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The mixer
Ö Linked channels have individual automation tracks.
These are completely independent, and are not affected
by the Link function.
The Window submenu
The Mixer context menu, opened by right-clicking anywhere
on the Mixer window background, provides the Window
submenu. Its options are handy for quickly switching to an-
other open mixer window, showing/hiding the different
mixer panes etc. It contains the following options:
• Show Routing View
Allows you to show/hide the topmost section of the mixer which contains
the input/output routing settings.
• Show Extended View
Allows you to show/hide the middle section of the mixer, where you can
display different settings for the channels (EQs, Send effects, etc.).
• Next Mixer
This displays the next mixer window (if you have several mixer windows
open).
Saving mixer settings
It is possible to save complete mixer settings for all or all
selected audio-related channels in the mixer. These can
later be loaded into any project. Channel settings are saved
as mixer settings files. These have the file extension “.vmx”.
Right-clicking somewhere in the mixer panel or in the
Channel Settings window brings up the context menu
where the following Save options can be found:
• “Save Selected Channels” will save all channel settings
for the selected channels.
Input/output routings are not saved.
• “Save All Mixer Settings” saves all channel settings for
all channels.
When you select any of the above options, a standard file
dialog opens where you can select a name and storage lo-
cation on your disk for the file.
Loading mixer settings
Loading Selected Channels
To load mixer settings saved for selected channels, pro-
ceed as follows:
1. Select the same number of channels in the new project
to match the number of channels you saved settings for in
the previous project.
For example, if you saved settings for six channels, select six channels in
the mixer.
• Mixer settings will be applied in the same order as they
were in the mixer.
Thus, if you save settings from channels 4, 6 and 8 and apply these set-
tings to channels 1, 2 and 3, the settings saved for channel 4 would be
applied to channel 1, the settings saved for channel 6 to channel 2 and
so on.
2. Right-click the mixer panel to open the context menu,
and select “Load Selected Channels”.
A standard file dialog appears, where you can locate the saved file.
3. Select the file and click “Open”.
The channel settings are applied to the selected channels.
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Saving mixer settings does not apply to MIDI chan-
nels in the mixer – only audio-related channels
(group, audio, instrument, effect return, VSTi and Re-
Wire) are saved with this function!
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Loading mixer settings does not apply to MIDI chan-
nels in the mixer – only audio-related channels (group,
audio, instrument, effect return, VSTi and ReWire) are
saved and can be loaded with this function!
!
If you choose to apply mixer settings to fewer chan-
nels than you saved, the order of the saved channels
in the mixer applies – i.e. the saved channels that are
“left over” and not applied will be the channels with
the highest channel numbers (or furthest to the right
in the mixer).