User Manual

Introduction to Mixing
This chapter describes the use of the Mixer to adjust the levels and fine-tune the audio of each
track in the timeline. It’s focused on the function of the channel strip controls, with the
followingexceptions:
 For more information about busing, see Chapter 150, “Setting Up Tracks, Buses,
and Patching.”
 For more information about recording audio, see Chapter 152, “Recording.”
 For more information about recording automation, see Chapter 157,
“Automation Recording.”
The Mixer
The Audio Mixer provides a set of graphical controls you can use to assign track channels to
output channels, adjust EQ and dynamics, set levels and record automation, pan stereo and
surround audio, and mute and solo tracks. At its most basic, each audio track in your timeline
corresponds to an individual channel strip in the Mixer, and by default there’s a single Main bus
labeled M1 that combines all these tracks into an overall mix.
The Audio Mixer, with channel strips corresponding
to the tracks in the Timeline
Tracks and Buses
Once you start creating buses, the Audio Mixer exposes two sets of channel strips.
The left-most set of channel strips correspond to the audio tracks in the Timeline, while the
right-most set of channel strips expose sets of controls for each Main, Sub (submix), and
Aux (auxiliary) bus that you’ve created.
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