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Adding Audio

10 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. Vegas® software supports a variety of DirectX® and VST plug-in effects from both Sony Media Software and third-party vendors.

Using audio effects

There are three ways to use audio plug-ins: 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 39.

Track FX

Bus FX

Assignable FX

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

•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 183.

Note: Multiple busses are available only in the full version of Vegas software.

•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 187.

Note: This feature is available only in the full version of Vegas software.

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ADDING AUDIO EFFECTS