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CHP. 10 ADDING AUDIO EFFECTS
CHAPTER
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Adding Audio
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 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.
Track FX
Assignable FX
Bus FX
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