Mixing Overview

Mixing refers to any actions made inside the mixer, such as routing signals around, controlling the fader level of various channels and setting their stereo balance.

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The mixer

Mixer

The mixer contains all of the channels in the project corresponding to visible tracks. There is some extra space reserved for drag-and-dropping plugins or files.

Most of the activities that can be performed in the mixer are also available in the Track inspector.

Channels

A channel is part of a track, if the track type has a channel.

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Channel for an instrument track

Channels contain a fader, controls such as mute and solo, a meter, a direct out selector and a strip of insert plugins. These are covered in Track Inspector.

Master Channel

The master channel, a special channel used to route audio to the output audio device, is pinned on the right side of the mixer.

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The master channel

Changing the Track Name

The name of the track the channel corresponds to can be changed by double clicking the name at the top of the channel.

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Changing the track name from the channel view