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 Main: These buttons let you assign a track or Sub’s channels to one or more
of the main buses.
 Submix: These buttons let you assign that track’s channels to one or more submix
buses.
 Track name: This mirrors the track name found in the header controls of the Timeline. If
you customize a track’s name in the Timeline, that name appears here.
 dB: Shows you the volume, in decibels, that track is currently set to.
 Arm, Solo, and Mute buttons: Identical to the controls found in the track header
controls of each timeline audio track. Arm lets you enable a track to be recorded onto.
Solo lets you mute all other tracks in order to play that track in isolation (along with any
other Soloed tracks). Mute disables audio playback from that track.
 Fader: Each track’s vertical faders let you adjust the volume of that track, and perform
automation recording.
The Monitoring Panel
The Monitoring panel that runs along the top of the Fairlight page shows all of the audio meters
corresponding to the tracks in the Timeline, as well as the Master Output meter, control room
meters, and a video viewer.
The Monitoring panel
At left, a row of audio meters corresponds to the channel strips of the Mixer, one meter for
every audio track in the Timeline. Each track displays the number of meters that corresponds to
that track’s audio mapping, with mono tracks having a single audio meter, stereo tracks having
two, 5.1 tracks having six, and so on. All of these track and bus meters (with the exception of the
Loudness meters) display both peak and RMS (root mean square) levels against a dB scale.
To the right of the Track meters are the Bus meters, in which all Mains, Subs, and Aux buses
appear, separated by type, and each displaying the number of meters that corresponds to that
track’s audio mapping. This way you can see the sum of all tracks that have been routed to a
particular bus.
The last set of meters, to the right of all others, are the Loudness meters, which consist of two
sets of meters and a numerical readout. These meters let you keep track of the integrated
loudness of the overall mix, which is the standard to which all contemporary mixing
specifications refer when describing the deliverables you’re expected to provide to the client.
Viewer
A small viewer to the left of the Monitoring panel shows the frame of video at the position of the
playhead. The only available control is a button in the lower right-hand corner that lets you
expand the Viewer into its own floating window.
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