CAKEWALK SONAR - Tutorial 7-Mixing

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Tutorial 7—Mixing
SONAR has an almost unlimited number of tools to help you mix down. You can
automate almost any knob, fader, or button by using any of several methods. You
can even automate the internal settings of some effects—not just the bus controls
but the controls on some individual effects. When your project sounds the way you
want, you can save it and export it in Wave, MP3, Real Audio, or Windows Media
Advanced Streaming format.
Let’s do some more work on
TUTORIAL5.CWB, and explore the following tasks:
• Adding real-time audio effects
• Automating an individual effect’s settings
• Grouping controls
• Automating your mix
• Exporting an MP3 file
Adding Real-time Audio Effects
Let's add some flanging to the first guitar track in TUTORIAL5.CWB:
1. Add the flange effect to a guitar track by right-clicking its Fx field, and
choosing Audio Effects-Cakewalk-FxFlange from the popup menu.
The effect’s dialog box appears.
2. Choose a preset flange setting from the Presets field.
3. Play the project to hear what it sounds like. You can continue to adjust the
effect while the project plays; there is a slight delay before your adjustments
are audible.
Close the dialog box. You can add effects to buses with the same method (right-
click the Fx field in a bus, and choose an effect from the popup menu).
You can delete an effect from an FX field by right-clicking the effect’s name and
choosing Delete from the popup menu. Instead of moving the controls manually,
let’s automate them by drawing an envelope in the Clips pane.