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About Audio Monitoring and Audio Input
The audio processing throughout DaVinci Resolve, including on the Fairlight page and
audio processing using FairlightFX plug-ins, is equally compatible with all platforms
that DaVinci Resolve runs on, including macOS, Windows, and Linux. In particular,
DaVinci Resolve supports audio monitoring and audio input using (i) the audio of a
supported Blackmagic Design I/O device such as an UltraStudio or Decklink,
(ii) your macOS, Windows, or Linux workstation’s on-board audio, (iii) any Core Audio
compatible, Windows compatible, or Advanced Linux Sound Architecture
(ALSA)-supported third-party audio interface.
Alternately, you can monitor audio with the optional Fairlight Audio Accelerator, which
is a PCI card that’s designed to handle even more channels of audio I/O monitoring
and recording, and that’s also capable of accelerating audio processing operations to
provide better performance for audio operations.
The Audio Timeline
The heart of the Fairlight page, the Audio Timeline presents the audio channels and tracks of
the currently selected timeline differently than the Edit page does, in a one-channel-per-track
format that’s optimized for audio mixing and sweetening. The Audio page Timeline cannot
be closed.
The Audio Timeline
The Fairlight page of DaVinci Resolve supports multiple audio tracks, and each audio track may
contain multiple lanes. The clips edited into the Timeline appear within each track, with the
recorded channels within each clip occupying as many lanes as that clip has available. At the
left of each track is a header area that contains a number of controls.
Audio layering in a mono audio track
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