PreSonus Notion 6 - Notation Software (Boxed) - Manual (Page 85)

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By default, all sounds from all instruments directly route to the Master channel strip . If you send to
a bus, then some audio signals also route to bus channel strips (and then join up with the direct
signals at the Master channel strip) . Signals from the Master channel strip then route to your sound
card to analog outputs (such as line out and headphone connectors) on your computer .
With the Output button (located at the bottom of each channel strip), other options
become possible . You can go to certain instruments and have these signals:
8 Route entirely to one or more bus channel strips for processing . Then signals can either go to:
> The Master channel strip, or
> Out to external equipment .
8 Or, route immediately from instrument channel strips directly out to external equipment .
Also, you can use the Output button at the bottom of the Master channel strip
to route Notion audio out from there to external equipment .
While there are many creative uses of this button, this topic illustrates its use with two examples: play effect
only and control volume and pan for groups of instruments . The next topic discusses how you can use
the Out button to send instruments through certain digital audio channels to external equipment .
Access the Output Button Options
Clicking the Output button displays a menu of options where you designate where the instrument’s sounds will go .
8 Master is the default setting: the instrument’s sounds route to the Master channel
strip and will also route to one or more buses, if you use them .
8 Sends Only switches off routing sounds directly to the Master and routes all the instrument’s
sounds to one or more bus channel strips . From there you can decide whether to send the
processed sounds on to the Master (the default) or (using the Output button on the Bus
channel strip): directly out over digital audio channels to external equipment .
8 The various channel options direct the instrument’s sounds directly out a certain stereo
channel (for routing to audio card) .
Play Effect Only
With the Output button, you have the option to completely stop sending an instrument’s sound directly to the
Master channel strip . This means the only sounds you hear in the Master’s final output from this instrument are
sounds that have been through the bus channel strip only (no direct “pure” sounds route to the Master) . This can
produce heightened or exaggerated results (depending on your settings) when used with one or more VST effects .
1 . Set up a bus channel strip with the VST effects, pan, and other settings you want .
» NOTE: do not change the Output button default selection of Master on buses themselves . You only need to
change this button on individual instruments in steps 3-4 .
2 . Find the channel strip for an instrument you need to send to this bus .
3 . Click the Output button at the bottom of the instrument’s channel strip .
» A menu appears . The default selection is Master .
5 . Select Sends Only .
6 . Enter a number in the appropriate
bus’s circle . Since this adjusts in real time, you have the option of playing your
score while adjusting this number .
Repeat steps 2-5 for the remaining instruments you want to have the same sound .
» Your changes are saved the next time you save the file .
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