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Using assignable effects chains
This feature is available only in the full version of Vegas software.
Assignable effects allow you to send various levels of multiple tracks to a single audio effect chain. Like busses, these controls reside in the Mixer window and support
Click the Insert Assignable FX button (
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Assignable Effects in Mixer Window
Mixer window to add an assignable effects chain to
Number/Name
Automation
your project. For more information, see Adding Audio Effects on page 189.
Number/Name | Number and name of assignable effects. | |
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Automation settings | The controls in the assignable effects | |
| control list can function as trim controls | |
| or automation controls for output level, | |
| panning, and muting. Click the button | |
| and verify Show Automation Controls is | |
| not selected if you want the bus control | |
| to function as a trim control. Adjusting a | |
| trim control affects the entire track. Click | |
| the button and choose Show Automation | |
| Controls to adjust automation settings. | |
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Mute | Prevents the assignable effects chain | |
| from processing the track’s signal. When | |
| Show Automation Controls is selected, | |
| the button is displayed as | , and you |
| can use the button to edit mute | |
| automation on the chain’s bus track. | |
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Solo | Plays only the output of that assignable | |
| effects chain. |
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Assignable FX | Displays the Assignable FX window and | |
| allows you to adjust the | |
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Bus Pan | Drag to adjust the overall panning of the | |
| assignable effects chain. When Show | |
| Automation Controls is selected, the | |
| thumb is displayed as | , and you can |
| use the slider to edit pan automation on | |
| the chain’s bus track. |
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Bus assignment | Allows to you assign the assignable | |
| effects chain to a bus. |
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Input Fader | Adjusts the input volume. |
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Output Fader | Adjusts the output volume. When Show | |
| Automation Controls is selected, the | |
| thumb is displayed as , and you can use | |
| the fader to edit volume automation on | |
| the chain’s bus track. |
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Meter | Displays the incoming and outgoing signal | |
| level to the assignable effects chain. | |
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Lock/Unlock Fader | Locks the faders so the left and right | |
Channels | channels of stereo files always move | |
| together. Click again to unlock the faders. | |
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Mute Pan slidersettings
Solo
Bus assignment
Assignable FX
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Meter |
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Assignable effects | Assignable effects showing | |||
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CHP. 9 | USING THE MIXER |