Mixer strip controls¶
Open the mixer with the toolbar Mixer button (or Tab). Each track has a strip; strip 0 is the master. Buses and groups appear as their own strips.
On the strip¶
| Control | What it does |
|---|---|
| Name | The strip's name (a track strip shows the track's name + colour). Click to select it (Shift/Ctrl-click extends) |
| Routing cue | Under the name: GROUP (fed by outputs), RETURN (fed by sends), BUS, or → target |
| Fader | Level, 0–1 (vertical) |
| Pan | −1…+1 (horizontal) |
| M / S | Mute / solo |
| Meter | Stereo peak meter with a clip LED — click the LED to reset it |
| FX | Add and edit effects (menu below) |
The FX menu¶
The FX button opens:
- Add effect — a built-in (Gain, Filter, Delay, Reverb, Limiter, Bitcrusher, Compressor, EQ, Waveshaper, Stereo Widener, Tremolo, Chorus, Flanger, Phaser, Auto-pan, Noise Gate, Auto-wah, Ring Mod, and the Scope / Spectrum / Vectorscope analyzers).
- Add plugin — a scanned VST3/LV2 effect.
- Edit: ⟨effect⟩ — per existing effect; the bottom editor shows its knobs plus Bypass, Remove, and Plugin UI.
Recipe: Add insert effects and balance a mix.
Right-click a fader/pan/knob — the parameter menu¶
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| Automate at playhead | Drop an automation keyframe (current value @ playhead) |
| Automation curve ▸ | Linear / Ease in / Ease out |
| Stepped automation | Hold values instead of interpolating |
| Clear automation | Remove this parameter's lane |
| Add LFO… | Modulate the parameter with an LFO (rate, depth, shape, sync…) |
| MIDI Learn / Remove mapping | Bind or unbind a hardware knob / CC |
Recipe: Automate a parameter.
Right-click a strip name — routing and groups¶
| Item | What it does |
|---|---|
| New bus… | Create a bus (a submix / send destination) |
| Send to ⟨bus⟩ ▸ | Aux send — Off / 25 / 50 / 75 / 100 %, Pre- or Post-fader |
| Output ▸ | Route the whole strip to Master or a later bus (a submix) |
| Group N selected strips (Ctrl+G) | Group the selection into a bus |
| Ungroup (Ctrl+Shift+G) | Undo a group |
| Control group items | VCA-lite: New group…, Assign to, Group gain, Mute/Solo group, Delete group |
| Rename strip… | Rename the insert |
| Open device window | Pop the effect chain into a floating window |
Recipe: Route to a bus and set up a shared reverb send. Ctrl+Shift+F folds/unfolds all groups. See Mixer track (bus, send).