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NickM wrote on 12/31/2002, 4:19 PM
Same here. I'd like to know what they do, too. I used to take a bus to school, but I think that's something different...
Nick
BillyBoy wrote on 12/31/2002, 5:26 PM
Unless you want to go pretty far out in left field and want more control of your audio tracks, I'm not one of those, so I don't worry about it, extra audio busses aren't something too many will need. The idea is you can take more control over audio tracks and have each track or groups of track controlled by a 'bus' up to 25 busses. They appear along side the Master Bus that is already there by default if you elect to view it. Wow, just imagine up to another 25 mixers on your desktop...

To start click on the insert bus button (the last icon at the top of the mixer window)and well, play with it. The benefit is you get multiple faders and visual clues that would show peaking for any audio track controlled by the bus you add. A bigger advanage would be to control additional hardware. Because you can also asign audio plug-ins to a bus, I suspose you can get some interesting effects. Another topic probably better suited to the audio forum.
Tyler.Durden wrote on 12/31/2002, 6:09 PM
Hi all,

Busses permit you to gang together multiple audio tracks under a single fader... for example if you wanted two (or more) tracks of background audio/foley to always be set at the same level relative to each other, you could gang them together on a bus, and set the one fader in your final mix. They can also share any audio FX you drop on the fader.

In a music-mix, you might put all the backup vocalists on bus, horn section on another...?


That's the basic idea, I think...


HTH, MPH
JohnnyRoy wrote on 1/1/2003, 8:32 AM
> That's the basic idea, I think...

Yep, that's the idea; grouping faders and routing to FX. Think of a bus as a big "Y" jack to plug multiple things into one. That's primarily what they are used for on a hardware multi-track mixing console. A physical hardware FX device, like a reverb, has only one input and output. How do you plug multiple things into it? You would attach it to a hardware bus, then route the tracks you want reverb on to that bus.

It still holds true in for the virtual bus in Vegas. Let's say you want to apply an effect like reverb or echo to a number of audio tracks; just route them to a bus and apply the FX to the bus. Now you only have to change the FX in one place to affect all the tracks. This is especially convenient when you’re tweaking the sound to get it just right. You can hear the change of the FX on all the tracks as you change it. As Marty said, you'll also have a group fader for the tracks you route to a bus.

~jr