3.4 Channel Splitting or Multiple Tracks?
Many of the examples that follow will involve taking an audio signal (such as a recorded vocal track), splitting it into multiple channels or several tracks, treating the different tracks or channels in different ways, then at some stage joining….
Kind: concept (reamix-section) Chapter: 3 Spatial Mixing Source: ReaMix (October 2009)
Many of the examples that follow will involve taking an audio signal (such as a recorded vocal track), splitting it into multiple channels or several tracks, treating the different tracks or channels in different ways, then at some stage joining them up again. For the most part, in these examples, you could achieve similar results using whichever of these two methods you prefer (or sometimes a combination of both). When deciding which you prefer, keep the following in mind:
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Using multiple tracks makes it easier for you to adjust the volume and pan settings for each audio stream, as these can each be displayed independently in the mixer and track control panel. However, this does use up a fair amount of screen real estate.
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Using channel splitting saves on screen real estate (as it doesn’t create extra tracks), but adjusting the parameters of the audio streams in your different channels becomes a little more fiddly.