Reverb tails?

[Matt Carlson]

There are only two ways that I know of to get an effect to do what you want. Like you I hope one day to find a “proper” check box or parameter somewhere in Vegas to allow effect tails to continue.

Style 1: Render out your audio clip with enough dead space at the end to keep the effect going to your desired result. Replace it in the project.

Style 2: Create a new track for your clip (or if your audio is just a single source all the way through) and use the track effects plugin chain instead of the single clip chain. Track effects will run until it hits the end of the “loop region” so if you need to have reverb trail off at the end of the project you need to render the entirety as a loop region and extend the region passed the project end for your desired result.

Hopefully someone here knows some command that is a little more quick and elegant.

[John Rofrano]

[Matt Carlson] “Hopefully someone here knows some command that is a little more quick and elegant.”

You can just place a marker at the end of the tail and Vegas will render until it hits the marker (which is now the “new” end of project”)

~jr

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[Vincent Levalois]

Thank you, all great tips. For now I’ve been doing my audio work that requires this kind of thing in Sonar. Perhaps they’ll incorporate some more sophisticated audio editing features in the future.

[Ted Snow]

The way I accomplish this is to create a bus track in the mixer view, send the audio track to that bus…and add the reverb to the bus instead of the audio track. You still need to make sure the audio plays past the end of the audio track, but your reverb will now trail instead of cutting off at the end of the audio event.

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[Vincent Levalois]

I will try this out! Thanks.

[Vincent Levalois]

This can also be accomplished by just applying the reverb to the track itself after editing the last bit you need reverb for and putting on its own track. However your suggestion would work great if you have multiple tracks to send to the bus and need to control it globally.

[Ted Snow]

The main reason I do it this way is because I always add a volume envelope to my tracks and pull the volume to “0” using keyframes during any place there is no audio content. That way I have no noise that could come from the track unless it’s supposed to.

So when I pull down the volume envelope at the end of the audio track, it pulls down the reverb tail along with it. With the reverb on a bus instead of the track itself…the reverb tails off naturally even when the track itself is muted.

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[John Rofrano]

[Ted Snow] “I always add a volume envelope to my tracks and pull the volume to “0” using keyframes during any place there is no audio content. That way I have no noise that could come from the track unless it’s supposed to.”

There is no reason to do this. If there is no audio event, there is no noise. It’s not like analog gear. Vegas will not generate any sound where there are no events present.

~jr

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