PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 83)

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The best way to fine-tune the audio for any subset of the instruments in your score is to use
buses . There are many creative ways to use buses, such as controlling the volume of any
number of instruments you select or placing particular effects on some instruments .
The Notion Mixer console supplies eight separate stereo buses (labeled A through H) .
Access the Bus Channel Strips
If the bus channel strips are not currently visible, click the Bus button located in the upper right of the Mixer window .
Conversely, you can click this button to hide the buses so you can view more instrument channel strips at a time .
Control Gain, Pan, and Effects for Any Subset of Instruments
Familiar fader, panning, solo/mute, and Insert buttons appear and operate the same way as
they do on individual instrument channel strips: the difference is now your
settings affect only the instrument sounds you send to a bus .
8 You reduce computer memory demands the more you “share” the same effect across as many
instruments as possible . For that reason, it is highly efficient to assign an effect to an Insert button
on a bus and send any number of instruments to that bus .
8 If pan or gain settings affect a group of instruments equally, it’s quicker to send these instruments to
a bus and control them with one control than going to each instrument and resetting these controls
individually .
The Send Controls on Instruments
The way you send instrument sounds to buses is by your setting of the
Sends controls on individual instrument channel strips .
Example of Sends near the middle of an instrument channel strip.
You’ll notice there are no on/off switches to the buses: every instrument has all eight
sends always enabled! However, the default setting for each bus send is zero (the same
effect as an “off” condition) . If you display a number (up to 100) in a circle in the right-
hand column, you send that approximate percentage of the audio signal to the pertinent
bus – in addition to the signal going straight to the Master channel strip .
Buses