Apple Soundtrack Pro 3 - Manual (Page 305)

Soundtrack Pro gives you the tools to create sophisticated audio mixes for your projects.
When you have added audio clips to your project and placed them in the Timeline, you
mix the project. Mixing is where you balance different elements, such as dialogue, music,
and sound effects, bring focus to key moments and events in the project, and create a
sense of perspective by placing sounds in space. When you finish mixing, you have one
or more final mixes that you can export.
Soundtrack Pro offers you professional mixing capabilities, including the abilities to create
busses and submixes and to send audio to multiple physical outputs. The Mixer provides
a visual representation of your project in a virtual mixing console, with channel strips
where you control different aspects of the sound. You can adjust volume and pan, mute
and solo tracks, choose track submixes, add effects, and observe levels as the project
plays. This chapter covers basic mixing. For information about mixing surround sound,
see
Mixing Surround Sound .
This chapter covers the following:
• Steps in Mixing (p. 306)
• Structuring an Audio Post-Production Project (p. 306)
• Using the Mixer (p. 316)
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