Yamaha MW8cx Owner's Manual page 14

Mixer Basics
Quick Guide
4
Drag the pan controls on the top of the
channel strips left and right to set the ste-
reo position of each track.
Pan Effectively
"Panning" creates the illusion of stereo space by changing
the relative levels of each track's signal sent to the left and
right speakers. If a signal is sent only to the left speaker, the
sound will appear to come from the far left side of the stereo
sound field. If it sent with equal level to both left and right
speakers our ears tell us the sound is located in the center of
the stage. Judicious panning can also help to create cleaner-
sounding mixes by spreading the instruments out across the
sound stage so that they don't "get in each other's way."
There are no hard and fast rules, but the bass and kick drum
are usually placed in the center of the mix, as is the lead
instrument or vocal. Other instruments should be evenly bal-
anced throughout the sound stage in a well-balanced man-
ner.
5
At this point you can begin to use EQ to
refine your mix, and add effects.
As an example let's try adding reverb. Click the [Edit]
button ( ) on the left side of the channel strip to
open the VST audio channel settings window. Click
Insert 1 and select Earlier VST Plug-ins → Reverb →
RoomWorks SE.
For further details refer to the pdf manual pro-
NOTE
vided with the Cubase AI4 software.
It's a good idea to lower the channel fader a
bit before adding an effect, since the effect
can cause an increase in the overall channel
CAUTION
level.
14
MW8CX/MW10C Owner's Manual
6
When the final mix adjustments have
been made, go to the [File] menu and
select [Export] → [Audio Mixdown].
7
Enter a file name and select a destina-
tion for the file as well as a file type.
If you intend to use the file to create an audio CD, select
the WAV file type (AIFF on Macintosh OS X), Stereo
Out (stereo), 16 bit, and 44.1 kHz.
8
Click [Export].
Progress of the mixdown operation will be shown in a
progress window. When the progress window closes the
mixdown is complete.
Wave files created by mixdown can be directly
NOTE
played back using the Windows Media Player,
or iTunes on a Macintosh computer.