Master fader?

decrink wrote on 5/2/2001, 12:37 AM

I had to search way back in the forums to discover what I
can't believe??? VA has no master fader?
OK, I'm the guy who came over from n-track (with its big
beutiful master fader and effects track) because my
experiments with VA proved it much more stable. Haven't had
a single crash on my new project versus many on n-track.
So...

1. Does anyone have a work around to get a master fader
happening to easily insert master reverb or limiters on the
final mix?

2. Are we SOL or does Sonic Foundry plan to do anything
about this? It seemed to appear in a bunch of old wish
lists pre VA2.0.

3. Am I just insane and can't find the darn master volume
and effects bus? Maybe its there and hiding from me...and
not anywhere in the manuals?

What say you old pros on this forum for a aging 'beginner'?

Comments

edna6284 wrote on 5/17/2001, 11:44 AM

I'm sure Vegas has got what you're looking for....just hit
Alt-3. The leftmost faders are the masters.

Angels wrote on 5/19/2001, 12:10 PM

As long as you're mixing to one bus, this is true: everything goes to one bus and that bus's controls acts as a master fader.

But if you submix to several busses, there is no MASTER bus to which their outputs feed, even if you assign the outputs of all busses to Bus A: lowering the Bus A faders in no way affects the level of the other busses; the mixing of busses happens after their faders and is not accessible by the user.

SF is aware of this, and it is apparently a common request. A master fader channel would allow overall EQ/finalizing of a mix within Vegas.

S