In the slower summer months, I decided to dig into Fairlight in the hopes of migrating my audio editing to Resolve from my current DAW. The effort is as much learning Fairlight as it is me appreciating a different workflow, and here I am stuck, as my post's title asks. I'm on 15b6, and I've studied the manual for 14 in addition to the update for 15b6. If I'm against a personal limitation, then I'm only to happy to re-educate myself.
In my current DAW, I can patch any number of tracks to buss tracks, which themselves can be routed to yet additional buss tracks, all capable of having their own FX, pan and volume envelopes, etc. This is massively useful where, for instance, I receive many separate tracks of mono audio clips constituting several pairs of stereo. Thus, I would place 1Clip-left on its track, 1Clip-right on its track, and then route this pair to a stereo buss, mutatis mutandis for all remaining pairs of mono (left-right) clips. I often route several stereo busses, once they are mixed appropriately, to a single stereo buss, which resides on its own buss track, where I can keyframe volume, pan, FX for the entire buss mix. Thus, I have only to adjust one volume envelope. Easy.
I know Fairlight doesn't work this way because, so far as I can tell, there isn't a concept of a dedicated buss track, but I can't figure out how to achieve the same end result. Suppose I have 4 mono clips constituting 2 stereo pairs. I can easily put each pair on its own stereo buss, pan to taste, then route each pair of stereo busses to the main (or another sub-buss). How to control/keyframe volume envelope for any of these busses?
Can someone please tell me what I'm just not getting about Fairlight?
In my current DAW, I can patch any number of tracks to buss tracks, which themselves can be routed to yet additional buss tracks, all capable of having their own FX, pan and volume envelopes, etc. This is massively useful where, for instance, I receive many separate tracks of mono audio clips constituting several pairs of stereo. Thus, I would place 1Clip-left on its track, 1Clip-right on its track, and then route this pair to a stereo buss, mutatis mutandis for all remaining pairs of mono (left-right) clips. I often route several stereo busses, once they are mixed appropriately, to a single stereo buss, which resides on its own buss track, where I can keyframe volume, pan, FX for the entire buss mix. Thus, I have only to adjust one volume envelope. Easy.
I know Fairlight doesn't work this way because, so far as I can tell, there isn't a concept of a dedicated buss track, but I can't figure out how to achieve the same end result. Suppose I have 4 mono clips constituting 2 stereo pairs. I can easily put each pair on its own stereo buss, pan to taste, then route each pair of stereo busses to the main (or another sub-buss). How to control/keyframe volume envelope for any of these busses?
- keyframe volume for each clip, or at least just one, then copy and paste volume attributes to the other clips. This works, but is laborious. Making changes to a keyframe thus requires 4 times effort.
- Create compound clip from the four source clips, then keyframe audio of the compound clip. Yes, this works, but it's a kludge of a workaround, and I'm sure this isn't the correct way.
- 15b6 introduced the ability to bounce mixes to a new track. This is close to what I want, but obviously the bounced mix, by dint of being rendered, won't respect any changes made to its sources.
Can someone please tell me what I'm just not getting about Fairlight?
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