Mixing Audio

mjroddy wrote on 3/31/2005, 9:46 PM
Ok, doggonit.
I thought I could figure this out on my own, but the only solution I came up with is destructive.
I have three SFX that basically make up one sound. They are each on their own track and I have them mixed, more or less, the way I like them to be.
But visually, the effect should start Left, drift Right and then Center. Is there a way to do this, short of panning each individual track. This isn't so much a problem since it's only 3 tracks, but if I wanted to do that to several tracks, I can see making mistakes, mising the cue or other potential problems.
I tried to mix them onto a bus, but then I couldn't figure how to dynamically (keyframe) that bus. The only solution I thought really worked would be to export that part of my audio to Sound Forge and then do the panning there.
Any better suggestions?
Thank you.

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Spot|DSE wrote on 3/31/2005, 9:57 PM
to dynamically keyframe/put points on a volume or pan for a bus:
Press the B key. The audio Bus opens up.
Scroll to the bus you want to affect.
Right click to insert envelopes, do your panning/volumes there.
Assign the 3 tracks to this bus.
You'll be done.
mjroddy wrote on 3/31/2005, 10:07 PM
Ok... Thank you!
I'm almost there...
But... why is it when I click where it says Bus A on the audio track and change that to Bus B, all of my audio tracks change to Bus B? I only want three tracks to head to B.
Chienworks wrote on 4/1/2005, 1:52 AM
You may have all of your tracks selected. Ctrl-Shift-A will unselect everything. Then you should be able to individually switch busses.
mjroddy wrote on 4/1/2005, 9:49 AM
I was hoping that was it, but no...
I click on one track, do the Ctrl-Shift-A thing and it deselects the track I'm on. I click once on it again and change the bus to B. All audio tracks change to B.
I'll try from my copy of Vegas at Work. Maybe something will be different there.
Thanks for the thought. Any others? Like, I'm switching busses incorrectly - somehow?