Mixer
The Mixer is a panel docked into the Edit sub-mode, toggled from the toolbar. It gives every non-video track its own channel strip: fader, pan, mute, solo, and a small effects rack.
Channel strips
One strip per audio track, in timeline order, plus a Master strip pinned at the end. Each strip has:
- A vertical fader and level meter, ranging from -24 dB to +12 dB.
- ST and MO buttons that set the channel to stereo or mono.
- A slider that reads Balance on a stereo channel and Pan on a mono one, with its position beside it (C, L 40, R 100).
- Mute and Solo buttons.
- An effects rack, up to eight slots.
+ Add effect opens a picker with the four built-in types plus any effects a plugin has registered. Click a slot's colored dot to bypass it without removing it. Hovering a slot reveals reorder and remove controls.
Stereo and mono channels
Every channel is either stereo or mono, and the slider does a different job on each. New and existing channels start as stereo.
ST (stereo) keeps left and right apart, and the slider is Balance. Turning it left keeps the left side whole and folds the right side across into it, so nothing disappears at the extremes. Sound that's on both sides adds up as it folds, so a centred voice gets louder as you turn: up to 6 dB louder on the near side at the far end.
MO (mono) sums left and right into one signal after the effects rack, and the slider is Pan. This is the one to use for placing a voice or a mono recording in the stereo field, and the only way to hard-pan cleanly.
The pan law is constant power, so a sound keeps the same loudness as it moves. For a mono file:
| Pan position | Left | Right |
|---|---|---|
| Hard left | 0 dB | Silent |
| Centre | -3 dB | -3 dB |
| Hard right | Silent | 0 dB |
A mono file sits at -3 dB per side on a stereo channel too, so switching its channel from ST to MO doesn't change its level at centre. A stereo file on a mono channel is summed first. Sound that's the same on both sides of the file comes out at its own level on each side at centre, and sound that's on one side only comes out at -6 dB per side.
The preview, the export and agent edits all use this same law. It doesn't depend on which files are on the channel: a mono clip and a stereo clip playing together on one channel behave just as they do alone.
Mono clips panned before this setting existed
A mono file on a channel that was already panned used to follow the mono law in the viewer. That channel opens as stereo, so the same pan is now Balance: the near side is up to 3 dB louder. Click MO to get the old sound back.
The Redub sub-mode has no Mixer and doesn't read this setting.
Built-in effects
| Effect | Parameters |
|---|---|
| EQ | Up to 4 bands, each Low shelf, Peaking, or High shelf, with frequency and gain |
| Compressor | Threshold, Ratio, Attack, Release, Makeup, plus a live Reduction meter |
| Reverb | Mix, Decay |
| Limiter | Threshold, Release, plus the same Reduction meter |
The Limiter is approximate
It's a tuned compressor set up to behave like a limiter, not a true lookahead brickwall. Leave headroom rather than relying on it to catch every peak.
The Compressor and Limiter panels show a Reduction meter while the timeline plays. It tells you how many dB the effect is turning the signal down at that moment, with a thin tick that holds the recent peak. Off means the effect is bypassed.
A plugin effect whose plugin isn't currently installed or enabled shows as inert on the strip rather than disappearing, so you know it's there and why it isn't doing anything.
Master strip
The Master strip is a monitoring trim, nothing more. It's session-only: it resets every time you reopen the project, and it never touches export. A render or a Package always uses the tracks' own levels, so turning the master down to hear something quietly never shows up in the delivered file.