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The mixer
Initialize Channel and Reset Mixer
The Initialize Channel button can be found in the lower
part of the Control Strip section in the Channel Settings
window (if this section is not shown in the Channel Set-
tings window, open the context menu and select “Control
Strip” on the Customize View submenu). Initialize Channel
resets the selected channel to the default settings.
Similarly, the mixer common panel holds a Reset Mixer/
Reset Channels button – when you click this, you will be
asked whether you want to reset all channels or just the
selected channels.
The default settings are:
• All EQ, Insert and Send effect settings are deactivated and re-
set.
• Solo/Mute is deactivated.
• The fader is set to 0dB.
• Pan is set to center position.
Using group channels
You can route the outputs from multiple audio channels to
a group. This enables you to control the channel levels us-
ing one fader, apply the same effects and equalization to all
of them etc. To create a group channel, proceed as follows:
1. Select Add Track from the Project menu and select
“Group Channel” from the submenu that appears.
2. Select the desired channel configuration and click OK.
A group channel track is added to the Track list and a corresponding
group channel strip is added to the mixer. By default the first group chan-
nel strip is labeled “Group 1”, but you can rename it just like any channel
in the mixer.
3. Pull down the Output Routing pop-up for a channel
you want to route to the group channel, and select the
group channel.
The output of the audio channel is now redirected to the selected group.
4. Do the same for the other channels you wish to route
to the group.
Settings for group channels
The group channel strips are (almost) identical to audio
channel strips in the mixer. The descriptions of the mixer
features earlier in this chapter apply to group channels as
well. Some things to note:
• You can route the output of a group to an output bus or
to another group.
You cannot route a group to itself. Routing is done with the Output Rout-
ing pop-up menu in the Inspector (select the subtrack for the Group in
the Track list).
• There are no Input Routing pop-ups, Monitor buttons or
Record Enable buttons for group channels.
This is because inputs are never connected directly to a group.
• Solo functionality is automatically linked for channels
routed to a group and the group channel itself.
This means that if you solo a group channel, all channels routed to the
group are automatically soloed as well. Similarly, soloing a channel
routed to a group will automatically solo the group channel.
• Mute functionality depends on the setting “Group Chan-
nels: Mute Sources as well” in the Preferences (VST page).
By default, when you mute a group channel no audio will pass through
the group. However, other channels that are routed directly to that group
channel will remain unmuted. If any of those channels have aux sends
routed to other group channels, FX channels or output busses, those will
still be heard.
If the option “Group Channels: Mute Sources as well” is activated in the
Preferences (VST page), muting a group channel will cause all other
channels directly routed to it to be muted as well. Pressing mute again
will unmute the group channel and all other channels directly routed to it.
Channels that were muted prior to the group channel being muted will
not remember their mute status and will be unmuted when the group
channel is unmuted.
One application of group channels is to use them as “effect
racks” – see the chapter “Audio effects” on page 85.
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The option “Group Channels: Mute Sources as well”
does not affect how mute automation is written. Writ-
ing mute automation on a group channel only affects
the group channel and not channels routed to it.
When writing the automation, you will see the other
channels being muted when this option is activated.
However, upon playback, only the group channel will
respond to the automation.