Submixes – Apple Soundtrack Pro 3 User Manual
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For example, you could route every dialogue track for a particular actor to a bus with the
actor’s name. You could adjust the volume of all the actor’s dialogue using the bus volume
fader and add an EQ effect that brings out the actor’s voice in the mix. You could then
route that audio bus to a particular submix. The main reason to apply effects this way
(rather than directly on the track) is so you can control the amount and characteristics of
the effect on multiple tracks using one set of controls.
For more information about using busses and sends, see
Submixes
Submixes let you combine the audio from different tracks and busses and route the audio
to physical outputs. If you are using external audio hardware that supports multiple
physical outputs, you can add submixes to a project and choose the physical output to
which each submix routes its audio. For more information about signal routing in
Soundtrack Pro, see
Basic Signal Routing in Soundtrack Pro
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For example, you could route the audio from the dialogue tracks for each actor to a
submix called “Dialogue” and then route all of the dialogue from that submix to a single
output jack. You could route all music tracks to another submix and all effects tracks to
a third submix. Then you could adjust the volume or add effects separately to each submix.
For a final stereo mix, you could route all submixes to the same pair of physical output
channels (channels 1 and 2, for example), or to separate outputs. In the case of a surround
mix, you could route all submixes to channels 1–6. For a detailed explanation of this
example, see
Example: Mixing a Project with Submixes
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Chapter 5
Working with Multitrack Projects