

recording synchronized sequencer tracks—you can automate those moves and play

them back as you’re recording your tracks.

Automix captures and remembers changes made to a parameter’s value over the

course of a project, and remembers where each change occurs. What Automix records

is Automix data, not audio data, and it’s saved with the project. Automix records on its

own tracks in its own area of the VS-2480’s memory. It doesn’t use any of your project’s

tracks. This means two important things:

• Using Automix doesn’t reduce the number of available tracks in a project.

• Automix data is independent of audio data—you can alter either one without

affecting the other.

Because Automix data and audio data are separate, when you move audio to a new

location, you’ll have to also remember to move the corresponding Automix data.

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