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Chapter 9 Mixing the Project
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Key Concepts
Mixer:  Interface area where you mix your project.
Audio channel strips:  Control the playback and recording of audio signals on audio
tracks.
Instrument channel strips:  Allow you to use and control software instruments.
Software instrument plug-ins are inserted into the channel strip’s Instrument slot.
Aux channel strips:  Used to set up send returns, where a channel strip signal is routed
to an aux channel strip for eects processing. Aux channel strips are also used for
grouping purposes and for distributing a signal to multiple destinations via sends.
Output channel strips:  Represent the physical audio outputs of your audio interface.
Master channel strip:  A global level control for all output channel strips.
Mixer View buttons:  Allow you to switch the Mixer between the Single, Arrange, and
All views, limiting the Mixer view to channel strips required for the task at hand.
Mixer Filter buttons:  Allow you to to lter the display of specic channel strip types.
Group slot:  Used to control a channel strip’s group assignment.
Group Settings window:  Where you dene the behavior of each group.
Volume fader:  Used to set a channel strip’s playback or monitoring volume.
Pan control:  Used to control the position of the signal in the stereo image.
Send slot:  Used to route a channel strip’s signal to an aux channel strip.
Output slot:  Used to set the channel strip’s output path.
Multi-Output Instrument:  Allows you to isolate a sound and route it to its own aux
channel strip where it can be independently mixed and processed.