User Manual

THE MAIN MIXER
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Fader section
The Fader section is used for controlling the level of the channel and its stereo placement in the mix. The section has
the following parameters:
About Level/Pan CV
On the back of the Programmer section of a Mix Channel or Audio Track device you will find CV inputs for the chan-
nel Level and Pan controls. These allow for automatic level and pan control from sources that output CV signals.
D Press [Tab] to flip the Rack around, then click the “Show Programmer” button to access the CV jacks.
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Parameter
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Description
Pan L/R Use this control to set the left/right position of the channel in the stereo field. [Ctrl]-click (Win) or [Cmd]-click
(Mac) the Pan knob to reset to the default “0” (center position).
Width Width will only be available on stereo channels. It allows you to control the width of the stereo field for the channel.
Normally this is fully on (value 127) which represents full stereo. By decreasing this value the stereo width is nar-
rowed. Turned fully off the channel output will be in mono.
MUTE/SOLO buttons
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Note that the Mute and Solo functions in the Main Mixer are NOT the same as Mute
and Solo of sequencer tracks (see “Muting tracks” and “Soloing tracks”).
Clicking a channel’s Mute button silences the output of that channel. Click the button again to unmute the chan-
nel.
Clicking a channel’s Solo button silences all other mixer channels, so that you only hear the soloed channel. Sev-
eral channels can be soloed at the same time, but if this is the case, note that soloed channels can’t be muted with
the Mute button. To mute one of several channels in solo mode you simply “un-solo” it. There are also Mute All
Off/Solo All Off buttons in the Master Section - see “Master Section Header”.
If you are using Output Busses (see “Output Busses”) and/or Parallel Channels (see “Parallel Channels”), the Solo
and Mute functions affect the other concerned channels in an intelligent way, see “Solo, Mute and Send FX logic”.
Channel Fader The channel fader is used to control the output level of each channel.
By adjusting the faders, you can set the desired mix (balance) between channels.
If a channel is an Output Bus (see “Output Busses”), the Fader section background is colored and the Fader knob
is red.
Channel Meter The meter is a graphical representation of the channel output level. Stereo channels have two level bars and mono
channels have one. If the signal level pushes the meter into the red, to avoid distortion try lowering either the out-
put level of the device connected to the channel device or the channel fader itself. The meter is a VU meter, taking
into account any VU offset set in the Big Meter of the Reason Hardware Device - see “The Big Meter”.
Output Bus Selector Here you can route the channel to an Output Bus (sub-mixer) instead of to the default Master Section, see “Out-
put Busses”.