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The Audio Mixer is divided into two sections, one for tracks (at left) and one for buses (at right)
If you have more tracks and buses than can be displayed all at once given the width of your
computer display, then each half of the mixer has independent scroll bars so you can choose
which tracks and which buses you want to see next to one another.
Each audio track’s channel strip has a set of Main and Sub bus buttons that let you assign the
audio output by that channel strip to a Sub (typically used to combine different subsets of tracks
into submixes) or to a Main (typically used to output or render overall mixes). Each Sub and
Aux’s channel strip has a set of Main buttons so that different combinations of Subs can be
assigned to each Main. Main channel strips have no buttons because, from a busing
perspective, they’re the final output.
Main and Submix buttons let you assign tracks to buses, and buses to other buses
Customizing the Onscreen Mixer Controls
The Option menu at the upper right-hand corner of the Mixer provides a number of different
options for customizing the look of the Mixer, as well as which controls are shown or hidden.
First, you have the options of showing the Full Track Mixer or the Small Track Mixer. While the
Full Track Mixer provides more room for buttons and controls that are large enough you don’t
have to squint to see them, the Small Track Mixer lets you have many more channel strips
onscreen at one time, for those times where you’re doing incredibly ambitious mixes.
The Small Track Mixer view
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