Apple Soundtrack - Manual (Page 86)

86 Chapter 5 Working with Projects
The name of an audio clip appears on the clip in the Timeline. By default, the entire
name appears on the clip if the clip is long enough to display it. You can change the
default behavior in the General pane of the Preferences window, so that long clip
names are truncated from the center. For information on setting preferences, see
“
Setting Soundtrack Preferences ” on page 73.
Tracks, Busses, and Outputs
Soundtrack projects contain tracks, busses, and outputs, which appear as horizontal
rows in the Timeline. Tracks, busses, and outputs are grouped together by category in
the Timeline, with a separator between each category. You can move each type within
its own category, but cannot move one to either of the other categories. Each track,
bus, and output has a header with its icon, name, and a set of controls.
Tracks
Tracks contain the audio you add to your project in the Timeline. Each track has a drag
handle, a name, an icon, and a set of controls that appear in the track’s header in the
Timeline. Track controls include a volume slider, a pan control, an output pop-up menu,
and buttons to mute or solo the track, add effects, and enable the track for recording.
Busses
Using busses, you can create submixes, letting you adjust volume and pan and add
effects to groups of related tracks. You use busses by adding sends to effects chains in
the Effects tab, then routing audio from each send to a bus.
Each bus has a drag handle, a name, an icon, and a set of controls that appear in the
bus’s header in the Timeline. Bus controls are the same as track controls, except that a
bus does not have a Record Enable button (because you can’t record audio to a bus).
The bus controls affect the audio of every track sent to that bus.
You route audio from a track to a bus by adding a send to the track in the Effects tab.
When you add a send, the send is assigned to a bus. You can change the bus to which
a send is assigned, and can adjust the volume and pan for the send.
Sends allow you to route audio from multiple tracks to the same bus to create
submixes. 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 send (route) the bus to a particular output.